| Cerebralbore101 said: Revenue and concurrent players are both meaningless metrics that CEOs love to cite. At the end of the day profit and copies sold are all that matters. Sony is just committing the Texas sharpshooter fallacy here. |
Revenue, concurrent, and active players are key metrics for gauging popularity. Profitability is a metric for gauging success. Popularity is not meaningless.
Playstation is a massive business. It dominates in dollar sales, software sales, f2p, and even services (where only GamePass competes). The fact that Playstation continues to sell 300 million traditional software annually and make the equivalent of that from microtransactions is actually insane. This is before counting "free game downloads" through Playstation Plus which constitutes 14% of total revenue (or around $4.4 billion).
Unlike GamePass, the money Sony makes through Playstation Plus Isn't damaging their traditional software model. Software sales and f2p remain absolutely huge on Playstation.
