| Evilms said:
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PS5 not only has the highest operation profit, but the second-best operation income-to-sales ratio. PS1 was a healthy business, but during PS2 it was clear they were trying to keep prices as low as possible in a way to remove competition from the market. It worked for SEGA, so why not chase the other competitors?
Their issue was taking their win for granted during the PS3 era, huge misstep here
PS4 was a healthy business, but they needed to recover consumers goodwill, so they kept prices for software and hardware as low as possible, but at least enough to break even. The system, however, benefited from both MS and Nintendo dropping the ball hard, which increased the user base and consumer spending
PS5 is the era where they are targeting healthier profit margins. Their hardware is not sold at a loss, and their software is not getting insane discounts like they were used to. While I'm more of a fan of the PS4 era, I'm already used to being ripped off by consoles prices since Nintendo already did the same during the Switch era, and Sony is simply following suit
