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Ji99saw on 28 September 2012
Dgc1808 said:
Ji99saw said:
Jay520 said:
DaRev said:
Jay520 said:

PlayStation Home Actually Makes a Profit

That article is the most misleading bunch of BS I ever saw. Almost as bad as asking Sony themselves if Home was a failure. I wouldn't even waste my time on that article.


its not the article that matters. Its the fact that Sony themselves came out and stated that Hone was profitable. Can you demonstrate evidence more convincing than Sony's own words ? Or are you just basing your claim on a hunch.

O.T. True but they also said that the Vita is selling within expectations and that they are fixing their T.v. devision only to turn around and create a 25,000 4k t.v so I usually take what a large corporations say with a grain of salt. O.P. could very well be profitable how much Idk

Vita selling with expectations - What were the expectations in question?
They're fixing their t.v. division - Do they know what needs to be done?

"With numbers like we have, it goes without saying that Home has been a huge success for our company, something that we have been very proud of," - There's NO question you can raise against this. They said point blank that it's a success and they're proud of it.  

(and your comment regarding 4k means nothing. A few 4k models doesn't mean that they'll be producing nothing but 4k tv model... It's perfectly fine to provide both enthusiast products on a small scale and mass consumer products on a large scale. It's expected of a company like SONY.)


You're right I'm Sorry I just assumed Sony expectations of the Vita was a little bit higher than selling like complete crap. And as far as their T.V. divisions I would hope they would know what needs to be done to fix them?. And yes I think $25,000 t.v for a company that is known to have higher prices than the competition to release an even more expensive one is not heading in the right direction.



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Turkish on 28 September 2012
DaRev said:
Turkish said:
DaRev said:
Jay520 said:

PlayStation Home Actually Makes a Profit

That article is the most misleading bunch of BS I ever saw. Almost as bad as asking Sony themselves if Home was a failure. I wouldn't even waste my time on that article.


Care to explain why you think its bullshit?  lol

I really don't care to, because it should be obvious why the article is BS. But I think I have 5 min of my life to waste - better here than on Home.

1) The article has done no indipendent research to find out whether Home really is profitable or the biggest Sony flop ever. The article instead relies on a quote from the SONY HOME DIRECTOR! I mean that is like asking Al-Qaeda if they are a terrorist organisation - you're always going to get a biased view. So, of course the director of Home is going to say only good things about his product.

Plus I trust nothng that comes out of Sony themselves, like the PS3 having 4k resolution and 2 HDMI ports lol Or that the Vita is a succes, after having piss poor launch sales and still can't catch itself? Nothing out of Sony is the truth.

2) Then the guy give some random junk and says "We've released over 5,000 virtual items on the platform, and we know that once those items reach maturity, they are profitable. So you see us creating a tremendous amount of virtual items, because it is such a high margin business for us to be in." Nowhere in that load monkey spin did the guy say they sold anything. What does he mean by "reach maturity", is he talking about teenagers, stocks, apples, breasts, what? Did they ever reach maturity? Plus since when does being in a "high margin busineess" equate to you making any money or being profitable? This just a load of speculative BS. Plus who says that selling trinkets in Home is a high margin business? Did Donald Trump say so, or maybe Warren Buffett?

Pure Sony spin and BS and that is why I think the whole article is BS.


LOL! Are you serious? So if you think Sony talks bullshit, do you also say that whenever Reggie opens his mouth, he talks bullshit? If you don't trust anything that comes out of Sony, well thats your problem. Especially if the reason is a statement made 7 years ago before this gen even started.


Home is definetly profitable, if it wasn't they wouldve closed the servers by now. In fact, Home gets bigger and bigger, more items are added constantly. Not to mention its still in beta. Once PS4 comes out it will be out of beta and become even bigger.

It seems to me the problem is your mindset, you talk nonsense about Sony in general. So before pointing your finger at someone else and call his claim bullshit, come with your facts that refute his arguments. You didn't, I don't need to waste my time with you.



fauzman on 28 September 2012

It has clearly been successful, recently they revamped the whole system and added different areas and tasks to do and from what I understand a lot of devs have something going on. I have been to a lot of the spaces Batman AA, played a couple of resistance games, gone to R&C space, uncharted games, got a miniangel from some task/mini game etc. There is tons to do but the problem is that home is more designed for social action and if you dont have anyone you know using it or going to it (like me) than its not as interesting. Also, I dont think that sony have done enough to get people to try it out. There is no relevance for the characters you create, or the home spaces/trophies/costumes outside of the home and I think this has meant people havent bothered to try it. I would love to see sony take a page out of MS's book (ironic considering the avatar system MS has is a reply to the PS Home) and have your home avatars showing on psn or your trophies as your avatar or have more of an in-game relevance even if only for sony exclusive 1st-person titles.



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