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Cerebralbore101 said: Because without long term financial health a company either goes under or winds up charging more for it's goods and services.
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Except you never bothered to share your genius financial forecasting with us, oh mighty investment guru. I mean, this must be great news for you as now you can short Sony and be guaranteed mega profits, but really us mortals do like it when people "show their work" and don't just make grandiose assertions that happen to be negative on targets they feel hate for. So what is the additional sales figure on PC platform, btw? I mean, I know you are forecasting total sales decline, but coming from zero or near zero on PC it's clear that component will grow... how much, oh celestial accountant?
How does Epic deal figure into this? IMHO seems like that arrangement might lead to Epic cofinancing Sony games, and thus allow more total games some of which may be available from beginning even if others are held to console only time window. Really it seems the basis of your "sales decline" prediction is your own aversion to Sony (albeit premised on unrequited attraction), yet clearly this thread shows that isn't a common sentiment. (and if you want claim it's full of Sony fan boys, well, yeah that is Sony's Playstation audience who do buy into their ecosystem and it happens to be huge, with even the minority using PSVR being by far biggest component of total VR market). If you don't like consoles then you probably aren't Sony's target market currently, and it's not like they need to sell to every PC gamer to be successful. Grandiose claims just make you look impotent with a chip on your shoulder.
I also don't get the complaints on "now Sony has 2 bad options I don't like". Like who cares dude, the 1st is their console game business which has been the entirety or near-so of their game business for decades, that's what Sony does. So why gripe now? It's like if somebody doesn't like motorcycles and they are going to gripe at Harley Davidson releasing new model of motorcycle next year. If Sony has always made exclusive console games, why is your expectations being ruined now? Then the 2nd is if they release some game later in 3 years on PC... Not sure how this is different than all the "remaster" games that get released anyways, but again if you don't like that game don't buy it, most people aren't buying most Sony games. Plenty of people don't buy games at full price and wait longer to do so, so how is your sentiment here fundamentally different? Companies like Sony know that, which is why they drop prices in the first place, so they will eventually get there.
Lastly, I don't get the "they are following American business way". Well, yeah sure in a sense. But it seems more like the console exclusivity pattern is more tied to Japanese companies, with MS first to break from that and American companies all about multiplatform with variety of distribution. Which is done for.... bigger profits and stock prices, loved by MS just as much as Nintendo. I question how this line of thought relates to your forecast of financial woe though, because Japanese corporate management has rather bad reputation in most investment circles. Even if you assume the American model is long term (how long?) negative for a company, it's basically meaningless to say "Sony is acting American, therefore they decline" with no backing details... A general trend is not a physical law of nature. I get the impression you never really "did the work" and aren't seriously committed to your financial forecast of Sony, it's just a cheap hit to gratify your own perspective that equates your own "consumer boycott" to hypothetical mass market shift. That's called narcicism, BTW, which you can get help for.
Last edited by mutantsushi - on 30 August 2020
