Davy said:
Sony has a very pathetic line up of first party Games for a 5 year duration, they won't miss 10% of their base, Especially when you have to pay 1500$ to buy a gaming pc.
Playstation 5 Exclusives on PC In 5 years : Stellar BladeMarvel's Spider-Man 2Horizon Forbidden WestReturnal God of War RagnarökRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart |
You don't need to spend $1500 for a gaming PC. PC's came in all shapes, sizes and price.
My "Gaming Laptop" with a Geforce RTX 4060 was under $900 AUD.
Price of a PS5 Slim? $830 with a disc drive. $1200 for the PS5 Pro.
Cerebralbore101 said:
You are entirely missing the point here. It's not PC gamers that aren't buying PS5, but PS5 and former Xbox customers that are moving to PC. That's where the loss is from. |
No. You are missing the point. There is no guarantee those gamers would buy a console in the first place anyway.
As for Microsoft... They haven't found high levels of success on PC either, but enough to stem the flow of lost users and keep growing their subscriptions.
PC Gamers tend to like PC games, I know... It's a crazy concept.
Microsoft and Sony are also competing against themselves... I.E. The Xbox One and Playstation 4, there are still 10's of millions of gamers using last-generation devices because they still play their games just fine. I.E. Minecraft, GTA 5, Roblox, Fortnite, Warzone and other "service" games.
Why spend $800 AUD on a new device to keep playing the same games?
Cerebralbore101 said:
Highest ever revenues and profits is a temporary result of cutting down the apple orchard to sell firewood. Long term they are going to lose money. Also the ridiculous profitability of microtransactions is what is driving this profit not PC ports. You can pay a dev 3K to make a $10 skin and then sell that skin to 10,000 people for a tidy profit of 100,000 or 3,300%. |
There is no evidence they are going to "lose money". In-fact the evidence showcases the opposite. - Sony has consecutively posted higher profits and revenues with every console generation.
We need to remember the cost of PC ports is insignificant to the revenues they bring in.
$700~ million in revenue for 3 easy ports? That would make any company very happy.
Considering the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series is "more of the same" but at a higher price? Yes and no.
But also... Their competitor has seen a boost in sales... Nintendo exists in the market as well. Everyone forgets how much the Switch has dominated sales.
Davy said:
Sony has a very pathetic line up of first party Games for a 5 year duration, they won't miss 10% of their base, Especially when you have to pay 1500$ to buy a gaming pc.
Playstation 5 Exclusives on PC In 5 years : Stellar BladeMarvel's Spider-Man 2Horizon Forbidden WestReturnal God of War RagnarökRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart |
My RTX 4060 notebook will run every modern game... And definitely all the PS5 ports.
I don't think console gamers realize they don't need to spend thousands for a decent rig, you can easily come at a lower price than the PS5 if you are happy with 720P, which some people actually are.