There is no legitimate business reason for Sony to continue producing games on disc if it only represent 2% of revenue at this point. The evolution was inevitable.
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| trunkswd said: If the last 2 quarters are down a similar amount to the June quarter, -36% year-on-year, that would be 2.6M for the September quarter and 5.1M for December quarter. That would bring lifetime shipment figures to 103 million. If it is down more like the March quarter, -46% year-on-year, that would be 2.2M for the September quarter and 4.3M for December quarter. That would bring lifetime shipment figures to 101.8 million. If somehow numbers are far worse than any of us would expect and are down 60%, that would be 1.6M for the September quarter and 3.2M for December quarter. That would bring lifetime shipment figures to 100.1 million. Shipment figures would have to be down by over 60% for the second half of the year for it to miss 100 million at the end of December. |
Yeah with GTAVI coming I don't see any scenario PS5 misses 100M shipped. Whether it hits that many sold, that's the more interesting question... though I'd be surprised if it doesn't succeed.
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| Signalstar said: There is no legitimate business reason for Sony to continue producing games on disc if it only represent 2% of revenue at this point. The evolution was inevitable. |
Can you point to where you are getting this 2% figure from? I'm genuinely just asking b/c I'm too lazy to do all the research and calculations myself lol.
| Signalstar said: There is no legitimate business reason for Sony to continue producing games on disc if it only represent 2% of revenue at this point. The evolution was inevitable. |
There is only noo reason at all to not make a few mill fans happy and keep physical around they are NOT losing money on it...stop defending them there not your friend.
firebush03 said:
Can you point to where you are getting this 2% figure from? I'm genuinely just asking b/c I'm too lazy to do all the research and calculations myself lol. |
Your laziness is not my problem. Just read some of the earlier posts in this thread for your sake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1gWECYYOSo
Please Watch/Share this video so it gets shown in Hollywood.
I just don't get why Sony doesn't want to make extra money with the physical media purists. Give the PS6 an external disc drive and sell first party single-player games on disc for additional $20/Euro 20, compared to the digital versions. Third parties can do the same. I'm sure the purists will glady buy the external disc drive and pay the additional $20/Euro 20 to own a disc.
Sony never had a passion for gaming culture. In my opinion that's their biggest flaw!
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| Fight-the-Streets said: I just don't get why Sony doesn't want to make extra money with the physical media purists. Give the PS6 an external disc drive and sell first pary single-player games on disc for additional $20/Euro 20, compared to the digital versions. Third parties can do the same. I'm sure the purists will glady buy the external disc drive and pay the additional $20/Euro 20 to own a disc. |
That does make sense to do. Xbox 360 had an HD-DVD external add-on. Do something like that. Just make the physical edition expensive enough to make up the difference in cost so Sony makes the same amount with them as digital versions.
I do wonder if Xbox will see the backlash and at least have a external blu-ray drive add-on to get a win. Even if there are very few physical games available on Project Helix. At least it can be used for backwards compatibility and playing movies/tv shows.
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trunkswd said:
That does make sense to do. Xbox 360 had an HD-DVD external add-on. Do something like that. Just make the physical edition expensive enough to make up the difference in cost so Sony makes the same amount with them as digital versions. I do wonder if Xbox will see the backlash and at least have a external blu-ray drive add-on to get a win. Even if there are very few physical games available on Project Helix. At least it can be used for backwards compatibility and playing movies/tv shows. |
I feel like the chance of them selling some sort of exteranl drive of some type is nearly at 100% but I'm not sure about doing first party on discs. I still contend that the main issue is the handheld. In my thread I created on the matter I got a lot of interesting ideas about how this could be mitigated. So far the biggest idea is some kind of PS GKC or SSD Key Card. But the will release some kind of external drive for the PS6 and handheld dock... for sure.
I know this is a PlayStation topic, but are there any predictions for Switch and Switch 2 Q1 shipments?
| CosmicSex said: I know this is a PlayStation topic, but are there any predictions for Switch and Switch 2 Q1 shipments? |
Thursday for official numbers
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