PlayStation can't compete anymore. And SIE/Jim Ryan knows this. This is the reason why Jim Ryan is preparing SIE and PlayStation to become a 3rd party publisher, releasing PlayStation games on PC, Mobile, next-gen Switch and Xbox.
No but they are going 3rd party soon.
Which makes sense. Sony doesn't have the money or talent to compete with today's Microsoft and Nintendo.
And Jim Ryan realized this and started the "change".
Let me see:
- PlayStation has the biggest console active user base
- PlayStation is the console maker that generates more revenue, more than any console maker ever did
- PlayStation 5 is supply constrained but in some months will start to solve it going back to be the (launch aligned) fastest selling ever console
- PlayStation is the top selling platfom for AAA games and most big 3rd parties
- PlayStation is the console with the biggest amount of exclusives, particularly the big ones
- PlayStation has the biggest and most successful game sub for consoles
- PlayStatioin is the console maker that releases more super successful exclusive new IPs every generation
- PlayStation has the only console VR, which will release a new hardware soon
- PlayStation is growing the headcount of internal development teams and buying new ones to increase the amount of PS exclusives they release, which according to Ryan will be more than they ever had
- Their first party games sell better and are more awarded than ever did
- They are so confident with the direct competition spending almost $100B in acquisitions during the recent years that their most similar move to a reaction to compete in consoles so far has been to buy a new mobile studio with 25 persons and rise the price or their console. Even the biggest console related acquisition they did, kept is as multiplatfom
- Bungie, like Aniplex, will continue making multiplatform games, and they will increase their efforts in mobile (something any big publisher or console maker does) but PS Studios will continue releasing their games in PS only (with MLB as exception because they don't own it). And will only port to PC a handful old games per year, less titles than the brand new ones they'll release these years for PS
- The only console that could handle their games in terms or horsepower has only like half of the userbase than PS and a portion of them already have a PS, so there isn't a lot of business for them there.
- The other console sells like a third less games per year than PS, doesn't have enough horsepower to run most of its games and most of the games sold per it are 1st party (the top 10 best selling Nintendo games for Switch sold 30% of the total Switch game sold), so there's not a lot of business for Sony there.
- During years SIE has been increasing their profit, revenue and investments in pretty much all areas, so they will continue growing.
- Switch will enter its sales sunset stage soon since it already passed its yearly sales peak and Xbox is more focused on its game rental service and releasing all their games in PC and there day one than in supporting its console.
But "they can't compete" and "will go 3rd party". What a joke. There is absolutely no reason for them to stop making consoles or go 3rd party at all and obviously won't do it.
The PS5 will be Sony's last console.
Fake news. They confirmed that there will be a PS6 and that they are working on it.
They are right now the most successul console maker in gaming history and their console is the main revenue source of their company. They won't quit from being a console maker. They are also growing their investment, revenue and profit pretty much in every area, so they will keep growing. Their console market share is expected to grow.
You do realise they said "Switch is a handheld and performs on par as a Nintendo handheld always has."
- DS - 154M units
- Gameboy and GB color - 118M units
- GB Advance - 81M units
So yeah, the Switch is performing on par with other handheld Nintendo consoles.
It is generous to combine GB and GBC sales (as Nintendo does) when they are different generations. GBC had substantially more powerful hardware and hundreds of exclusive games.
The list misses their most recent one: 3DS - 75.94M units.
As expected here is PlayStation's first mobile studio for Sony's 3rd party future.
Sony will acquire a few more no-name studios for a few dollars, while Microsoft will go after their third publisher soon.
Nintendo and MS have a bigger presence in mobile gaming than Sony. According to you they are 3rd party too?
It started with MLB The Show, it will continue with Destiny 2, Matter and all the other 10+ Live-Service games.
Sony realized that MS is serious now.
Fake news. They said they'll keep Bungie multiplatform, and that made a new PS Studios Mobile Division to make mobile games, but their console PS Studios teams will continue focused making PS only games, with some external (and now Nixxes internal) teams porting a handful old games to PC per year.
MLB is a exception because Sony doesn't own this IP and the IP owner decided to publish it in other consoles.
www.videogameschronicle.com
they only show total profits of the entire company, and those are plenty.
