PlayStation Q1 FY2023 3.3 million PS5 sold

[Eternal_Wings]

Posted in Acquisitions Thread but again:


PlayStation is Sony biggest money maker by far. There is no way in hell Sony will abandon this. Sony may be cheap sometimes but if it’s required to spend big cash to protect their business, they will do so.
Doom & Gloom Mongers should really stop with this PlayStation is dying preaching.
Hence why Hiroki Totoki said they will acquire IPs, one day after FTC PI case was denied.

 

[Remember_Spinal]

Mochizuki Should do the xbox shill thing, where he changes up and says something super positive about playstation or a playstation exclusive one quarter in order to make people believe he’s actually impartial, its starting to look bad.

 

[Darth Vader]

I'm not liking what I'm seeing, especially what's on the following document.

https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/23q1_supplement.pdf

• They are not providing PSVR2 hardware sales. Going by revenue, it seems like it was an absolute failure
• They did not provide a PS Plus subscription update, first time since I remember reading these
• 3.3M consoles sold in Q1 is quite frankly insufficient for a 25M sale target FY. The recent discounts probably point to them knowing they'll have trouble hitting this number (as well as wanting to get rid of stock ahead of the PS5 Slim)

Also, not sure if anybody bothered to check, but Sony is already expecting changes in the release of first-party games:

Game & Network Services Segment (G&NS Segment)

OI: Remains unchanged from April forecast
/ Adjusted OIBDA: 10 bln yen (3%) upward revision
·(+) Impact of increase in sales of non-first-party titles including add-on content
·(+) Decrease in costs*3
·(ー) Deterioration in profitability of PlayStation®5 hardware mainly due to
changes in promotions by geographic region and the sales channel mix
·(ー) Impact of changes in the launch dates of a portion of first-party titles

Make your own conclusions, especially around PS+ numbers missing and changes to their first-party title releases causing a negative impact, meaning there were already delays, probably related to Hermen and Jim sticking every single A team on shitty live-service kiddy games.

 

[arvfab]

Does Bungie have an own report or how comes I didn't see (or maybe I missed it?) any impact on revenue/profit?

Posted in Acquisitions Thread but again:


PlayStation is Sony biggest money maker by far. There is no way in hell Sony will abandon this. Sony may be cheap sometimes but if it’s required to spend big cash to protect their business, they will do so.
Doom & Gloom Mongers should really stop with this PlayStation is dying preaching.
Hence why Hiroki Totoki said they will acquire IPs, one day after FTC PI case was denied.

And aren't Mobile Games revenue reported in the Music group?

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Interesting... Only game in that list they bothered to mention a PC release is Horizon.

How bad are the other games selling on PC?

 

[Puff]

Also, not sure if anybody bothered to check, but Sony is already expecting changes in the release of first-party games

·(ー) Impact of changes in the launch dates of a portion of first-party titles

That's what happens when you buy cheap junk Studios

 

[Darth Vader]

That's what happens when you buy cheap junk Studios

It has nothing to do with that. TLOU Online is pretty much in Dev Hell, and they are not a cheap studio. This is the result of shitty leadership.

 

[Killer_Sakoman]

I'm not liking what I'm seeing, especially what's on the following document.

https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/23q1_supplement.pdf

• They are not providing PSVR2 hardware sales. Going by revenue, it seems like it was an absolute failure
• They did not provide a PS Plus subscription update, first time since I remember reading these
• 3.3M consoles sold in Q1 is quite frankly insufficient for a 25M sale target FY. The recent discounts probably point to them knowing they'll have trouble hitting this number (as well as wanting to get rid of stock ahead of the PS5 Slim)

Also, not sure if anybody bothered to check, but Sony is already expecting changes in the release of first-party games:



Make your own conclusions, especially around PS+ numbers missing and changes to their first-party title releases causing a negative impact, meaning there were already delays, probably related to Hermen and Jim sticking every single A team on shitty live-service kiddy games.

When you port your key games to PC and focus on GaaS, less people will buy your products, simply because the 105 millions who got PS4 did not buy it for shitty games otherwise they would've got a xbox.

 

[ksdixon]

See this is the problem with Sony. Why are they wasting money purchasing no-name mobile studios, when Sony Music/Pictures/Crunchyroll or whomever have some mobile studios already pumping out money. All the mobile games developers should be housed together, under PS Studios with mobile games being a sub-section of gaming, and cross promoting with the media arms.

 

[nongkris]

I'm not liking what I'm seeing, especially what's on the following document.

https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/23q1_supplement.pdf

• They are not providing PSVR2 hardware sales. Going by revenue, it seems like it was an absolute failure
• They did not provide a PS Plus subscription update, first time since I remember reading these
• 3.3M consoles sold in Q1 is quite frankly insufficient for a 25M sale target FY. The recent discounts probably point to them knowing they'll have trouble hitting this number (as well as wanting to get rid of stock ahead of the PS5 Slim)

Also, not sure if anybody bothered to check, but Sony is already expecting changes in the release of first-party games:



Make your own conclusions, especially around PS+ numbers missing and changes to their first-party title releases causing a negative impact, meaning there were already delays, probably related to Hermen and Jim sticking every single A team on shitty live-service kiddy games.

yep, these are signs of things to come under their leadership. first party delays after an already barren two years, and missing sales targets due to it. PS Plus subscriptions i'm not so worried about since that numbers always falls and rises to around 50 million, but i got these numbers from another forum

- 47.4 million PS+ subs
- 108 million MAU on PSN

 

[Darth Vader]

i got these numbers from another forum

- 47.4 million PS+ subs
- 108 million MAU on PSN

Those numbers for PS+ pertain to Q4 2022. They haven't provided Q1 2023 numbers, unless I missed something.

 

[Zeno]

I'm not liking what I'm seeing, especially what's on the following document.

https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/23q1_supplement.pdf

• They are not providing PSVR2 hardware sales. Going by revenue, it seems like it was an absolute failure
• They did not provide a PS Plus subscription update, first time since I remember reading these
• 3.3M consoles sold in Q1 is quite frankly insufficient for a 25M sale target FY. The recent discounts probably point to them knowing they'll have trouble hitting this number (as well as wanting to get rid of stock ahead of the PS5 Slim)

Also, not sure if anybody bothered to check, but Sony is already expecting changes in the release of first-party games:



Make your own conclusions, especially around PS+ numbers missing and changes to their first-party title releases causing a negative impact, meaning there were already delays, probably related to Hermen and Jim sticking every single A team on shitty live-service kiddy games.

The reason for Sony not disclosing PS Plus subscription numbers could also be because Microsoft replaced Xbox Live Gold with Game Pass and will probably disclose the Game Pass numbers (that includes the PC subscriptions) in the future, making them look better than the PS Plus numbers.

Make your own conclusions, especially around PS+ numbers missing and changes to their first-party title releases causing a negative impact, meaning there were already delays, probably related to Hermen and Jim sticking every single A team on shitty live-service kiddy games.

I agree that it seems like Hermen and Jim are pushing heavily for live-service games. But let's not kid ourselves, live-service games are and will keep being an important pillar for gaming. So I understand why they focus on that.
We will have to wait and see how it will turn out, also now that Bungie is involved.

Is it a good idea to push studios like Naughty Dog and Guerilla Games to develop these live-service games? Probably not, but the developments started before the aquisition of Bungie and we also saw reports that Naughty Dog is scaling back the development on Factions. And besides that, do we have other studios of Sony that are shifting to live-service, besides Guerilla Games?

I don't agree with the assumption that the leadership is bad. At least it's to soon to say. If renowned studios like Santa Monica Studio, Insomniac Games, Sucker Punch, Naughty Dog or Guerilla Games begin to deliver underperforming live-service games at the cost of high quality single player games, then I would agree with the assumption.

 

[Darth Vader]

The reason for Sony not disclosing PS Plus subscription numbers could also be because Microsoft replaced Xbox Live Gold with Game Pass and will probably disclose the Game Pass numbers (that includes the PC subscriptions) in the future, making them look better than the PS Plus numbers.

Excuses. They were transparent until now. Not revealing numbers is basically MS' tactic to obfuscate how much they are failing.

I agree that it seems like Hermen and Jim are pushing heavily for live-service games. But let's not kid ourselves, live-service games are and will keep being an important pillar for gaming. So I understand why they focus on that.

And I respect this, however, releasing 3 or 4 live-service games per year will only lead to cannibalisation and to studios not focusing on what they do best.

I don't agree with the assumption that the leadership is bad. At least it's to soon to say. If renowned studios like Santa Monica Studio, Insomniac Games, Sucker Punch, Naughty Dog or Guerilla Games begin to deliver underperforming live-service games at the cost of high quality single player games, then I would agree with the assumption.

Those studios should not be focused on live-service games in the first place.

 

[Nhomnhom]

Posted in Acquisitions Thread but again:


PlayStation is Sony biggest money maker by far. There is no way in hell Sony will abandon this. Sony may be cheap sometimes but if it’s required to spend big cash to protect their business, they will do so.
Doom & Gloom Mongers should really stop with this PlayStation is dying preaching.
Hence why Hiroki Totoki said they will acquire IPs, one day after FTC PI case was denied.

Once they do something we'll have reason to stop. As of right now it just looks like they are milking their positions in consoles as much as they can while trying to pivot to GaaS/PC/Mobile/Cloud since those are the areas where they are actually investing in.

If you are so confident in Sony direction why do you care about a few doomers expressing their concerns? Sony clearly hasn't cared about controlling the narrative since 2019.

PlayStation is acting a lot like 2015ish Xbox, when MS completely lost confidence in consoles and stoped caring about their core audience.

Lack of support for PSVR2, resources spent on PC flops, pivot to GaaS/Mobile, dormant IPs, no answer to MS taking games away from PlayStation, terrible communication and fan engagement. PS5 itself, PS4 games and Insomniac are doing all the heavylifting.

 

[Entropi]

It seems like PS had a good quarter, while almost anyone else’s wasn’t that good (Except Nintendo, of course)

 

[FatKaz]

The big issue is convincing people to upgrade.

There are still a shit ton of ps4 owners who won't upgrade because there is too many devs still supporting the outdated potatoe last gen consoles.

We need a huge push to current gen and hopefully the new revision is priced well enough and spiderman 2 is enough to get people to move on alot quicker.

 

[JAHGamer]

Excuses. They were transparent until now. Not revealing numbers is basically MS' tactic to obfuscate how much they are failing.

I told people Jim/Hermen have no idea what they’re doing and PlayStation is slowly turning into Xbox 2.0

 

[ethomaz]

Great numbers overall but I didnt realize Bloodborne has only sold 1 million units, total?

It sold something between 2 and 3 million.
That was what Souls games sold on PS before Elden Ring.

 

[ethomaz]

What's the point of that software chart. I am pretty sure they've announced over 15m for Uncharted 4 and 20m for Spiderman

It just a list of the official shared number by Sony.
It existed in previous earnings documents.

That means only public Sony PR about sales are listed there… data shared by the Studio not.

 

[On Demand]

Y’all whining already?

 

[Darth Vader]

Y’all whining already?

No, people are discussing these numbers. Just because people are both demanding and not sycophants like Xbox cultists, doesn't mean they're whining.