The hardcore audience isn't waiting for the holidays to get a new console tho.
Holiday sales are at least 90% casuals. If you want to increase sales during that period, you need discounts more than anything else.
Sony FY2024 Q2 Earnings Announcement | OT
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The hardcore audience isn't waiting for the holidays to get a new console tho.
Holiday sales are at least 90% casuals. If you want to increase sales during that period, you need discounts more than anything else.
Actually Sony should gaming margins indeed increased a lot but that has nothing to do with PC…
These are the reasons…
- (+) Improvement in hardware profitability
- (+) Impact of increase in sales of non-first-party game software titles
- (+) Impact of increase in sales from network services
Imagine the PS6 generation where players know PS has no exclusive & Nintendo blurring the line w Switch 2 + more 3rd party & a double down on 1st party Nintendo games.
This isn’t even taking account PS continuing to release pc port faster or increasing/diminishing the platform/storefront in another level & the landscape. Do more 3rd party focus on PC/Steam & Nintendo compared to PS does Nintendo partners w 3rd party publisher & make 3rd party have exclusive Nintendo ip benefits for Nintendo console users like they did back in the PS2-PS3 era, I think that possibility is not farfetch to further differentiate its own platform & 3rd party to competitors.
Nope.
Hardware cost decrease.
3rd-party game sales increase.
Network sales increase.
there's no profit growth driven by PC ports, specifically for singleplayer titles, the only thing PC ports serve is to devalue the console, they're barely paying for the ports to be made with what they make from these sales
gonna be really interesting to watch PS6 sales closely, they won't have a new GTA title to lean on
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Fiscal year to date they've made 341 million USD on software from other platforms...
That's more than enough to fund a major AAA title like Spider-Man... and it's only half the year...
some are, specially with the lack of exclusives from sony this generation, they're waiting for a PS5 only game like Spiderman 2 that make them jump from PS4 to PS5, it may not seem relevant to you, but a lot of people purchase consoles to play games only avaliable in the console
Imagine a generation where the Switch 2 doesn't have the same impact as the original (DS>3DS or Wii>Wii U) or Nintendo for whatever reason ports their games to PC. The reactions on this site would be funny to see.
where's the specific data? i want to see how much of these 341M are coming from live services and how much is coming from singleplayer ports, cause they're the issue here for the console health, not the live service titles
Discount or exclusive games in a variety of diverse genres to promote/bundle & or give exclusive cosmetics to get existing fans to re buy a another console for that exclusive cosmetic that they be drawn to
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Objectively a fantastic year given the lack of big AAA franchise games from 1st party.
Looks like the PS5 hardware is finally hitting a profit. They'll be able to discount the PS pretty heavily this holiday season due to offsetting profit from the PS5 Pro.
People were convinced this was going to be a bad year for them and here we have it...
decrease in sales for 1st party games despite releasing Horizon Forbidden West and Ghost Of Tsushima on PC? ouch i thought PC were a pillar of growth for them
Dude, you specifically mentioned the holidays. Yes some hardcore gamers are waiting for exclusives to jump over but that has nothing to do with the holidays.
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I think it's safe to assume the vast majority of that is coming from Helldivers 2 and Destiny 2, but healthy contribution over time from the PC catalog that continues to sell throughout the year. It's consistent cash flow.
You say the issue here is for console health, but this latest update reflects that MAUs are still up and they're well on pace to hit their forecast if not exceed it. Exceeding it would put them beyond the PS4 LTD.
This is a bad report for you and your dooming.