"However, Sony has revised its PS5 sales forecast for the current financial year down, from its lofty target of 25 million consoles sold to 21 million. This despite a year-on-year increase in PS5 sales for the holiday 2023 quarter, from 7.1 million sold to 8.2 million."
So they expect to miss their sales target by about 4 million units all the while the competition is in free fall and can't move units at all. And the takeaway from that is: more multi-platform for higher margins? How about turning those Series owners and Xbox One refugee's into PlayStation owners? They suddenly didn't disappear from the gaming space - it's a zero sum equation always - so who's getting them in droves? Nintendo? PC?
How about selling 20-30m more consoles than PS4? "Direct competitor" Xbox is extremely weak and on the way out? What's the hold up?
What's holding the rocket trajectory? Maybe the so called non-competitor platforms? PC/Nintendo etc....? Maybe they do compete? Maybe it's a zero sum competition and not rainbows and ponies?
I want to say it's sad but this trainwreck in the making is just too early in the making for the sort of clowning it deserves. It took Xbox, with MS coffers, over a decade + for the failure to fully materialize into a coherent and undeniable catastrophe. It will definitely take that and longer for the PlayStation ship to fully come to that state, assuming no course corrections mid way for life-extensions. I will say the tone of the corporate slaves who simp for Sony is very temperate based on these news. What's the problem? The news don't tuck nicely into a narrative? Of course. That's what happens when your arguments lack a logical base, and are merely based on numbers on a spreadsheet aka the moment the numbers don't support the "narrative" you're left naked - too predictable, too simplistic, for simplistic brains.
You can't fix stupid. Knowing how corporate slaves behave, this is just a bump in the "narrative" road, whose only inconvenience is time, until the next news cycle. After all, it's not about intellectually honest discussion. Never was.
This industry has seen poor corporate leadership get it wrong time and again - sinking good things. Nintendo has fucked up several times, Sega fucked up royally and beyond repair, Sony mildly fucked up, and MS with Xbox has royally fucked up (the trainwreck has been fascinating to watch for such a "prestigious company"). Bottomline: The "super intelligent" execs who should know what they're doing, "are experts by their job title", and get paid to perform don't always know what the fuck they're doing and get the market wrong all the fucking time - that is the only stone cold hard fact. Won't stop corporate simps from appealing to authority in their arguments and being unoriginal bots online....
Stay nail biting for a day.... as a slave should.
sensationalism at its best. With that said this is definitely making them release a pro to revitalize sales.
