How much trouble is Sony really in?

[Grand Conde]

I think the entire industry is in trouble because the cost of games are continually rising and customers are demanding cheaper entry to play them. More subscription models probably mean more AA GAAS.

Instead of getting a Game of Thrones Or Westworld, we’re gonna get Arrow and Love is Blind.

What do you see happening first, a higher price to play games, or smaller budgets?

Eh people were saying the same thing about TV, and the opposite became true.

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

Well said, you either see the vision or you don't.

It's odd to me that most don't, but foresight isn't most people strong point... nor do they really care until it's inevitable

I agree with you wholeheartedly but this one is so obvious.



There isn't anything nefarious or underhanded that they are doing. No tricks or slight of hand stuff. It's blatantly out in the open here.

 

[Half A $]

I agree with you wholeheartedly but this one is so obvious.




There isn't anything nefarious or underhanded that they are doing. No tricks or slight of hand stuff. It's blatantly out in the open here.

It’ll be another 10 years before I see some lame walking around with an Xbox controller attached to their iPhone

the “vision”

 

[Half A $]

It's like people are completely ignoring how PS5s are selling but Sony is in trouble -- lol.

*5 years time*

“Yes Sony has sold 100m playstation 5s, but are they real winners of this gen? Look how many game pass subs there are!”

Can’t wait for ms to hide their numbers behind the game pass family

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

It’ll be another 10 years before I see some lame walking around with an Xbox controller attached to their iPhone

the “vision”

Just yesterday

 

[nairdas]

Prisoner of the moment shyt.

I remember when people thought Playstation was done when Final Fantasy XIII was announced for Xbox 360

That was fukking hilarious. Definitely one of the funniest days on the internet

 

[itsyoung!!]

Sony and Nintendo wouldn’t survive putting their games on a service day one for free. NIntendo is a gaming company, they don’t have the ability to transition to services, unless their theme park is a hit like Disneyland its most likely gonna stay primarily a gaming company.

Sonys cofffers aren’t large enough either. They’ve already said that the cost of making AAA games is already taking a toll on the industry. It cost 100’s of millions of dollars to make something like TLOU or Death Stranding, or even 3rd party games like Avengers. They can’t afford to take a hit on their biggest money maker.

I honestly don’t think gamepass will be sustainable at 10 dollars a month once Microsoft start releasing AAA games on teh caliber of Sony’s titles either. It’s a great deal now because the xbox divisions last 7 years were dismal and they need to win back customers. I don’t think sony and especially nintendo are gonna jump at upping their subscription models anytime soon.

the irony of AAA games costing that much is that if you picked the top 10 games in the world right now, none of them cost a lot to make Among Us, Fortnite, PUBG, League of Legends, Valorant, Counter Strike, Call of Duty Warzone

Lets talk about Call of Duty Warzone as example, a quick made battle royal game after their last AAA title with battle royal in it flopped (compared to previous sales or active players), but it was funner than the previous call of duties for basically a decade and still more popular now than the most recent call of duty AAA release probably 1/8th of the budget of the most recent call of duty and probably has 10x the active players.

I dont get these big budgets at all. Decades of history show the most popular games are not big budget games. TLOU, Uncharted type games captures people attention for a week, then no one gives a shyt about it. Longevity is where the money is. Counter Strike is a game from 2000! DOTA is a game from 2003! Still more active than any console game.

Focus on fun and interactive and competitive gaming, throw 90% of your budget away and watch your profit soar.


hearthstone, a free to play card game from Blizzard generates $400 million a year, like $3+ billion total over its lifetime or more probably cost $2 million to make

PUBG mobile alone did $1.1 billion revenue in 2020 -- JUST THE MOBILE APP.

how much you think it cost to make that piece of shyt game

 

[Grand Conde]

So are you suggesting Sony make only MP games and drop their successful SP franchises? I mean, what is your point really breh?

 

[goatmane]

not at all

Xbox trying to buy their way onto the throne


make better games simple

 

[kaldurahm]

They not in trouble, this baseball game isn't a big deal. However, I do think they should have it on PS+ otherwise they look goofy.

But I will say this new Xbox platforms; Series Consoles and Gamepass, is one hell of a force. The biggest problem is Gamepass.

 

[kaldurahm]

Some of yall really live in a fantasy world

Xbox won't win the amount of consoles sold, but I don't think they care about that. They're trying to get as many Game Pass subscribers as possible whether it's on Xbox, PC, or mobile. If they get like 40 million+ subscriptions that's a w

 

[winb83]

Jim Ryan is really doing everything possible to destroy all the goodwill his predecessors built up. He and Phil Spencer are complete opposites.
PS3 Owners Facing Wide-Spread Problems Downloading Games Ahead of PS Store Closure

 

[Fatboi1]

Breh y’all need to chill

It’s a baseball game

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I thought it was God of War when I logged on yesterday

 

[Rekkapryde]

You're in the fantasy world if you think Sony won by default and the gen is 4 months old.

The rest of the planet does not fukk with Xbox like that. Dunno why yall can't get this thru yall Skull

 

[Champion]

I haven't seen anything alarming like the Wii U marketing or restricting used games.