last time i turned my ps5 on was for rebirth - and i turned it off again for good the second i heard red13's voice
Console hardware sales are in a really bad place right now
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Ps3 was criticized for having no games the first 3 years of its life. It only sold well from 2009 onwards.
Ps4 did really well and had lots of great games and the ps5 has sold remarkably considering the pricing and supply issues. So everything your saying is incorrectly
Scottie Drippin
Should Never Mention Me
Kids in working class families do not have the latest video game systems. This is why Fortnite Minecraft, Among Us type games are the biggest games in the world.
Khalil's_Black_Excellence
The King of Fighters
Yeah, possessive in owning Xbox stans...and games.Cause my phone thinks Sony Stan’s are possessive
Cool story bro
And dudes wonder why “Exclusives” are dying.
I been saying it for years, the console market peaked a long time ago.
Only way to combat rising dev/hardware costs is to squeeze more money out of each individual user through DLC, Microtransactions, Remakes, subscriptions, etc.
That was working for a while but they have now maxed out what they can squeeze out of each individual, and the unintended consequence is that now people are stuck on “forever” games like Roblox, Fortnight, etc. They spend lots of money on those games but most of their time goes there as well so the rest of the industry is fighting over limited time and attention to their games.
So now the only way to grow is to find gamers outside of each individual platform or more accurately expand the platform beyond one piece of hardware.
Console wars died a long time ago. The games media/fans are just now realizing it.
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Diondon
Thanks to the lawyers uh, I marbled the foyer
Yeah lets make both consoles indistinguishable from each other
in fact pushing consumers to PC
that will make sales skyrocket
I was right all along!
Meanwhile Nintendo is like
in fact pushing consumers to PC
that will make sales skyrocket
I was right all along!
Meanwhile Nintendo is like
IsThatBrothaMouzone?
Veteran
This is the issue right here.
The 6 figs/6 certs Coli breh may or may not game on PC....but he will buy a console pretty soon after it comes out because he can afford it. Buy the PS5 & Xbox and wait for games.
Then you have someone who has less disposable income. They have enough to buy "something" but not at launch prices. They wait for the console price to drop and get in later in the lifecycle. PS5 should be $299 or even $249 by now but it's still $$$$$. The people that would normally jump in late, aren't jumping in. Sales naturally slow down over time but it might be a bit faster than normal.
Yeah. its why they continue pumping new, hype games for these consoles years after they release. Theres people who didn't jump in early but got in later
It's why the ps1 abd ps2 were the biggest selling consoles ever. It got cheap, and they continued promoting it and pumping out quality new games
oh no how will these billion dollar companies survive?
Yeah those systems were affordable 3-4 years later and also being able to mod helped
PS5 been out for 5 years and for example here in canada on release it was 599. 5 years later its still 580 but the economy is much worse now than it was 5 years ago. Games are also much more expensive
A new game is 90 dollars with tax almost 100 dollars for ONE GAME
Exactly, who the fukk doesn't have one? If anything sales are related to replacing, damaged, stolen ones. There's very few people like "I've wanted one, I just haven't had the chance to get one, I'll probably get the PS5 around black Friday"
