Comment on PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates

9point6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There strategy right now is literally “Let’s charge more to sell less, and let’s also kneecap a revenue stream that could prop us up during this memory crisis.” So has been winning so long that they forgot how easy it is to lose. They are gonna find out.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Also, all our first party games will be released on PC at a later date. Why would we leave money on the table? That’s just stupid!”

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Kinda weird at the end he called for a school shooting, but otherwise good PR.

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    • aMockTie@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s a reference to the Dungeon Crawler Carl series of books. If you haven’t read them, I can’t recommend them enough. The audiobooks are also incredibly well done.

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      • Ok_imagination@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Hi Zev!

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The audiobooks are crap. They’ve got DOGS in them!

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      • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They are absolute garbage.

        If you thought Ready Player One was good and you like reading self-published internet fanfic, though, knock yourself out.

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  • inflatablerobot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    God damn it Donut

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  • aMockTie@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh shit, you just reminded me that the new DCC book is out. I know what I’m doing on my lunch break.

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    • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It is, and it’s great so far :) Enjoy, fellow crawler.

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• Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I assumed it was because they saw handheld computers and the Steam Machine as serious competition to Sony’s own hardware.

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That was my initial thought, but they don’t even have a current gen handheld do they?

    (And if they do, frankly the marketing team should be fired)

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    • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, they don’t have a handheld, and that’s kinda the problem. The ecosystem is growing without them. Steamdeck, Xbox ROG Ally, Nintendo Switch. That’s 100% of their competitors, each with handhelds that nearly came out of nowhere in the last few years. Sony is SUPER behind the curve on this, and no amount of “New PSVita5” is gonna save them. They biffed it with the mobile market, and instead of buying in and playing second fiddle, they want to take their ball and go home.

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      • Link@rentadrunk.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        No, they don’t have a handheld, and that’s kinda the problem

        PlayStation Portal enters the chat /s

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    • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They do, but its bad.

      Its just a handled device that stores from only your ps5. Can nor play anything itself.

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  • TAG@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Handheld computers are competition to the PlayStation in the sense that Sony would want everyone who owns one to buy a PS5 instead but not in the sense that those consumers having an option is hurting sales significantly. I could not find actual numbers, but analysts seem to be estimating that Valve has sold about 6 million Steam Decks in total. For comparison, Sony sold 1.5 million PS5s last quarter, which is devastating since they sold 2.8 million the year before.

    Also, that sales gap is going to get worse in the short term. Instead of raising Steam Deck prices or reducing profit margins, Valve has decided to stop selling systems until RAM prices come back down.

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• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Which is weird to me, because the software and licensing is where all the money is. And it isn’t subject to supply chain issues the way that hardware is.

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