600€ is insane for hardware that’s already two generations behind. You can get a computer with better specs for 500€ and it can also do useful stuff while having cheaper games.
At 400€ I’d consider it, since I can actually hear the noise of the PS4 from the living room and through my headphones when my wife is playing it.
some folks gave up and ended up with an Xbox or PC. I helped a few friends build a gaming rig and get onto Steam after they got fed up getting sniped by bots on friggin best buy lol
Well…I mean…that was mainly because of the lack of stock… well and scalpers didn’t help.
Like there was giveaways to get the opportunity to buy them… yeah sure they sold plenty but some people had to wait a long time to be able to get one and it wasn’t because people went crazy buying them alone.
But yes it sold well with that I agree. That said nobody said it didn’t sell well here so not sure where your comments comes from.
To me it means what it says… They had some expectations and they didn’t reach it.
At the end I guess is open to interpretation, but expectations sometimes are out of reality… some times they go higher either to sell it to inversors or they simply over estimate…
I wouldn’t go as far as reading as them saying it didn’t sell well, more like they expected more…
As someone who deals with business analytics/ budgeting, “not meeting sales expectations” is a 1:1 translation to “bad sales.” Sony has R&D, manufacturing, and other “static” costs that need to be recouped with more unit sales–decent isn’t enough when you’re balancing everything around great.
(This translates to much of peak-covid -> “post”-covid business decision backlash. So much short-term thinking based on the economy being temporarily on crack with everyone at home).
What were their expectations? PS4 sold 117M globally. PS5 is currently 54M, and it was severely supply constrained by chip shortages at the beginning of its run. If this didn’t meet expectations, then their expectations were out of wack.
I’m just doing the math, but if the ps4 sold for 200 at launch, Sony made about 23.4 billion, and if the ps5 cost 500 at launch, Sony made 27 billion. They made less sales yet still did better than with the Ps4.
When I got married I inherited the first three generations. We put up some little shelves ordered by generation and all five of them still get played. PS3 included. It released with some awesome games.
I bought my PS5 specifically because I was tired of waiting for 2 particular games to be ported to PC. Of course, the actual catalyst was getting an extra $1000 outta nowhere cuz otherwise I wouldn’t have spent $700 for two games.
It was the new ratchet and clank which made me really want one. Every other exclusive apart from Spiderman 2 I actually haven’t finished because I lose interest in them. And no I’m not depressed before some armchair Dr tries to explain to me like I’ve had on Reddit before.
Bro if that shit failed to perform then it’s on them for failing to manufacture enough. The demand was there. And it out performed the Xbox whateverthefucknow.
Scalpers were holding a lot of them and raised the prices so ppl gave up and got another console or a PC altogether. This may not be majority but definitely a singinificant difference and just 1 example for that.
Same here. It’s new to us and a couple months old, and it doesn’t exactly have a huge selection of PS5 optimized games suggestive of a mature platform. This wasn’t just for finances but we didn’t want to deal with the supply issues in the beginning.
Our console budget is spent for a good long time. And if they do jump to the next console quickly without properly investing in games for this one, that will undermine my trust in their future consoles.
I have such a huge backlog of games that I don’t even have an urge to buy new games anymore. I know I can eventually get them at a huge discount later anyway.
Yeh 2 or 3 but normal people can’t afford them due to the price of fucking everything going up a lot.
In seriousness I like how the ps5 feels to play but due to slow releases unless it’s the last of us re re re master master deluxe lack of time or just not having a free 70 quid that month I buy 1 or 2 games a year.
Hey eum, quick question, how Safe is this voyager app? And can I share like something quite serious but private? Or can I be traced when I say sensitive information?
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