Cool, surely we will see those profits being put into new games right?
Pretty much every game is at the least solid this generation. Can't think of a game I've played thats worse than a 6.5/10.
>>724074316Not impressive when inflation is considered.
>>724074462Inflation has only risen 37% since 2014 (year PS2 stopped production).
>>724074394No. Theyre taking the Nintendo route.
Why was the PS2 barely profitable?
Yet I havent like any games this gen other than remakes and Elden Ring. Curious.
>>724074316It's interesting how you can see the soul vanish with each successive generation.
>>724074316most of it is probably subscription services and transaction cuts from multiplayer microtransactions.
>>724074316PS4 literary became better
LOL
>>724074316>most profitable >no games yawn
>>724074316if you keep increasing prices, you make more money. Who would've thought. Don't tell the economists.
Dayyyum was PS3 really that bad?
>>724074316now adjust it for inflation and account for the length of the generations
>>724075894No online subscription
>>724077167Read the thread you knuckledragger.
>>724074316I seriously doubt it, it sold but a small fraction of what the ps2 sold
>>724079578Facts don't care about your feelings :(
>>724074394Why make new games when you can milk these retards forever?
>>724074316what about concord?
b-but no games!!
All it took was them going 3rd party lol
>>724082471If a platform cant succeed without gatekeeping games, its a shit platform.
All xiexie to chinese GaaS
why is everything so fucking retarded
>>724078161No.
>>724076654Yes
>>724074316Sounds like BS. Didn't the PS3 end up selling more than the X360 by the end of the generation?
>PS5 is OFFICIALLY the MOST PROFITABLE Generation in PlayStation History!
>>724074316Why did the PS3 flop so bad? Was forcing it to have a bluray player and charging $600 really that bad? It seems to me like it was a strategic maneuver that paid off in the long run though. Otherwise HD-DVD would have won the format wars and Microsoft would be dictating all the terms.
All I need for PS6 is full backwards compatibility, with ALL Sony generations, PSP and Vita included. If they do that they can make as many shit live service games as they want and I'll still buy it.
>>724074316Where do they get these numbers?
>>724083357PS3 was a huge flop because it cost so much to make and they included the disc drive back then and the online was free so they didn't get that extra money like they're doing now. Xbox 360 might have exploded but Microsoft could cover the costs easily, basically all third party games looked/played better on Xbox. Nintendo still won the generation of course but in a way Xbox won the third party machine war that gen, it's just they couldn't keep it up into the next gen that really cost them. I think Playstation will keep losing hard though, they can't beat Nintendo with third party support.
>>724076416What do the flags on top mean and why do they change order?>>724076438>no jokes yawn
>>724076416the biggest lie is the ps4 having no games I have a backlog of 150odd games I wanna buyyes you can get stuff like titanfall2 on a PC but I dont wanna get it on that
>>724074981>snoyboy tries to pull a “b-b-but NINTENDO!” whataboutism literally one fucking day after a Direct about a game that Nintendo is throwing money at with no plans for DLC or microtransactions, entirely to reward a dev who wants to make a good gameRetard.
>>724083513The Cell fucked them over making it cost even more than it should and pushing away the devs. Also because of it the multiplat games were worse on the PS3 for quite a while. Took almost the entire gen for devs to work around the Cell bullshitery
>>724083605Probably the same bullshit numbers Sony throws around. But the PS5 gen is including PS4 numbers.
>>724076141PS4 had more soul than PS3.
>>724083513it didnt flop you retard it sold over 100mil, they just made something that cost so much to make and sold it for on the cheap it was soul
>>724082324They wasted 4 Billion on the PS3, 400 Million is a drop in the bucket comparatively.
>>724083357You need to also factor in research and development costs as well as build costs most consoles are often sold at a loss and the attachment rate of games needed before they start making a profit is different more aggresive marketing of paid services also skews things in the later gens favour.
>>724083789But by that logic PS5 would still be doing 4 Billion (13B - 9B) or maybe I don't know how that works. Also how did the Playstation 1 have higher numbers than the PS2, the single most successful console of all time? I don't know about any of this and OP is probably too stupid to explain.
>>724083873>and sold it for on the cheap
>>724083789Yah, like we don't know what contributes to those numbers.This could include shit like the cut from Sony published titles, which would include PC game sales for all we know.
>>724074316>Literally only make money with PS Network and nothing else
>>724083873>it sold over 100milSource?
>>724084104>the single most successful console of all time?That's Switch 1. Monster HW/SW sales, paid online, people buying DLC/microtransactions. How successful you were back in the day honestly doesn't matter much, what really mattered is how many great franchises did you make when making games was cheap as hell. IP/brand power is everything. Sony keeps obfuscating the numbers like saying "franchise sold X amount of units" instead of giving us the real numbers.
>sold in 5x as many countries as the PS1what's the actual market penetration, as in what percentage of console buyers picked the PS5 over the competition?
>>724084110from how much the parts cost you fucking idiot, i swear if its not a steam chart anons are thick as pig shit
>>724084110actually if you bought $600 worth of beef in 2006, in 2025 you would buy $966 worth of pork
>>724085024Partly because of the disc drive which is so ironic because now Sony only does digital only. I can't think of anything more cucked than wasting money on a disc drive, getting locked into the worst place to play games and then companies like Microsoft releases a PS5 disc that only contains 1GB out of 80GB kek>>724085127Best to eat the beef and then leave it behind. PS3 was a mess. I feel sorry for all the people who get locked behind that ecosystem. Sony fanboys are so hateful yet at the same time they're trying to sell you the system that made them so bitter in the first place.
>>724074316*Gachaslop is profitableFtfy. Don't ever forget that you're just a leech, sony
>>724075894It was sold pretty cheap and a lot of people just used it mainly as a dvd player with a copy of GTA.
>>724085475you sound dimp
>>724074316>profitable after paid online is introduced, consoles as scalped, console prices, controller prices, online subscription prices are raised, studios are shuttered, massive layoffs, and project cancellationsNoticing
>>724076438https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_5_games
>>724075963nice tasteNOT!
>>724074981Making good games? That's a lie.
>>724074316Sony always wins, sweet baby!
>>724074316Other than some goofy numbers game that often happens in business there is no way the PS2 was less profitable than the first one.
>>724088191Bribing third parties to stay away from Nintendo AND Microsoft ain't cheap ya know
>>724074316>no games>still makes a profitInsanity.
>launched five years ago>in those five years, they only have (and excluding ports/remasters/remakes and VR) it only has 13 exclusives>already talks for the PS6Lol ok.
>>724074316That AMD SoC is piss cheap to produce, that's why.
>>724088878>Anti consumer practices are good actually
>>724088878Gonna be funny when PS6 is here and this entire list disappears
>>724088878Let me debunk that real quick.
>>724074316b-but muh games! pcvalvejeet xisters, where are the hecckin games??? gta 6 will be releasing on chud station but not on pcvalvejeet pooceesthis is NOT fair!
>>724089448Ah yes, because were would the PS5 be without... Cazzarionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0J9pQeFzqYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl_UDpYjL80https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgJQvSmzRtsI'd make fun of the Switch as well for having shovelware games, but at least it did better than PS5.
>>724089571If you're into gaming you gotta know some friend or family that owns a PS5 you can just borrow, no need to support Sony at all. It's literally that easy. You DO have friends, right?
>>724074316Free to play garbage game it a leg up over the competition, that’s the only explanation.
>>724075894Least Jewish
>>724074394Nope, buy the shitty yellow samurai slop tho
>>724074316>MOST PROFITABLE>source of profit includes:>microtransactions (every single game has them including the most played games on the console)>accessories (people need to buy the cheap shitty controllers that break all the time over and over again)>subscription services (pay to own nothing lmfao)>people buying a fucking DISC DRIVE since 2/3 ps5 rereleases don't have one Yeah sure, most profitable but at what cost? Might as well just buy a Switch 2 since even if I'm paying out the ass for games, I'll at least HAVE games to play.
