What the fuck is happening at PlayStation? How are they fucking up at every turn despite the massive success of the PS4 and PS5?
That's why you don't move your management to California. Yes, the Japs were retarded as well - but in a uniquely different way.
Most successful Playstation generation ever.
They need just one fortnite, just one. Any second now...
>>733391991They can afford to fuck up. Can’t say the same for Microsoft
>>733392058Entirely because their opposition shot themselves in the foot. There's simply no alternative to a PS5 unless you build a PC, which will be more expensive.
>Bluepoint’s whole schtick is remaking games>The only games that come out nowadays are remakes because dev teams are filled with incompetent idiots who don’t know how make proper sequels or even original IPsThey played themselves I suppose
What confuses me about the sony’s live service push is that even if they were successful they’d all be competing with each other. It’s the same concept of why other mmos never overtake wow. People only have so much time
>>733393305they sure have a weird way of thanking them
>>733391991>What the fuck is happening at PlayStationEmbezzlement. They're too cucked to hold the Americans to account, so Sony is just going to keep losing money through them (as the American management skims from the losses).
>>733391991Sony wasted too much money on dumb shit. They spent 3.6 billion on Bungie and they've spent a shit load of money on millions on multiple GaaS that either flopped or have been canceled.
>>733393452They are thanking by making them work in a better company than snoy
>moved to california >immediate enshittification
>>733391991Larry Fink.
>>733391991The purpose of the buyouts was to deny the opposition access to them. It wasn't to make games.
>>733391991They only have moviegames with ever increasing dev cycles and chasing after trends, in this case GaaS and are failing horribly since they don't seem to understand that the market for it is so heavily oversaturated even waifu coomer mobile games are having a hard time to gain any hold.
>>733391991Now show which studios were American... but you won't... cause we all know the truth.
>>733394786the shills all play dumb to ESG/DEI like it never existed>>733395442nah - it was just Japs underestimating how dysfunctional the americans were capable of being
Sony's success is purely due to third party publishers who are slowly migrating to the PC
>>733392058Easy to be profitable when you don’t develop games, the valve technique
>>733393305>craftsMANshipI can't believe Sony are such chuds
>>733391991>”massive success”You didn't fall for their lies, did you?Case in point:>>733392058Things were looking so dire they had to come up with a completely new way to obfuscate data.They started calling total company profits “PS5 generation” despite majority of them not coming from PS5: PS4 hardware and software, PS Plus on PS4, the cuts from microtransactions in Fortnite, Genshin, Roblox etc. on PS4, PSVR hardware and software, PS Portal, people buying 30 years old games on PS Store, Sony games on Xbox, Sony games on Switch, Sony games on Steam, PS branded sneakers, PS branded speakers, PS branded monitors, $300 PS picture books etc.And Snoys fell for it and thought it was all PS5.Same thing happened when they thought PS5 software sales were good when Sony started combining them with PS4.That’s all intentional, mind you, Snoys are so gullible the fall for every lie and go fight console wars for them.
>>733391991Don't forget to thank Concord guys
>>733391991blame cryan ryan
>>733396660so, still the most profitable generation ever?
>>733397441Can't really tell because the others gen weren't counting those things. Will this stop you from claiming is the most profitable gen? Of course not, you're a snoy.
>>733397441Most profitable in spite of their own actions. It's Fortnite and EA sports making money for them while they waste the 30% cut they get on expensive first party failures
>>733391991>bluecry
>>733397441PS5 has 14 games, literally - it's founded on PS4 compatibility, and that one has 200.PS1 had 500+, same as PS2 - Sony are just idiots, putting all their eggs in one basket. Sure, it's an expensive & shiny basket, but you're banking on EVERYONE to like this exact basket. Fuck you, I brought my own bag.
>>733397441>stocks plummet>no sales>firing people left and right>cancelling all projects>literally no games>most expensive console with no disk reader>b-but they're making more money>actually they're not>LALALALA THEY'RE MAKING MORE MONEY
>>733392058Easy to claim success when you dump your liabilities on other Sony Group companies I guess
>>733397696>but you're banking on EVERYONE to like this exact basketSnoys will just buy whatever Sony tells them to buy.
sony to this day is eating itself alive because it saw fortnite print money a decade ago
>>733397584>>733397621>>733397696>>733397704So they have expanded to make more money and have been successful in doing so?
>>733392769Not really. Different target audiences. Most of them appear to have been aimed at hooking a female audience: Concord, Marathon, Fairgames, Horizon, etc. Helldivers skews male on the other hand.
>>733391991Cause Sony blatantly lies about its sales data
>>733398123they would have made more money if they didn't expand, which is why they're currently closing down all these studios they acquiredHelldivers 2 is the only game they've released in the last five years that made money
>>733398390>they have made more money than ever>but imagine how much more they could have made!!
>>733398434yes, that is how publicly traded companies think
>>733398390Yotei was made on a shoestring budget and made 3 million sales its first month though.
It was never about being successful, it was always about making it so others couldn't be.
>>733398390They have nearly 50m Plus subscribers. They hiked the price of it this gen too.
>>733392058i'd like to see numbers adjusted for inflation desu
>>733391991This isn’t a bad thing. Sometimes you need little forest fires to cleanse the bullshit. You should be thankful Sony bought and forced these cunts to die, now there is room for new. Don’t be a faggot.
>>733398747https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
they should make online capable PS2s and new PS2 games since shit is too expensive now. Maybe the shit to make a PS2 is still cheap at least compared to a PS5. Might even being able to manufacture it yourself since it's rather archaic, not sure how involved it'd actually be in current year.
>>733391991microshaft xbox gaming studios are even in a worse state
>>733392058>2 exclusivesAbsolutely insane. I wonder who's even buying PS5s, much less playing anything on it.
>>733399026>they should make online capable PS2s and new PS2 games since shit is too expensive now. Maybe the shit to make a PS2 is still cheap at least compared to a PS5They probably don't even have the equipment to fab those chips anymore, and if they did they'd probably try to nigger rig them into producing some fucking AI chips or something retarded instead.
>>733391991What is happening to most of the gaming industry, the fallout of the mass hiring of people who do not want to make video games for the mass market of people who play them, but rather for minorities who do not. While barely being skilled enough for the job, which is why studios now just take upwards to a decade to develop one game, if at all, while burning through hundred millions in budgets. Then the studio closes and the worst of them get hired right onto the next huge project, continuing the death spiral.
>>733399616they have more monthly users than nintendo has annual players though
>>733399616People with money
>>733392146This, but the opposite.
>>733400035You didn't answer his question tho
>>733391991>buying up woke studios to purge themIt's called charity.
I kinda blame Xbox for this. They're the ones who started this weird acquisition race that made it seem as if Playstation would be left with nothing if they didn't keep up.Little did we know that Sony would then start sprinting into acquiring their own companies but both competitors had a fatal flaw: none of them actually knew how to run the companies they'd recently aquired.Phil Spencer once said with pride that he wasn't going to mess with how the companies he acquired developed games. What this meant however was that there was suddenly zero drive from upper management to actually produce anything, and since the new boss, Phil, wasn't applying literally any pressure to preform we got nothing. Most of the acquired companies now produce nothing.
>>733404112>Arkane>they use an image of a qween from Redfall instead of Dishonored or PreyHumiliating.
>>733391991They went all in on live service titles, and it failed spectacularly. Concord was obviously an outright disaster, but their internal studios spent much of this generation developing live service titles that will never be released.
>>733404112i remember there was this huge race to acquire a bunch of shit for a little while before everyone realized this was a retarded ideaturns out you actually have to lead companies you buy if you want them to make stuff
i don't see how Sony is making money when the switch 2 runs UE5 games. It all feels like lies, not surprising then you realize how owns sony in 2026.>just a coincidence PS5 is the machine for Sportsniggers, that's literally it, it has no use for gaming. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
>>733391991You think that's bad, look at Xbox, holy cringeola.
>>733408170>Whatabotism>tarded zoomspeak>Microsoft probably has more IPs than Sony at this pointincredible post.
>>733408278who do people blame sony going to shit on california when it's these retarded yuros making all the bad decisions
>>733391991They are clearly fucking retarded, anon. They spent like a bajillion dollars on fuck ass Bungie of all companies.
>>733393751This, Didn't Sony piss away 200 million dollars just to buy Firewalk Studios for Concord? Talk about a blunder of the century.
>>733392131Ironically Fortnite is a primary reason they're doing so well to begin with
snoys be like"They havent put out a game in months and they just closed ANOTHER studio, but look at their profit margin!!"
why cant they just release or sell blue point?
>>733408347Because Americans and American bankers are the ones that pushed for globohomo and killing the white race.Sony brand survives because it's the niggerball and poorball machine.When you think about it there is no reason to own a ps5, like at all, even the XBOX has more games and more future now.
>>733400135>The meme came true
>>733408278Jim Ryan, Phil Spencer and Herman Hulst are all fighting to see who is the best at tanking their companies.
>>733392058
>>733408543I would not be surprised that they are purposely shorting the stocks.
>>733408543don't forget the king of fucking up, don mattrick, the only one to actually kill a console company
>Sony is making big mistakes>blame Xbox anywaysWhy are people like this
>>733408170Xbox is thriving and killing Sony right now by avoiding the console race altogether and just focusing on games.
>>733391991they shut down Japan Studio for this
>>733408735to be fair, the sole reason sony bought bungie and started this disaster is because they panicked from ms buying activision and stealing call of duty away
>>733397441Yes*This is the most profitable** generation*** ever
>>733397441>OUR CURRENT PRODUCT IS SUPER SUCCESSFUL SAR JUST LOOK AT THE SALES FOR OUT PRIOR PRODUCT ADDED
>>733408735There's a small subworld of children, teenagers and adults that have lived a life of luxury because they were able to suck on Sony tits for so long. The fact that Sony is failing makes them want to protect the company in the same way a child protects his failure parents. Also some niggers like jason schreier are legit mentally ill, not the funny way haha you are a schizo, more of a functional but mentally it ~might shoot a random place if he feels cute that day teehee~ kind of way.
>>733408969if you are remotely interested in gta online get it on ps5 purely for the way larger playerbasebut technically if rockstar doesnt fuck up the xbox version series x should outperform the base ps5 by a bit
>cuck Kratos>cuck Ratchet & Clank>kill Uncharted>kill Jak & Daxter>kill Dark Cloud>kill Legend of Dragoon>"exclusives" go to PC>shit out remake>after remake>after remake>oh and a gay little robotI mean, they had it coming.
>>733408804Shame they stopped selling phone mounts
>>733409083Astrobot is a humiliation ritual, a on-rail platformer for actual toddlers with a bunch of dead ips. fucking lol. Glad to see SONY hasn't learned a single thing and keeps self-destructing.
ReminderSony were planning to buy Fromsoft but after the head of PlayStation at the time saw Demon's Souls gameplay he thought the game will be a huge flop and they decided against the purchasethe way shuhei yoshida shat on the original game is unreal>完成間近の段階でDemon’s Soulsを2時間ほどプレーしたが、2時間後にもプレーを開始した時と全く同じ場所に立ったままだった。>「これは駄目だ。信じられないほど酷いゲームだ」と感じて、プレーを止めてしまったよ。>I played an almost finalized version of the game for about 2 hours, but 2 hours after having started playing I was still standing there at the same location.>"This is terrible. It's an incredibly awful game.", I thought to myself, and stopped playing.then he ended up regretting it>From subsequently went off to Bandai for DaS and it became a legitimately mainstream hit on the PS3 and 360, Yoshida approached Miyazaki, admitted he was wrong and commissioned From to collaborate with Japan Studio again for Bloodborne>Demon’s Soulsの欧米販売を見送ったのは今世代最大の失態だった>missing out on publishing Demon's Souls in the US and Europe was our biggest mistake ever this gen>The game’s asynchronous messaging system and the ability to learn from other players’ mistakes helped inspire the Share button on the PS4 controller, Yoshida saidIt's also worth mentioning that the last we heard from Miyazaki was>"Obviously, as one of the creators of Bloodborne, my personal, pure honest opinion is I'd love more players to be able to enjoy it," Miyazaki saidNow Miyazaki wants to join up with Nintendo
>>733391991PS4 success was just them being lucky. PS5 having some success is literally 99% because of GTA 6 and Xbox dying
>>733408347Commies are the ones that pick the eurotrash
>>733409083Off topic but I’m envious that the Chinese got a Master Chief Collection style multiplayer for Call of Duty. All the OG guns and map in a single game- meanwhile Xbox now owns Activision but can’t clean up their OG games full of hackers. Fuck Microsoft.
>>733409270what dead ip? How is nintendo or valve any different? Nintendo makes 90% mario slop while star fox and earthbound rot away. Valve takes 10 years to make one game. hello Half life 3? what about portal? Yet sony has to keep 20+ franchises alive long after their trilogies have concluded. Double standard much?
>>733392058I read the boring black and white documents Sony also releases which are forced to conform to regulatory standards to make comparisons easier. Playstation was most profitable in terms of margin during PS4 (peaked at around 14%). Sony's forecast for the full FY2026 is only 11% which means CY2025 will likely be the peak for this gen due to cost pressures preventing it from dropping prices.Another way to look at it. If I offered you two investments with a guaranteed return of $5 with the only difference being buy-in, would you take the one that required $10 upfront or $8? Obviously the $8 buy in right? To tie it to platform makers, Sony offers you $1.10 for an investment of $10 and Nintendo offers you $0.8 for an investment of $5. The difference is why Sony announced closures despite "record profits" and is desperately looking for ways to monetize it's install base whether through increased sub fees or it's GaaS push.
>>733398123Anon, previous profit margins didn't involve those things and they were still happening. This is a company involving other ventures to inflate profit numbers because they're lacking otherwise. You see the same with Disney redefining RoI or MI6 mixing domestic, international an NI terror threats to smudge numbers. Corpos always find ways to lie.
>>733409362to be fair souls gameplay is terrible and the only reason it took off the way it did is because the british advertising company that bandai namco hired to shill the game did such a terrific job and came up with all those retarded slogans that discord trannies love so much like prepare to die
>>733409591At least I can purchase every Valve game at a sharp discount on my PC.
>>733408969PS5. Rockstar knows Xbox is a dead brand and they're almost certainly going to be prioritizing tweaks and performance boosts for the PS5.
>>733409591>splatoon, ring fit, bananza and prime 4 are all reused IPswew lad
>>733409774Yeah, all 3 of them
>>733391991have u not been around since the ps3 era>snoy buys a ton of studios with their amazingly successful ps2>ps3 fucks around horribly and most of them get shut down>ps vita fails horribly and most of those get shut down too>ps4 comes out and theres like fuckin nobody left to make fuckin games
>>733409851Thank goodness for that, I got to pirate a whole bunch of ps4 ports for ps3 games I missed out on.
You MotherFucking Sony! FUCK YOU!!!
>>733409851Anyways aren’t you guys excited for the PS6!!! You can purchase GTA 6 again and another remaster of The Last of Us 2.
>>733391991Just devouring the competition.
>>733409797ringfit? really? Lets not forget prime 4 which re-killed the IP
>>733410017how is ring fit now a new IP?> Lets not forget prime 4 which re-killed the IPsource?
>>733410062I thought we were discussing dead franchises not gimmicky waggle shit. But I guess thats modern Nintendo in a nutshell.
>>733409591>How is nintendo or valve any differentValve made 1 game (half life) a bajillion years ago, they've always been a more serious company that focused on software and hiring mod makers and people with interesting projects. Valve games two or three games are interesting because they are made by actual nerds. Nintendo has games.
>>733410137>its not a new IP because...um.. UM...WAGGLE!
>>733409797>Trying to sneak Metroid and DK, both 30+ years old, in there>Fucking Ring FitSit this one out, tendie, lmao
>>733410210>the last prime game was made in 2007>tropical freeze was made 11 years ago>THOSE DONT COUNT>ring fit doesnt count because it just doesnt ok
>>733410192Ring Fit Adventure has sold over 15.38 million copies worldwide as of March 31, 2023Astro Bot has sold over 2.3 million copies worldwide as of March 2025Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (released June 2025) sold an estimated 1.4 millionThe 2020 Demon's Souls remake for PlayStation 5 has sold over 1.857 million copies as of early 2022Do i need to go on or do you understand how no one want's a PS5 for gaming? It's a niggerball machine/franchise for retarded whales and bankers like the rothschild/blackrock to abuse and push propaganda on.Hope that helps you understand the big picture, retard.
>>733410440why did you reply to me
>>733410275God damn so this really is the mind of a tendie. Bananza is just Mario btw.
>Sony gets their most profitable generation by not making (and barely having) any gamesGrim, if the microtransaction live service slopfest that the current day game industry looks bad now, they're further incentivized to go even further in the next generation.
>>733410536>no rebuke whatsoever>this game without mario anywhere in it is actually a mario game
>>733410440>15 million tendies would rather embarrassing themselves at home than go to a gymShit, I bet they're buying those Nintendo baby blocks too.
>would rather embarassingESL's and seething at nintendo, the strongest couple in history
>>733410602Most likely woman and milfs. Don't worry about it sony fan, you will never see either of them.
>>733410595>Nintendo doesn't make new IPs>Yeah huh. Look at Metroid (1986) and DK (1981) (it's just another Mario game)Bruh. How does Nintendo lobotomize people like this. I don't get it. You're like Disney adults but gayer.
>>733410679>15 million obese women would rather embarrass themselves at home rather than go to a gym>This is the Nintendo demographic >Right next to 30 year old male virginsPfff ahaha. So baby blocks, plastic toys with DLC on them, a fucking box, and being too scared to get a membership to Planet Fitness. Embarrassing.
>>733410832>milfs, virgins and women + /ss/ Sounds kino to me, yet another Nintendo W
>>>733410720>ring fit doesnt count as a new IP becuase it jsut doesnt>uh those long dormant IPs dont count eitherlol
>>733410919>Fat balding NEET living in la la land Definitely a Nintendo adult.
>>733398542>Yotei was made on a shoestring budgetremember when sony spent more money in the second spiderman game than the first one they made even after reusing 99% of the assets?
>>733410984Don't forget to count Labo while you're at it lmao. How was Nintendo theme park, fag?
>>733411045why doesnt ring fit count? second time asking
>>733411018I don't give a fuck about Insomniac. As far as I'm concerned their last good game was Deadlocked. Suckerpunch makes consistent kino on shoestring (for AAA) budgets.
>>733409362Yoshida is also the guy who forced Level-5 to use sixaxis as the only control option for LAIR because Sony wanted a game to show off the feature at CES and the Warhawk developers already said no. Motherfucker killed them out of unnecessary Wii Fears, denying us a new Rogue Squadron game.
>>733411076>Why doesn't hoola hoops for fat people afraid of the gym count?Because it's a pathetic gimmick for fatties, mcfatson, not a game. Now sell me on the IP richness of Labo.
>>733411156why is it a pathetic gimmick? how is it not a game?
>>733391991Still doing better than Xbox
>>733409362Fromsoft would have drowned under Sony and been relegated to support status. Even when Sony has a potential runaway hit on their hands (Helldivers 2, LittleBigPlanet during its debut) they fuck it up with too much meddling or immediate oversaturation (Horizon is currently getting pushed way too hard). Fromsoft being independent has been the best thing for them.
>>733409591>what dead ip?ape escape, gravity rush, PaRappa the Rapper, patapon, jak and daxter, killzone, puppeteer and twisted metal as far as i remember
>>733411202Go to the gym, fatso, that's why. Or fantasize about obese bitches again while jacking off in your Labo, either is fine.
>>733411362no argument to be found whatoseverI accept your concession
>>733411265This
>>733411420>I accept your *wheeze* concessionWhy is Labo not a game?
>>733411482I'm still waiting to hear how Ring fit isnt a game
>>733404112>What this meant however was that there was suddenly zero drive from upper management to actually produce anything, and since the new boss, Phil, wasn't applying literally any pressure to preform we got nothingFucking THANK you. I've been saying for years that xbox is too nice to it's studios. There's no fucking world where 343 should have even been allowed to spend 6 years making a halo game, and if they'd just been given a normal, strict timeline they would have paradoxically made a much better game. The relationship between soulless corpo suits and the actual Devs is at its best when it's balanced. To weighted in one direction you get live service slop forced on singleplayer studios, too far in the other and nothing gets done because creative types are naturally self-destructive.
>>733411581I'm still waiting for you to talk about the hot new Nintendo IP, Labo.
>>733404112>none of them actually knew how to run the companies they'd recently aquired.You don't have to, you run your company or you get the fuck out, that simple.
Mentally ill autistic nigger still wants to know the hot new nintendo IP anon lmao
>>733409757Do you genuinely believe this? That an entire subgenre was crated and populated, that Elden ring sold 100 bazillion copies despite normies getting filtered by the first boss, because of a single slick advertising campaign that zoomers like me don't even remember?
>>733412008>Don't even rememberYet you were affected by it. "Git gud" as a culture point is a direct result of the reputation Souls earned for itself after the "Prepare to Die" marketing campaign cemented it as the hard game franchise. Your retarded brain absorbed it via osmosis.
>>733412008It's exactly what happened. Dark Souls was never a good game, it was something people beat to prove how much of a le hardcore gamer they were. There's a reason that genre didn't blow up until discord became a mainstream thing, everyone who plays it does so performatively
Zoomers are brainwashed niggers, what a surprise...no fucking way...
>>733404112>They're the ones who started this weird acquisition raceSony has been buying up game studios since the 90s.>Psygnosis>Evolution Studios>Zipper Interactive>Guerilla Games>Insomniac>Naught Dog>Sucker Punch>The developer that that made that shitty Motorstorm PSP spinoff and then immediately shut down in order to offset Vita losses>Bluepoint Games>The Bubsy 3D developer that made Days Gone>The Super Stardust developer got bought after making that one shitty PS5 game nobody remembers>Firesprite, which I only learned just now were spun off from the Wipeout developers who got tired of making Wipeout, only to get bought out by Sony a year later and got stuck being a fucking Horizon series support studioYou're either a shortsighted revisionist who only sees the current year or a dumb snoy who believes the company has never once done something non-positive without being influenced by another company's evils.
>>733412561NTA, but there was absolutely an acquisition arms race starting around the late 2010s. Microsoft and Embracer were going full retard with covid money buying shit left and right, and Sony decided to get in on it too. They even panic bought Bungie after the Activision thing finished.
>>733410580That's why Sony went to the western governments to try and stop Microcock from buying Bungie. The Epic v. Apple court case showed that they were making billions off of Call of Duty and Fortnite microtransactions. Skimming off 30% from lootbox sales was actually enough for them to fund multiple games, and was also why Sony didn't give a shit whether or not their first-party titles actually sold well or had staying power.
>>733412819>Sony tried to stop MS from buying BungieYou mean Activision, anon. Microslop approached Bungie and almost bought them, but said lol, no after seeing their finances and backed off.
Sony died with the ps3, who cares about the nigroid mutt machine 5, only zoomniggers that want to play nigger theft 5
