>1.5M PS5's sold. Down from 2.6M last quarter. >Lowest quarter on record and that's before the latest price hikes.>Sony overpaid for Bungie and had to admit it.>Destiny 2 is dramatically underperforming relative to 2+ years ago, bringing in somewhere in the range of 9 figures less revenue per year (hundred million per year range).>Marathon made around $50-75 million in revenue on a budget of $300+ million (development + advertising/marketing)>And they cancelled other projects like Payback and restructured the studios, separating out other projects.
I'm also reading the report, anon - nice summary.
>Marathon made around $50-75 million in revenue on a budget of $300+ million (development + advertising/marketing)But... What about of the blast having?!!
>>738434817Maradads… not like this…
Why did destiny 2 and marathon flop while destiny 1 won in the end?
>1.5M PS5's sold. Down from 2.6M last quarter.>Lowest quarter on record and that's before the latest price hikes.>Sony overpaid for Bungie and had to admit it.>Destiny 2 is dramatically underperforming relative to 2+ years ago, bringing in somewhere in the range of 9 figures less revenue per year (hundred million per year range).>Marathon made around $50-75 million in revenue on a budget of $300+ million (development + advertising/marketing)>And they cancelled other projects like Payback and restructured the studios, separating out other projects.>Lowest quarter on record and that's before the latest price hikes.>Lowest quarter on record and that's before the latest price hikes.>Lowest quarter on record and that's before the latest price hikes.>Lowest quarter on record and that's before the latest price hikes.>Lowest quarter on record and that's BEFORE the latest price hikes.
I wonder if they will rethink PC ports with this.
>>738434817>>738435109Operating profit rose nearly 14%, PS5 is now at 93.7M.
Can’t spell maintenance mode without marathon
>>738435229What is driving the profit
>>738435229>Everything is down>But we killed enough studios and fired enough people so we're actually winning!Yeah that's a healthy mindset to have
AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
What went so wrong?
>>738435356And the profit still went up
>>738435367They got tricked into buying Bungie
>>738435390At the time it didnt seem like the worst purchase.
>>738434817Killing destiny to pump $300 million into marathon feels like a world historical level mistake now that the dust has settled
Sony is fucked for their next quarter earnings. They priced out people with the price increases.
>>738435168Anon, I'm sorry but...not enough people were having a blast...
>>738435429absolutely noteven at the time, $3.6b for Bungie, a company whose only property was Destiny, was an insane fucking scamSony got fuyckign duped, hard
>>738434817Why didnt they lie about Marathon doing well like every other developer?
>>738435367no games plus buying bungie
>>738435429Microsoft laughed at Bungie's price when they were looking around for developers to buy. MS bought activision and bethesda for cheap and made their money back multiple times over by now while Bungie will never make their money back.
Blast havers... How do we cope?
What does "absence of impairment losses against Bungie" mean with respect to a forecast for FY26?
>>738434817>1.5M PS5's sold in q4But… Twitter man said PS5 outsold switch 2 during Christmas?
>>738435678We say something gay like profit went up by 14%
>>738434817It just shows that this "record generation" was carried hard by PS4.
They're never going to admit Hermen Hulst's lust for live service slop is making them hemorrhage money. Then they admit costs keep going up and conclude with "we'll we better stop selling games to more people then."
>>738435645Microsoft decided not to buy Bungie more specifically because they thought Bungie had management issues and were burning through money iirc according to some old court docs back around the time Halo Reach came out
>>738435538This is one of the few times they legally can't lie about that.
>>738435761They already backtracked but the cash they burned is gone
>>738435681>What does "absence of impairment losses against Bungie" mean with respect to a forecast for FY26?Corporate speak for 'we hope to God Bungies not gonna drag us down again for the rest of 2026'.
>>738434817>(hundred million per year rangeHow does a game that's barely breaking 10k 24h peaks on steam make that much? Do consolebabs really have absolutely nothing else to play and spend thousands on this single game?
Paul Tassi fucking won
>>738435682This is fy q4 so january-march
>>738435774and they were right. Bungie's management pocketed the cash for destiny 3 to buy cars and to line their own pockets. They showed 10 different games in the works to trick Sony into buying them, cancelled all of them except for project gummy bears and marathon and have now exited the company with all the money from the buyout.
Snoy has sucked ever since it stopped being Japanese. They have to bring it back home
>>738434817I might actually get an Xbox next gen if they keep this shit up, and I’m heavily invested in PS as most of my shit is on there, but there’s just been so many bad decisions with no consequences lately.
>>738435852You have no clue how much older millennial gamers spend on video games on consoles, do you? The rockstar hack showed that one Xbox gamer spent millions on shark cards and that's just one person.
>>738435681They won't have to count Bungie's losses into their future financial reports because they are owning their fuck up in this financial report.
$3.6 billion.
>>738434817Jesus Christ. GTA knuckledraggers really are the only hope Sony has for the PS5.
>>738435959at least it beat femboy futa house
>>738435953>thinks bungie has the capacity to not fuck up badly in the future.
>Sony has lost $760m so far on their Bungie purchase LMAOOO
>>738434817Thats actually pretty fucking good. Haven’t most PS games failed to reach $1M in revenue on PC? This numbers are solid. Especially given its only 2 months old.
Is there an AI slop site that can take images like OP's and translate the accountancy gibberish into understandable terminology?
>>738434817OP here, also I'm trans
>>738435852It stands to reason that both console and higher end PC players spend more, if not significantly more on games than everyone else
>>738436078I don't understand why they didn't buy Bungie and then immediately fire 99% of the staff so they could give the IPs to half competent devs. Is Sony retarded?
>>738435959underneath the call of duty from 12 years ago that's considered one of the worst in the entire series, lol
where the fuck are the games? there isn't a single ps5 game that I actually want to play that isn't just better on pc. saros looks retarded and i don't play sports games. i haven't even turned my ps5 on in like a year and a half and i think it was to play diablo 3 on the couch with a friend.
>>738435941OK reputation manager
>>738435205destiny 1 was made by white men
>>738436179This sort of happened already since Bungie’s old leadership is already gone but they weren’t gonna just cancel Marathon at that point since so much had gone into itThe only question is whether Sony intends to double down and make them circle back around to the actual consistent stream of revenue (Destiny)
>>738436198Buy Starfield then, it's a top seller on PSN because it's one of the best games of the generation and there hasnt been anything good released for a long time.
Bungie is surely going to be gutted and integrated into Sony, more projects being taken away, perhaps even D2 and Marathon being wrestled away. Papa Sony cannot afford the Gen X manchildren running Bungie throwing more cash into the furnace.
>>738436024they cant fuck up if theyre shut down.
>>738436183advanced warfare was considered comically shit in 2014 and its still better than anything they've shat out since 2019. grim.
>Sony could have developed 10 Gravity Rush-calibre Jap games for the price of one BungieI hate them so much it's unreal
>Bungie has 800 employees ...what the fuck are they doing? Destiny has had zero actual content in months and Marathon had barely anything
>>738436334Gravity Rush is at best 50 mil. You mean 100, right?
>>738436126The PC games that flopped badly were the really stupid games like Uncharted 4 (why would you even bother starting with the fourth and conclusive game of a series), the HZD remaster, and Sack Boy.
>>738436296ps5 is more grim than i thought
>>738436306I think they will do targeted layoffs and bring in Sony stooges to attempt to right the ship before shutting down the company.
>>738436306I think they're going to cut their losses after one more failure.
>>738436276Anon Destiny is a walking corpse and has been for a long time. There's no saving it, Bungie are going to bluepoint soon
>>738436179They bought Bungie because Sony thought they could help them with their live service initiatives, which is hilarious considering everything they are working on is dying a painful death. I would love to know what lies Bungie told Sony to get them to buy them out.
oh no, the tendies are going to laugh at us fellow snoy sissies...
>>738436383Shit you're right. Fuck.
>>738436407FIRE THE TRANNIES!AND HERMAN HULST>>738436461we can only hope jp leadership cleans house and purges all the us fucktards.i did not buy a ps5 for 40 dollar pricetag live service garbage. apparently neither did anyone else
>>738436371>...what the fuck are they doing? the same as all studios that get bought by zillion dollar companies: nothing.
How many layoffs are we expecting in 2026?
funny what happens when you spend billions on a company whose only success came from huge microsoft marketing campaigns in the mid 2000s
>>738436505its okay, steiner will attack the losses with horizon hunters gathering and fairgame$ and intergalactic.
>>738434817>cant wait to go on four chan dot org slash v to talk about video games with strangers.>oh it's the... Sony Q4 Game & Network Services Segment, Sales, Operating Income and Adjusted OIBDA!
>>738436505take this for what you will but there were rumors on some destiny discords that bungie massaged user engagement and cash flow numbers to entice Sony to buy them. it was either witch queen or lightfall numbers. if I remember correctly Sony also tricked themselves a bit into a panic purchase because of Microsoft buying up studios
>>738436179The majority of Sony is filled with the same retardsYou're never going to have chuds make games again unless it's femboy futa house. Every single one of these companies will have to go belly up and the government will have to collapse before we get anything but nepo babies and ideology driven devs in triple A
>>738436636>STOP TALKING ABOUT A GAMING COMPANY'S FINANCIALS AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THEIR GAMES (they have none)
>they pitched marathon>an ugly extraction shooter>in current year>for a bajillion dollarsAND SONY ACTUALLY BOUGHT IT LMAOOOOOOOO
>>738435435why didn't they just hire a b-team, are they fucking retarded?Entire Warframe devteam left to make a different game but they just put a new team in place to keep the cash cow going and they hit their highest internal playercount ever last yearI literally don't understand, these games are not complex, you shoot mobs for hundreds of hours to get guns that let you shoot mobs faster
>>73843481793.7M PS5s sold before GTA 6. Damn.
>>738434817Oh this is just going to make Nintendo's look even better
>>738437063hopefully it drops soon.
>>738435435Destiny 2 had an ongoing cash burn problem that was never addressed but killing the game outright instead of attacking those problems was certainly a choice.
>>738437063Unless Nintendo had somehow decided to set a quarter of a billion dollars on fire when we weren't looking they were always going to look better than a post Marathon Sony
>>738436560no layoffs, just more price hikes
>>738437128Bungie did 2 rounds of layoffs after this by the way, likely to fight off what Sony has made clear today
>>738435205Destiny 1 was made before they began purging the entire staff body every few years, they only got rid of some of the key individuals during that.
>>738434817>sony keeps focusing on western slop>the best PS5 exclusive is still a japanese basic 3d platformer that's also a glorified commercial.
>>738437105It drops at 2 AM ET.
>>738435310sportball, fornite, shooters with dlc's/microtransactions
Thursday strikes again.
>>738436536What jp leadership? The on that got told to not waste resources on a japan only ps5 because it would result on more losses?
>>738436183Was that the one with the exo-suits? I liked that one.
>>738434817Give it to me straight, guys, how long does Hermen Hulst have before Sony finally "retires" his ass?
>>738437398Holy mother of grimgaming crash cannot come soon enough
>>738436698This. They're going to double down on the Cinematic Experiences™ that made them popular back in 2013. Which was 13 years ago.
>>738437343Not that long now
>>738437398>minecraftwho the fuck? Children? Man that is so sad. Minecraft on console sounds awful, and without modpacks too? Kids are growing up with actual slop, I really feel bad for them.
>>738435220It's not even about porting their games at this point. They bet everything on GaaS shit being THE genre for the next 15 years, with Marathon serving as their de facto title. They wound up holding a lemon that has so far cost them over $4 billion, numerous developer studios being shut down or stripped to the bare minimum, and fucking Marathon.
Kneel.
>>738435336Shareholders don't care so long as their dividends are slightly higher than they were before, everything else is the company's problem, if they can't make the line go up anymore, then they can always dump their stocks and take the money to something more successful.
>>738435385Everyone can increase profits by just announcing that they are focusing on AI this year.
>>738434817MehI'm ambivalent towards Sony but I don't think those numbers are bad considering the global economy and the no nut warStill, I'm happy that their shitty live service initiative is failing so hard and it's well deservedHopefully Bungie and Guerrilla will close down in a near future
>>738435429Microcock bought Activision, a purchase that has already paid itself back just from Candy Crush, Sony made the worst purchase at the time when you remember that.
>>738435681It means they're too scared to show just how bad the Bungie situation actually is
>>738435367Bungie finessed the deal of the century by scamming Sony from 3.6 billion dollars of their money.
>>738435761I wonder if the "costs keep going up" thing will keep working now that Nintendo is bringing prices back down to Wii era shit.
It's over.
>>738438178Funny how the usual subjects tried to spin that as an anti-consumer move
>>738436179>I don't understand why they didn't buy Bungie and then immediately fire 99% of the staffFunny story about that, Sony wanted to keep 99% of the staff after buying them, but then the Bungie execs fired them all anyways during Christmas day at that.
>>738438263Expected
>>738438372The capacity for evil of business executives is truly amazing.
>>738438263blast havers! we must do more! everyone BUY MORE SKINS!
>>738438263Is this calculated against what they spent from jan-march? or was it dude to their expectations for marathon being a big let down?
>>738434817Where are the 400.000 discord users? We need to pump these numbers right now!
LOL
>>738438604It seems there's panic behind the scenes.
>>738438263>I CALLED THE MOST OBVIOUS THING EVER GUYSgrifters are insufferable.
>>738438604If this was said regarding something Nintendo related not a single person would stop clowning on them. Grifters would be making videos about them as I type this
>>738438604so their valuation is lower AND they were a net negative.that means they prevented actual growth.quite literally worst case scenarioplebbits are literally drooling retards
>>738438604>even at their most delusionally optimistic, the best they can say is Sony threw over half a billion dollars down the drainoof
>company is a cough away from being put on life support>introduce digital ID so they can make money leaking (accidentally selling) people's dataCalifornia, not even once.
>>738438604>>738438660>>738438742>>738438747I dunno, Sony operating profit was still up 13.4 percent
>>738438815My great great great grandpappy's operational rationing on the oregon trail went up 300% by cannibalizing his wife and kids.
>>738438742and to save themselves, they keep closing down other studios and selling off their assets, all to keep the numbers up. bungie isn't worth it sony, sell them off and just take the loss.
>>738438604I genuinely cannot grasp how deluded these people are.
I still cannot fucking believe Sony were delusional enough to think Bungie was worth almost $4 billion
>>738436698Its honestly painful how little Sony touches their franchises Twisted Metal is just a tv series, No Ape Escape, No Sly, No Jak, No Parapa, No Lammy, No Killzone, No Resistance, No more Little Big Planet., No Gravity Rush, No Infamous, No Warhawks even Nintendo has done something with F-Zero and Starfox and they neglect those series just as much.
>>738438559Not directly on either. It's the "how much is this company worth?" It's also from destiny collapsing as well.
>>738437597This is major league power play shit here. It's not just removing hulst. Who do you have leading? What is your strategy?
>>738434817More brown lesbian movie games will fix this.
>>738435941Xbox can't offer anything compelling to make people switch really. You'll always have the "this game is not on Xbox issue". And you've always had it. But now Xbox doesn't offer any power/performance benefit like it had before. And no exclusives itself either. It's just a Playstation that occasionally misses a game release.
>>738438604>light billions on fire and shutter studio after sudio>”masterful gambit”christ lmao
>>738439159I'm honestly surprised Xbox got Bravely Default HD over Playstation Microsoft must have been real desperate.
>>738435172Ohhh…Husbant…You did not have enough blasts.Now Sony is homeress….
>>738439150I'm pretty sure they could replace that retard with an AI and it would be somehow less self-destructive.
>>738434817Its okay, I only want to play gta 6 and ff7r3, and Im done
>>738435761They already know they've been caught holding the bag from him and Jimbo's commiefornian regime. The projects that weren't too far along already got canceled while the ones that were have been pushed out to die and generate political power to take back the reigns from the West. It's an unironic humiliation ritual for the American branch.
>>738439303Yes, but this is major league corporate retard musical chairs. You don't pull Hulst without an actual person that the board agrees on.
>>738439385Why don't they just ask Grok?
>>738438604Why are these faggots defending Bungie so hard?
>>738435645Xbox is down by every single metric they provide for several quarters now. Btw they are releasing on PS and Switch now.
>>738439418I just did. It seems like they have Nishio slowly take over, as game after game bombs for hulst.
>>738439150Mother fucker, they're going to get rid of Hulst, centralize everything in Tokyo, Japan, and will most likely give the Team Asobi guy Hulst's position in order to get rid of all this cinematic and live-service shit for solid gameplay again.
Anyone got a link to nintendo's IR site?
>>738439551Probably because they're paid to. Or they have sony investments they're protecting.
>>738439385Hulst was already demoted back to his previous position, so they can pull his ass at any time, they already did it once with Shuhei.
>>738439652Results drop in the next 10 minutes, most likely:https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/index.html
>>738439614>>738439629LMAOOOOOOO you cannot possibly be this delusional
>>738439563Sure but Xbox didn't make THIS fuckup. It's also interesting that sony can fuck up THIS huge and still be in a stronger postion than xbox.Actually, it's maybe more accurate to say that all of MS is fucking shit up now.
>>738439629And then the drugs wore off.
>>738439629keep dreaming anon...
>>738439694Grok has spoken. The shareholder ritual has concluded. Hulst is out, Nishio is in. You may not like it but this is why peak business looks like.
>>738439690Someone said it was tomorrow, I was lied to
The financial documents still haven't been posted for some reason
>>738440071Maybe tomorrow? It's 3:10 PM in Japan rn.
>>738440240If it follows Japan time, then there's 9 hours left in the day for the release.
>>738434817Wonder how bad it'll be after the results of the price hikes on everything? Next quarter report will be very interesting as well.
>>738440289It's usually posted at around this time, at least that was the case back in February
>*Schedules are subject to change without noticeWell then
>>738438604You are literally not allowed to talk negatively about Sony or Playstation as a whole on the biggest gaming subreddits, it is their holy bacon cow in the sky.
>>738439694I think you're delusional, who's paying you to shill Hulst in a good light?
>>738434817Ohnononononono PS5 is dead as a doornail
>>738435429maybe for 1 billion. and even then thats a huge stretch
>>738439724>>738439806Nishino is already the sole CEO of SIE, Tokyo's already taking over, shills.
Destiny 1 was still burning people's asshair with how moneygrubby they were being, but relaunching that game just to sell players everything a second time REALLY didn't go over well for Bungie. All because they had some total tards at the studio's helm.
>>738434817>300 million and like 7 years in development for one map, 8 characters, and barely functioning gameplaywtf went wrong?
>>738434817TOTALSONYBANKRUPTCYSOOOON
>>738440698>Nishino is already the sole CEO of SIE, Tokyo's already taking over, shills.Can't tell if it's innocent optimism or just straight up delusional
>>738440784Sounds like you're coping
>>738437736Java is for older people or streamers, Bedrock is what the majority of people play. The majority of people also play stuff like Fortnite and Roblox on consoles or their phones, not PC.
Wait, according to VGchartz estimations PS5 sold around 3 million that quarter, so they for real juts DOUBLED the real numbers? Holy fuck why people keep on using them as a reliable source for numbers?
>>738440784Its either acpedo or eric doing preemptive damage control before Nintendo's financials drop
>>738440827>Sounds like you're copingThat should be my line though.
>People unironically buy ps5 just to play Fortnite and Chinese gachas Yikes
>>738440845Those poor whippersnappers. Actually eating slop.
>>738435109Jesus
>>738440953this is blast having
>>738440953
>>738440953>Here's why this is actually a good thing...
>>738434817>Marathon turned a profit afterallSo, Bungie's gonna get away with it, huh?
>>738440953Thats one expensive blast
>>738434817>>1.5M PS5's sold. Down from 2.6M last quarter.>>Lowest quarter on record and that's before the latest price hikes.AHAHAHAHA HAHA TOTAL SNOYNY DEATH
>>738440953you can probably buy the entierity of Uganda with that money lol
>>738441078i thought there was a massive push for people to buy before the price hike? what happened?
>>738441053It didn't turn a profit. It made SOME profit. It didn't break even
>Raised the Switch 2 Region locked japan sku price>Raised the Switch 2 by 50$ everywhere elseStill the cheapest option but this is a massive fuckup, damn. Expect to never hear the end of it despite the fact USED ps5s saw prices increases too a week ago.I think this will kill the Switch 2
>>738441053Playstation turned a profit, not Marathon.
>>738437063To be fair there zero reason to expect nintendo's not to be good regardless. Whatever they're doing it's working.
>>738441228they will raise it by 30 euros here in yurop, seems like the new price is starting in september so atleast people have time to get it at the original price.
>>738434817concord now marathon please have a third bomb I would be so happy for sony to die after what they did to the jap ecchi games.
>>738441228Meh, most people were already paying $500 with the MKW bundle.
>>738438604blast havers truly live in a world of their own
>>738441228You're going to need a source for this because this hasn't happened.
>>738441368here ya gohttps://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2026/260508.html
>>738441385>https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2026/260508.htmlI stand corrected. Well they held out far longer than I thought they would that's for sure.
Is it still alive?
>>738441385Damn. That sucks.
>>738441385>price hike won't happen till Septemberwow, why announce it so far away?
>>738441462They held out far longer, raised the price far less and actually gave (most) of the world time to actually get one for the original price without panic buying it like sony did with the PS5, yet I can guarantee people will see this price raise as satan itself.
>>738441053>Marathon turned a profit afterallDidn't it make 75 and cost 300?
>GTA normgroids will fund my updates Good, get to it then. No, I won't buy skins. You will add content and map updates, for free. Chop chop.
>Switch 2 Japan only sku price increase goes live May 25th>Switch 2 global price increase goes live September 1stWell at least they're keeping it as is for as long as possible.Switch 2 almost at 20 million as of March 31st, exact numbers are 19.86 million. Based on the famitsu charts, it hit 20 million by the third week of April
>>738441732>20 million Switch 2 sold in 9 monthsFUCKING HELL
>>738441732It still sucks as that extra $50 will intimidate some buyers. Also the online is going up, but seemingly only in Japan.
>>738434817>>1.5M PS5's sold. Down from 2.6M last quarterSwitch 2 sold 2x more lmao
>>738434817>1.5M PS5's sold. Down from 2.6M last quarter.Why why why why why why would console sales ever increase? If everyone has one, why are MORE ever gonna be sold? So that people who already own that console can have backups? This shit makes no sense.
>>738441638bro thinks the game will still be there by the time gta 6 comes out
>>738441732is the price increase because of the whole iran thing i wonder? since fuel prices increases everything, including plastic. and Sony did their price increase BEFORE the iran situation popped off, so will Sony do another price hike?
>>738441979Yeah, online is going up only in Japan. Being kept the same everywhere else>>738441979The increase is not nearly as big as a lot of people were praying it would be, but as far as I'm concerned it's still a terrible move and will only bite them in the ass, which to be fair they're fully aware of given they do not expect to sell 20 million more consoles by the end of March 2017. The news of this price increase will be hear even in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, Africa unlike with the other two.
>>738435874They also convinced Sony to not do TLoU2 multiplayer and okay’d Concord.
sony stock is up in overnight trading, probably doesn't mean too much low volume but still i want to see it bleed tomorow
>>738442143Assumptions for the FY27 Financial Forecast• Regarding the impact of U.S. tariff measures, the forecast takes into account the tariff rates in effectas of the end of March 2026.• An impact of approximately 100.0 billion yen due to rising component prices, particularly for memory, andtariff measures has been factored into costs of goods sold.• Assumed exchange rates are 150 yen per U.S. dollar and 175 yen per eurotl;dr, tariffs and rampocalypse
>>738435168They blasted right through any hopes of profitability.
>>738434817>hardware isn’t selling >massive AAA live service projects aren’t selling>woke movie slop isn’t selling We told them to stick to Japan. But they just wouldn’t listen.
>>738439629what blackmail material does hulst have on sony japan
>>738438604>spend half a decade in business school>make shittier decisions than your average highschool dropout incelThis whole economy is so fake and gay its unreal
>>738443202Wait until you find out that businesses run on literal crystal ball forecasts (on which real people's livelihoods depend on) and that econ "science" is entirely based on (mostly wrong) assumptions and survivorship bias
TIME FOR A COLD ONE FELLOW CHUDS
>>738443357I once heard something like, "if the half life of knowledge for psychology is 5 years, for economics its 1 year"
>>738442187>and okay’d Concord.absolute mad lads lmao
>>738443373based
>>738442321being a customer in the gaming industry is like being cassandra from troy.
Marathon is The Raped
>>738441496FOMO over getting it at $400
>>738434817https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW_fDlJtmVM
>>738440953blasting the money directly off their pockets
>>738434817>FY2026 Forecast>(+) Increase in sales of first-party game software titles>(+) Impact of increase in sales of first-party game software titlesWhat do they even have? Wolverine and that Druckmann slop?
I love watching Sony go extinct.
>>738446818I think that the bald lesbian game is scheduled for 2027
>>738436078Reminder ziony loves to pad out these numbers with "revenue", which is to say if they made 1000 bucks from a single sucker whaling for gacha in a day, then they count that full number as incoming money despite only taking their skim and giving the rest to the chink gacha dev.And this is without considering whatever the fuck else they are cooking the books with.I repeat, even with that literal jew-tier book cooking, they are still nearly a fucking billion in the red.
>>738446818Jewslop isn't coming out for two years minimum
>>738446818Surely Fairgame$ makeup for Bungie's losses. It releases this year.
>>738447223wasn't it in ALPHA like a year ago? i seriously doubt its releasing this year
>>738439629>and will most likely give the Team Asobi guy Hulst's positionThe literal kike? Like, LITERAL jew? That's gonna nuke the kikestation even harder anon.
>>738447897sony's strongest soldiers...
>>738447282>MFW they eventually announce the cancellation of Fairgame$ after Marathon shuts down
>>738447223>surely the next flop is going to make the previous flop look not as bad
>>738441053It made $-225 million in profit.
> If circumstances change going forward, we plan to manage the impact on profitability by flexibly adjusting, among other things, unit sales and promotional plans in our studio business. Earnings from Bungie's title portfolio did not reach our expectations. So we downwardly revised our business plan and impaired the full amount of the fixed assets related to Bungie, except for goodwill.>Player receptions to Marathon is strong, with the game receiving a Metacritic score of 82, and more than 90% of the player reviews on steam being positive. Engagement metrics, such as retention, also remain at a high level. Going forward, we aim to improve the performance of the game by working to retain highly engaged core users through the introduction of additional content. Further improvements in the gameplay experience and expansion of the user base.From the earnings call. Weren’t you all gloating how this was going to be a death sentence for Marathon? 8th May this 8th May that. Meanwhile this confirms that the engagement and retention is really good and that they’re going to stick with it. Tired of losing yet?
>>738441053>>738441186i apologize if i am the retard here, but doesn't something have to break even first before it makes anything considered a profit?
>>738448281After nearly 5.5 billion worth of costs, including the 3 billion and half to acquire the studio, another billion and half to retain employees (it didn't work) and the actual development costs.
>>738441053They made 75 million on a game that cost 300 million to make. That's not profit, that's straight loss.
>>738448352Aren't you tired of washing corporate dick with your tongue? You posted this in the other thread, too: >>738447940 you nasty little shill.
>>738448389>on a game that cost 300 million to makeyou are nearly 5 billion off
>>738448383i seriously wonder if older game devs, that were only limited by budget but still put out some of the best games of all time, are seeing stuff like this and just absolutely fuming
>>738448443I'm obviously not counting the Bungie acquisition. That's its own massive loss even worse than the game's production versus revenue since Bungie right now is starting off as a net loss on Sony's revenue sheet. Absolutely fucking abysmal performance. Someone high up is definitely getting fired for this.
>>738448383Sounds like a solid AAAA investment lmao
>>738448427Why would you begrudge me gravedancing when you all have been doing the same for 2 months? You all lost. It’s here to stay.
>>738448543You are *in* a grave. You have literally no room to dance.
>>73844835210,000 players
>>738448543If it's here to stay, it means they intend to pump its remaining players for every last shekel they can to make back development cost, meaning you'll be paying a full game's price for every half assed DLC.
>>738448543...what exactly did we lose? none of us wasted money the game lmaoi would have bought a physical copy to go on the shelf of shame with Concord, Dustborn and Veilguard, but they didn't even make physical copies of Marathon. it's extremely telling that they had no confidence in it.
>>738448624fewer than 4500 right now :^)
>>738448621You were anticipating this date with glee and guess what, nothing happened. I still boot up the game and play it when I want to have fun, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Now go and figure out the next date for the next earnings call, we’ll talk then. Until then, accept that you lost.
>>738448680Bodied that freak
Telling that the only win marafloppers can claim today is that their game isn't being shut down.
>>738434817lol
>>738448680>>738448727Samefagger. The string suspending the sword of Damocles has been snipped and you're too fucking gay to even try to avoid the impending result.
>>738448624Couldn't break 15k peak today, we'll see how the weekend goes if it can back to last weekend's peak, but I expect at least a thousand player drop from last week's numbers.
>>738448754>concord 3>It’ll shut down in a week >in a month >on 8th may, the earnings callYou are here>after S1>after the year I accept this as your concession. /v/ lost.
>>738448360You are correct. Anons should not be using the word profit anywhere in the vicinity of Marathon. Profit is the gain after expenses are paid.
>>738434817Usually Sony do not call out underperforming specifics like that. This is the company that put the Vita with PSP, phones and laptop into one section to cover up how bad it did.In my opinion this is a signal that Bungie will be massively downsized by Sony rather soon because clearly it is not worth it keeping all these people hired that produce 1 game in 10 years that consumed hundreds of millions of dollarry doos.
>>738448352>Engagement metrics, such as retention, also remain at a high levelThat's a straight up lie, they lost 70% of the playerbase in two months.
>>738448841GTA VI, Genshin, Fortnite and COD MTX pay for my game. I don’t care. Sony literally just said it’s here to stay. Go shit yourself now and watch more charts.
>>738435874No you haven’t seen the D3 or equivalent project yet. That’s going to be a 500mil apocalypse that snaps bungie in half or becomes another billion dollar game. Marathon is a Sony deal requirement that bungie used to overhaul dev assets instead kek
Just saying, Patapon has always made a profit
>>738448790>sir you samefag sir you can't possibly play a videogame on the gacha and softcore porn culture war boardI'd post my play time but I'm posting from the toilet. Those garbage threads don't deserve better.
>>738448836>>concord 3>>It’ll shut down in a weekffs, you can't even pretend to be this retarded.nobody said a week, and if it did only last a week, they'd call it Concord 0 since Concord 1 lasted more than a week at least
>>738448895They're basing that statement on the end of March's numbers, which is sneaky and thoroughly in character for both SIE and Bungle.
>>738435774>Microsoft decided not to buy Bungie more specifically because they thought Bungie had management issues and were burning through moneyThey would know. They worked with them before and that was when budgets werent was retarded high as now.
>>738448986I don't care to know your playtime, you cultist.
>>738449032I can't believe shareholders fall for this shit
>>738447046That's some good book-cooking. Actually, wasn't it just this year that PS4 can't log-in to Genshin Impact anymore? Losing Hoyo's gacha whales is probably huge considering how jew Hoyo is and how whaley their whales are.
If they gave me marathon for like under 20 bucks or included in psplus i would have had a blast too, but unfortunate there were no blasts for me or their financials...
>>738448383So this is the power of business majors... sasuga.
>>738449137i had exactly one blast when i played the server slam for free. that's all i needed. it's a really good thing they tested those servers tell you hwat
I just checked and the mathematicals are not looking good...
>>738446818>Guerrilla Games - last Horizon slopfest was like 5 years ago>Media Molecule - Dreams came out in 2020, haven't released a PS5 game>Naughty Dog - Dr. Uckmann's bald lesbian simulator will flop next year>Bend Studio - last game was Days Gone in 2019>Housemarque - Returnal 2 Electric Boogaloo just game out, no word on sales>Insomniac - Wolverine will sell gangbusters on name alone even though their games are mediocre>Santa Monica - making another God of War game?>Bungie - Marathon flopped, probably going to be shut down in the next 12 months unless things turn around>Sucker Punch - Ghost of Yotei sold less than Ghost of Tsushima>Team Asobi - Astro Bot was great, going to be under pressure to repeat its success
Saw an interesting tweet from JP that say gacha is one of big reason PS5 is still alive over there, because newer gacha games size are so big and they can't fit all of them in their phone, so many gamers buy PS5 to play them instead.
>>738439159>But now Xbox doesn't offer any power/performance benefit like it had before.Series X is literally the strongest console on the market still.
>>738449649Gachafags are not human
>>738435336>>738440776>>738442216lmao retardsSony makes so much money out of PS+ subs, their camera sensors and Music division (thanks to streaming) that they are building up a super stack of cash in order to buy out Blackstone's entire ownership of HpgnosisSony is essentially telling investors that they can tank a $6 billion loss and still have another $6 bilion left to buy music rights from songs that released 50-30 years ago
>>738446818Well Herman Hulst is still going to push his new concordxhorizon bullshit
>>738449649>many gamers buy PS5 to play them instead.Well, seems like there isn't that many of them
Most of the money SIE makes is from PS+ and the 30% marketplace cut. It’s exactly like Valve but even more lucrative since console players spend FAR more on mtx than Steam (eg: look at GTA V numbers released by TakeTwo) they can continue tanking losses like this easily it’s not a problem at all
>>738438559It's internal calculation, and it's something they will do in business calls continually, a "little" at a time, like sneaking in medicine into the stock-holders' dinner. Since if they just come out and say:>We spent close to 4 billy total on this shitass company and billions more on games made with their expertise>We got close to nothing in return, all that money is wasted>Sorry!Their stock craters. So Bungie is being killed a little at a time to save Sony face.
Wonder who made this thread...
>out of the entire live service push Sony wasted billions of dollars on, the only game that was a actual success was Helldivers 2>And they don't even own the game or the studio so they are free to leave if they feel like itThis shit is going down as the worst business move in vidyaYes even worse than the Xbone and Genesis add ons
>>738451679The Xbone was worse as Microsoft has yet to recover from the damage not that they're really trying but this live service will certainly be looked back as a dark point.
>>738451619Who made the sales report?
>>738448352I'm glad Sony's sticking with Marathon for as long as possible. Bungie should bleed as much money out of Sony as they can before they die.
>>738434817>>Lowest quarter on record and that's before the latest price hikesOuch
This thread is dying faster than Sony's creditability.
>>738454429Have to deflect and make 100 Nintendoom threads to cover it
>>738434817Oh no no no Blasthavers… we had the vibes shifted…
>>738434817>Sales still good years into the PS5's life>Increase in operating income>Impairment loss because they overpaid for BungieSony is a weird company because they have this protection from their retarded decision. Yeah buying Bungie and making Marathon was dumb but its OK because PS5 still sells, people still buy games and people keep subbing to PSN. If Sony just have competent management they'd be 10 times more successful than they are but they'll shot themselves in the foot over the dumbest thing
>>738434817Sony embraces AI slop too. Haven't seen too many talk about that. Sounds like Sony's making another huge mistake.
>>738456542>AI slopThey're not alone in that at least.
In retrospect I can't stop laughing at the "JUST WAIT FOR GTA 6 BRO, IT'LL SAVE PS5 AND THE INDUSTRY." But now in 2026 we have literal fucking Sony fanboys saying Sony should deadass wait to launch PS6 in 2029-2030 LMAO
>>738456745It’s more funny because in the report they explicitly say they don’t expect GTA6 to boost console sales that much
>>738456274>one million less sales than last quarter BEFORE the price increase>good salessay that when next quarter sony sells under a million
>>738458613This year isn't going to be pretty for the PS5 before Black Friday when they sell their consoles for clearance prices to reach their annual projections.
>>738436136https://translate.kagi.com/?from=Corporate+doublespeak&to=en
>>738447223Sony should host a live stream where some nips personally fire everyone at haven studios, one after the other.Then I'll buy a PS5.
>>738434817B-but Marathon was a success! My discord friends told me!
>>738441979I think having a $499 model on the shelves since launch is going to somewhat soften the psychological impact for people
>>738435947Im an older millennial and I spend alot more on games than others probably but its like collectors edition physicals, high end television, at the arcade and stuff, id never spend on live service currency and I wouldn't imagine others who grew up in my era would?
Buy Nintendo
