Comment on Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’

los_chill@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• BumbleBeeButt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep, the ps2 was half the launch price by this part of the cycle.

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• Fisch@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As far as I know they already lose money selling them because they make way more money through PS plus and the PS store

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Consoles never really make money.

    The money is locking consumers in your ecosystem, which is why exclusives used to be a big deal. Now they’d rather their games be available to people on other consoles since they bought up too many studios

    Like, Xbox wants everyone that owns a Xbox to buy COD for Xbox. But they also can’t limit it to Xbox because a bunch of ps5 people would buy it if they could. So it’s better to sell thru ps5 then losing all those potential customers that will never buy an Xbox.

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    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is only half true. They are loss leaders early in their lifecycle, but almost (looking at you PS3) always profitable 2-3 years into production due to paying down initial costs of production and efficiencies developed during production.

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  and curb scalpers

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• BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wish they did the opposite. Release a €999 PS5 Pro with specs that justify that price.

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