As far as I know they already lose money selling them because they make way more money through PS plus and the PS store
Comment on Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’
los_chill@programming.dev 2 months ago
Lower the price.
Fisch@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
and curb scalpers
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 2 months ago
I wish they did the opposite. Release a €999 PS5 Pro with specs that justify that price.
BumbleBeeButt@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yep, the ps2 was half the launch price by this part of the cycle.