Kotaku: For Westerners, the conditions are shocking. Workers slave away for hours on end, pulling overtime, until their legs swell or they suffer from crippling disabilities.
PlayStation Plus has improved the split of PS4 and PS5 players on its priciest tiers, but Sony continues to hide total subscriber numbers.
I for one will be going back to essential at the next renewal. When I feel a game is good & right up my alley, I’ll check trusted reviews & just buy it.
I would like to see Sony add a fourth tier of PS Plus for people who just want to be able to play games online without any of the perks like monthly games, store discounts, or anything like that, and it should cost $20 annually, $30 maximum. There’s no way I’m paying $80 just to play games online. Even the original $60 fee was too much, and I would often wait for sales to re-up my subscription.
Just let my subscription lapse for the first time since 2010. Will sub again every now and then for a month or so to access my old ps+ games but for me it's the end of an era.
Let those numbers continue to drop because it is now too expensive. $80 per year just to play online. I noticed they didn't offer any discounts on the subscription or controllers during this year's days of play for the first time in many years and they will feel it when people choose not to renew.
My subscription will lapse next month and it will stay that way until further notice.
During Sony’s recent business segment meeting and investor presentation regarding its game and network services, the PlayStation company revealed that PlayStation 5 is the company’s “most profitable generation to-date.”
It’s the top slide of the presentation, showing that in its first four years, the PS5 generation has already hit $106 billion in sales, having almost caught up to the PS4’s total $107 billion generated.
Operating income for the PS5 generation has also already surpassed that of the PS4, having now reached $10 billion.
I wouldn't doubt it. They released a high quality system. A lot of high quality games from themselves and their support of 3rd party developers and indies. They released many high quality remakes and remasters. They released a high quality GaaS game going against the naysayers thinking Sony would abandon single player games. And they most likely are profiting a lot more than PS1, PS2 PS4 and the loss leading PS3 that drained all their profits.
Now, I'll wait to see what's cooking tomorrow. But can you use some of those profits to better support your high quality VR headset? Because, by supporting it, you can sell more games and more systems and make more profits?
This will surely shut up all the new trolling accounts trying to spread lies and non facts in other articles comment sections before this article is posted.
Wow! I am super impressed that in just 4 years, ps5 already caught up to the PS4's. Congratulations.
The Xbox brand has done a lot of good over the years, but their various blunders are pretty wild to look back on in their magnitude.
Ironically number 9 can save them at this point (releasing games on multiple platforms)
Phil Spencer is the worst that has happened to Xbox.
They built a respectable brand up to Xbox one. Then this guy took over and things became a joke
Really good video.
I remember the days with RRoD was big news on here, N4G.
Microsoft had it turbulence number of years.
Looking at the success of Sea of Thieves despite being 6 years old, time to release Halo, Forza horizon 4 & 5 on PS5. It'll help their revenue
I found this video painful to watch. Can someone list them out?
Top 10 for me from are:
1. 2013 reveal presentation
2. Bundling Kinect 2 with Xbox One
3. RRoD or why rushing to market with hardware is always a bad idea.
4. Buying studios only to close them.
5. Ads on the Home Screen
6. Letting Halo die.
7. Letting Geard of War die.
8. Every console name
9. Charging for Xbox Live on Xbox 360 when Sony let PS3 players play online for free.
10. Cancelling release of OG Xbox games after the Xbox 360 launched.
If the PS3 was made in america at launch it would have cost more than $600. Blame consumers not Sony, M$, of Apple.
Honestly, I would be happy enough paying a lot more for hardware. Think about how useful it is to you and how great it really is that we, as a species, are able to achieve so much - so we should at least appreciate the people working on the production lines. But the truth is, IT equipment production lines are some of the best jobs available in many areas. If these industries weren't going so strong (partially because of how cheap it is here), there would be a lot more struggling families in those areas.
Everyone is to blame. There are ways that we could shift away from a consumption-based society. No one is willing to do anything to change it.
What bothers me the most is when people complain and say that we should be "buying American", yet they ignore or are ignorant of the fact that the Chinese are slaving away at 35 cents an hour (confirmed, by the way, not an exaggeration) to make their favorite product. "Give those jobs to Americans" is the height of naivety because a business isn't going to pay $15+ per hour when they could pay 35 cents on that hour for someone to do the same job. Unemployment in America is high partly because Americans are entitled and refused to get enough education to become better workers than Chinese workers. The same people that scream for more "American" jobs, support companies that take jobs overseas, like the first poster. They are missing the central irony of their position. If people are concerned in anyway about human rights violations in China, they need to be prepared to bite the bullet and accept the fact that American companies are a cog in the wheels of that situation. Of course, many Chinese would be starving if not for those jobs, and it is the restrictions of the Chinese government that are the most to blame for the human rights problems.
I know nintendo cares.
All some care about is cheap, the 360 proved that. Not just because it was cheaper, but even without hdmi and even with rrod, people prefered to buy a cheap and faulty device over an expensive and reliable one.
Mind you, its not like you were paying two different prices for exactly the same machine. The differences in price reflected in features. HDMI, Built in Wireless, Blu Ray, Linux, Memory Card Slots, Bluetooth, a history and long list of franchises and a few other features.