No they don’t. These are player counts, not sales. If people are playing their old copy of Skyrim instead of buying Starfield, Microsoft loses.
“Sifu” is the perfect PS+ game for me. I’m not sure I’d like it so I’d never buy it. But I would like to try it.
“Everyone always says that longer is better when it comes to games”
100% not true. The majority of people don’t finish games, and “short” games continue to sell. I think the gaming audience has long moved past the dollar per hour fallacy.
The latest iPhone already has more graphical power than a PS4. I think Nintendo is going to have to spec Switch 2 a little higher if they want to convince people to upgrade.
Nowadays? You never saw the box art for “Wargasm”?
I feel like I can blame Microfost mote because they spent more than $80B to buy Zenimax and Activision and then fired a bunch of those workers.
Microsoft is a $3,000,000,000,000. Comparing Microsoft to Sony will never be an apples to apples comparison.
This is 100% not related to Sony not having first party games in 2024. For one, we don’t know that Sony won’t have any first party games. For two, Sony still makes up to 30% of the sales of new game on PSN and we know that the PlayStation install base is growing and digital sales are growing. I think these layoffs were going to happen no matter what, because the entire tech industry has decided they can do more with less.
“Most likely getting rid of diversity hires”
Kids, don’t get your business news from right wing media.
Microsoft laid off a thousands across the company, including in the Xbox division, before buying Activision and more recently 1900 employees from Activision studios. Every tech company and game publisher is laying off workers. Maybe margins on software are falling. Maybe they expect AI to pick up the slack for less.
Mmmmhmmm
Sony’s mission is to generate value for shareholders, so yes, PSVR2 needs sales on PC. This goes nicely with Sony’s sales of monitors, controllers, and headphones to PC players.
What does the CPU have to do with GTA V frame rates?
Last gen was the first time we saw a mid-cycle upgrade and the bump in power was in the GPU and not the CPU. Compatibility needs to be 100%.
"One comment says it's a 1.6x jump on paper, whereas the PS4 Pro was more like a 2.2x" Don’t waste your time with rumors. But if true, not unexpected. We are working at 4k resolutions now and that means higher frame rates are that much harder to achie...
You couldn’t be more wrong about there being “very few games”. My backlog is only increasing because of the number of new games that I don’t have time to play.
A lot of folks like to point to Nintendo as a sign of growth but Nintendo only has one console now compared to two back in the Wii / DS days. Overall, Nintendo is selling 100M fewer units than a couple of generations ago.
PS5 is growing marketshare at the apparent expense of Xbox. Overall the number of potential PS5 and Xbox owners has not increased in the last two generations.
Agree on not upgrading a 4 year old console. Disagree that PS5 “there are barely any exclusive games”. Disagree on the need for exclusives to upgrade. Third party support matters more.
Game Pass Ultimate costs $204 per year which is a lot more than the $70 Call of Duty released each year. Microsoft would love to convert all Xbox owners into Game Pass subscribers.
I own a PS5, not Sony stock. I don’t care who makes the games so long as I enjoy playing them.
20 years ago we paid $60 for a game that had a 10 hour campaign and tacked on multiplayer. Well, I didn’t pay $60. I borrowed most of my games from my friends. And now I get most of my games from PS+. The way I see, people will only spend so much on games. This is the market.
All these layoffs and no one hiring is going to push talent out of the games industry forever.