"Consoles being too expensive" would be a cause to the market shrinking, yes, but that doesn't change the result.
The only negative thing about it is that it missed Sony's initial guidance (twice) which implies that they weren't expecting PS5 to peak until a few months later. In isolation the results are amazing.
Good point. FY24 wont have any tentpole first-party games. They already confirmed that they are expecting them in FY25 and FY26.
The second miss is pretty much rounding error. They pretty much hit their forecast. It's not even slight it's a fractional difference.
I do hope for another 8 year generation. The current one still feels like it's only now getting off the ground. Releasing mid-generation souped up consoles like the Pros does help in achieving that. I'll certainly be getting PS5 Pro day 1, just like I did for the PS4 Pro.
As far as we know we will get Destiny 2: The Final Shape, Concord (Sony's big AAA FPS game), the Until Dawn Remake and a new Astro Bot game
I agree, but overall they missed their initial guidance by 4m units and that probably affected this quarter's performance. My main point is that although the quarter overall is great, it's obvious that in combination with Sony's announced shift in strategy (at least on the level of intentions for now), they weren't expecting the past fiscal year to unfold the way it did. The is nothing catastrophic about it though.
Idk how it works out that way for anyone anymore. Streaming services weren't anywhere near the time sink they are now back then. So much shit is competing for your time in a way that wasn't as intense in the late aughts.
The biggest thing holding me back is the price. I've been close to getting one though
Forecasts are meant to change, thats what a forecast is for Though, esp when component prices shot up, they probally were expecting to do a price cut (which they mentioned that the sales of PS5 were extremely close to PS4 with PS4 having a 100 dollar price cut) so instead of choosing to sell more units they pivoted to having more revenue and kept prices high. That's really all there is there for it. And we know even more thats the case based on Totoki talking about margins a while back so thats more than likely why their forecast was cut.
Yeah, it was almost exactly a year into the PS4's life cycle.
Next time it will be a further 1 million behind, so yeah, nope. This was probably THE chance they had to pass PS4, don't see it happening anymore.PS5 to PS4-
