Sony’s PS5 sales are down 29% YoY for the last quarter, missed 21M (20.8M) mark for FY2023, FY2024 target 18M
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Love idiots trying to spin Sony selling more consoles in a year than they ever have as a negative thing.
That's an extremely negative take on what is largely a very, very, very good financial report. Obviously it's all factual, but it's missing some crucial context I think, like the fact that original sales target was incredibly aggressive and PS5 had only just become readily available during the same period last year.
Maybe they'll finally officially drop the price.
That and a PS5 Pro will probably help pad the numbers a little bit.
I'm not even sure who you're talking about. You're the second reply in the thread.
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Yeah, but not unexpected from Tom Warren.
He's talking about Tom Warren lol. The tweet is correct but sounds much more negative than it actually is.
What a weird way to frame this by Tom. These are excellent sales, a drop from the stratospheric height that Sony hit last year is to be expected.
The title of this thread is enough even though its factual, the narrative of this thread may be that its a bad result even though the result itself still very good.
Literally saw his article on Bloomberg talking about how Sony has no plans to release first party titles from their major IP such as God of War and....Bloodborne and now I just wonder if Mochizuki hates Sony because they ignore Bloodborne.
I think the biggest news is we're likely gonna have a console gen where only Nintendo outsold its predecessor consoles
Last fiscal year they shipped 19.1M consoles, this fiscal year they shipped 20.8M consoles. Full year over year sales are up.
Q4 (January-March) is down year over year because in that time last year was when Sony solved the supply issue, so there was a lot of pent up demand.
Q4 (January-March) is down year over year because in that time last year was when Sony solved the supply issue, so there was a lot of pent up demand.
It's a little frustrating, though, because there's already this misaligned narrative spreading that Sony's console business is failing in the same way as Microsoft's console business is. Obviously they both have issues, but one is not like the other.
This context-less portrayal of what are, admittedly, facts just further feeds a false narrative, because people won't look beyond the initial headline.
The results look terrible in this thread title, but that's not the actual reality.
I'm talking about Tom and his post that led to this thread. It's no surprise at all to see him come at it with a negative spin
I believe it was no games in existing tentpole franchises or something as eloquently corporate. No sequels, basically.
Except those numbers show the opposite. Those are very good numbers.
Expecially people who upgrade from a base PS5 to a Pro would spend the same amount of money as for a gaming PC with slightly better specs and the option to upgrade specific parts.
I forgot about it lol
That will certainly help, assuming they don't price it too high.
Didn't Sony say they can't cut the base price significantly for the rest of the generation?
Yep. If the console market ever starts growing again it won't be this gen
PlayStation doesn't just rely on 1st party games to move consoles it's the go to console for 3rd party games
You'd think someone with a huge following on twitter would do a basic research, but eh. Engagement sells.
The PS5 and PS4 is a difference of like 800k at this point despite the PS5 being much harder to get and quite a bit more expensive and the PS5 will probably be around quite a bit longer I think, so less "likely" and more just a possibility at this stage.
Oh, I guess it's not the best way to frame it. Was taken aback by the jump to insulting the guy over reporting on sales numbers.
But yeah, he should probably have a follow-up tweet that adds context, given that this doesn't tell the whole story.
They are good numbers but Sony had originally forecast 25 million then revised that down when it clearly wasn't possible and still missed the revised forecast. That's not good for Sony.
They missed last year's target.
They're down 29% Year-on-Year.
Sony set their own target, it's not like somebody imposed some overly aggressive target on them. This is Sony failing against their own measure, and doing even worse this year.
That's not spin, that's just reality.
A couple days ago he literally tried to imply the Helldivers 2 debacle was worse than Microsoft closing studios and laying people off.
There's a huge number of games already out there for people who are only just getting round to picking up a PS5, you don't need to be looking ahead to some undetermined point in the future to enjoy some quality titles.
On top of that you've got 3rd party titles like CoD, FiFA, Madden, NBA, FF, Fortnite etc which are huge sellers that people want to play. Combine that with a system that has a large catalogue of PS only titles and it's not surprising to see it still sell incredible well even without anything on the horizon.