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Sony FY 2023 Q1: PS5 shipments top 41.7 million (3.3 million in Q1)
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Meanwhile Respawn and Rockstar announce PS4 games. Respawn is even worst with their port of Survivor probably not releasing till '24.
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21.7 million more PS5s to go to hit their goal of 25 million. With the way things are shaping up with sales in multiple regions, Q2 should be massive. Then we have Spider-Man 2 dropping in Q3 and the revision launching somewhere in Q2 or Q3.
Good results for SIE.
Good results for SIE.
I don't think "even worse" is the way to describe those situations. It's not a bad thing at all.
They both make sense, especially for Rockstar. It's a remaster of a 13-year-old PS3 game. There's literally no reason to spend money developing an extra version of the game for PS4 when you can just develop a PS4 version and cover both install bases, as the game would be identical on both anyway.
The Respawn situation is definitely a little more noteworthy but I highly doubt that will become a common occurrence and I expect Jedi to be one of the very few AAA current gen releases that later gets ported down to PS4. These games have simply become expensive as hell to make and that extra revenue stream is good for Respawn.
It's also a much more preferable way to handle cross gen games: fully focus on the current gen version and then port it after, which should alleviate fears that the current gen version is hampered by it.
Digital sales heavily skew to the catalogue sales (so big discounts). With new releases the split is still more even (of course depends on the game).
i'd like to know if that's unit sales or in terms of gross revenue.
meaning, i wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to start forming a narrative of digital sales are the way of the future by not showing the full picture.
edit: this is not the case. it's just not mentioned.
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They are also on the cusp of moving towards digital standard systems.
It was 79% last Q1, so thats actually an improvement towards Physical.
Unit sales.
Considering they didn't revise their profits down as they expect 3rd party sales and a reduction in costs to make up for the loss from the delays, it's probably just something small like Spider-Man 2 and Helldivers 2 releasing later than they expected 3 months ago.
thanks for the clarification. that number is interesting but it's annoying we don't know the split in terms of digital revenue and physical revenue.
Im kinda glad Sony's seemingly teasing a optional separate disc drive accessory - Im honestly fine with going down that road for a future console, mainly for my back catalogue of stuff I already have physically. Would suck to have to get it all again if I wanted to play it on newer consoles.
We do, 153 Billion Yen for Digital games sold and 24 Billion Yen for Physical games. Both are an increase (50 Billion and 5 Billion respectively) Year over Year.
does the 153 billion yen come from games-only or is that a catch-all for digital business? sorry - looked through the sources and can't find this myself.
Digital games only. Add-on content itself is almost 212 billion Yen.
great! thank you. the add-on content and split with normal game sales was what i was most curious about. and that is pretty incredible. 212 billion yen in dlc is more than digital and physical game revenue combined.
Yeah, we live in a world where at least on PlayStation people spend more money on overpriced $20 skins than they spend on actual games.
Yes we truly are. This is me every time I read anything about that split:
We had a good run though.
Tbf, the big difference is partly because Sony includes the money they have to give to the 3rd party devs (~70%) for digital/add-on revenue.
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Playstation is doomed.
Yeah I'd be okay with that too. If not I'd just have to keep the console forever like I did with the PS3 and PS2 lol But there's no denying that digital really is taking over.
Jim Ryan needs to break the emergency glass and release PS All-Stars 2 to save Playstation.
That world has been everywhere for over a decade, and its dominated mobile and PC even longer.
The first GaaS succes that paved the way for all this dates a bit over 20 years ago, afterwards it was all downhill.
Spiderman 2's collector's edition is digital code with a steelbook, as was GoW:R before. End of an era.
That's completely skewed by the fact that there are so many small/mid digital only titles.
That is a reasonable consequence of also selling a digital-only console. Was always going to happen with the release of PS5 Digital.