>a leading position
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>712520440 (OP)
>world class franchises
Really?

>>712520440 (OP)
They don't consider Nintendo or Steam competitors, please understand they have a leading position over Xbox.

>>712520479
Everyone's so hyped for uh, Marathon and Fairgames :)

>>712520529
Yeah everyone loved TLOU 2, totally has enduring franchises. No games for Uncharted since 4, GOWR sucked. Sony really really really sucks at making good sequels

>>712520529
>Fairgames
>Marathon
>Unannounced Horizon Zero Dawn sequel
Damn!!! Playstation fans FEASTING

>>712520582
Uncharted movie 120 million budget, 407 million box office.
TLOU seasons I've seen nothing but negativity on youtube.
Did anyone even watch Twisted Metal? For that matter why didn't make live service or a new game for Twisted Metal? That was one of the cool franchises they had

>>712520701
>strong early engagement

>>712520776
>highly anticipated
Is it though? The first game was Ubisoft tier

>>712520849
>powerhouse franchises
Fire Druckmann then, he's keeping you back

>>712520929
Some investors, to be quite honest, are concerned that the improved specifications of the Switch 2 and Nintendo's improved relationships with third-party publishers will lead to tougher competition for PlayStation in the next few years. What do you think about those concerns?

Nishino: "Yeah, so we closely monitor the kind of overall gaming industry, including the action of other market participants. Additionally, the catalyst in the market is great for the industry as a whole and as they invigorate the excitement and demand more broadly. So it's great to have people launching new things. However, as I mentioned previously, we have a differentiated strategy. So PlayStation 5 is designed for an immersive gaming experience and this includes the innovative DualSense controller features as well. We believe PS5 level performance is required to achieve a great experience on big screens. And in this way, we have provided a unique offering for players and creators in this current console generation. However, publishers' strategies are increasingly shifting towards being multi-platform, so more platforms can run the same game, which is great from a creator's perspective. Among those platforms, our mission is that we will continue to be the best place to play and publish. As such, we have empowered our creators to leverage our offering and services to create amazing, unique experiences for players with high engagement and great monetization opportunities. We have done this consistently as the industry and competitive dynamics have evolved. Of course, PlayStation Studios and our franchises have a special role in showcasing the PlayStation experience and then strengthening the players' relationship with us.

>>712521042
Some investors are also concerned that Nintendo's appeal to the younger generation could lead to market share declines for PlayStation if those younger users choose not to graduate to PlayStation as they age. What is Sony Interactive doing to increase its addressable market among younger users and its overall mix of users?

Nishino: "The PlayStation brand and offering has resonated with a wide range of players over three decades now, and a number of the users engaged on our platform continue to grow. By supporting such a large number of creators, we are able to provide the largest range of content available. Comparing to all demographics, geographics, and play styles, et cetera. We believe that by constantly investing in players' relationship with the brand and our relationship with creators, we will ensure we stay close to all players' hearts through that lifeline."

Hulst: "If I may add to that, on the first-party content side, we're also reaching to a greater range of audiences more directly, including younger players with our first-party lineup. In addition to our franchises with more, I would call that multi-generational fan bases such as Marvel's Spider-Man, we also have franchises that appeal to a range of different player segments. Horizon is a good example. It's been very popular with female players. ASTRO BOT from our lovely Team ASOBI in Tokyo has been a hit with children and adults alike. We also continue to drive engagement with the PlayStation ecosystem and brand by bringing our franchises to new formats, film, television, and anime. Anime in particular is appealing to key younger audiences, so that's going to be very helpful for us."

who?

So who was the genius for Sony turn to live service games? I didn't liked their cinematic shit but atleast they sold well

>>712521906
Hermen Hulst

>>712520776
I mean, they're not wrong. Hilarious tho

>>712520440 (OP)
Where's that multiplatform announcement, ESL Xbox cuck?

>>712520529
>fairgame$
lmao

More like GAYstation

>>712520440 (OP)
>>712520479
>>712520529
How did Sony survive this far on nothing but pure slop?

>>712520849
Ghosts of Yotei is primed to be such a dumpster fire

>>712522630
Fortnite, Roblox, Call of Duty, gacha and sports games.

>>712521042
>Anime in particular is appealing to key younger audiences, so that's going to be very helpful for us.
You killed your own Japanese studio and kept pushing for shit like Horizon, you HACK.

>>712520528
nintendo said themselves they did not consider xbox nor ps to be competition as they wanted to be the second box

>>712522758
They'll just hire Adi Sharkar to make these animes

>>712520440 (OP)
>leading position in a stagnant, dying market
Congrats retards, now keep releasing your "exclusives" on PC.

>>712522630
Xbox committed sudoku while Nintendo left the home console market.

>>712523250
>Nintendo left the home console market
Sony fanboy cope

>>712520582
Destiny is two games. that's a lot of fucking expansion packs and ports but then for GoW let's just forget about Ascension, Ghost of Sparta and Chains of Olympus.

>>712523387
How is it snoy cope to imply that sony is only getting by because nintendo isn't direct competition anymore.

>>712520849
Tsushima was the best Ubishit game i've played but Yotei has everything working against it

>>712520776
>Marathon
Massive flop
>Helldivers
Big success, BUT they don't own Arrowhead and after that success Arrowhead have no reason to affiliate with Sony on any future projects. Sony will have to get one of their dogshit internal studios to make HD3 and it will flop.
>Astrobot
Critical success, financially irrelevant

>>712520529
Wait is The Show coming to PC?

>>712520440 (OP)
>124MAU
isnt this kind of worrying for Sony?
PS5's userbase isnt growing enough and most people are still on PS4 (or like me, they never upgraded and went to PC/Xbox/Switch)
fucking COD BO7 is coming to PS4, a last gen console still recieving major AAA games 12 years after its launch is unheard of

>>712522630
soillenials LOVE watching movie games that are more cutscene than gameplay

>>712523578
Nintendo is the market leader.

>>712523904
when is GTA VI coming to Switch?

i dont understand the console war shit
i get that if you're 12 years old and don't have any money you just gotta cope only having whatever your parents buy you but if you're an adult and doing this shit that's totally fucking insane

>>712523752
Latest entry just says multiplat, no PC.

>>712523765
Their lifeblood is their paid online, as long as they got sheep paying for that they'll do okay

>>712523765
The huge absurd dominance and success of the PS4 with barely any effort from Sony made sure that a ton of incompetent retards (like Hulst) were promoted, and they got even lazier than they were before. I don't even think the current Playstation executive team is capable of tackling the actual issues facing the brand

>>712524034
None of this has anything to do with console wars. This is direct marketing from Sony and shareholder talk stuff

>>712524034
turdworlders unironically believe company is their friend, corporation is their tribe, and brand is their god

>>712523904
>>712523904
Stop pretending to be retarded

>>712524059
Ah well. I'm more of a manager guy than a "play as the player" type of guy anyway

>>712520776
>>712520849
I know this is just them bullshitting to investors and shareholders, but the amount of lying through their teeth they're doing for Marathon and Ghost of Yotei both is astounding.

Everyone who is paying attention can see Marathon is going to flop right out of the gate. It doesn't matter how much money they throw at it it's already sullied its reputation and people had a lukewarm reception to it from the start of its announcement. The closed alpha (Beta?) barely had any interest even though they started handing out keys later into it, and the numbers it had even with interest were very low with the people who were playing it wasn't fun to play.

As soon as Ghost of Yotei showed off it was a female MC they screwed the pooch. Everyone was expecting Jin and it's done nothing but cause contention and bad press surrounding the title. I assume she's going to be similar to Yuna as a character based on the footage we've been shown and if she is she won't be able to hold the MC position as a character for more than an hour or two before losing all interest even for people who wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt.

>>712524204
It's just the truth. No idea why you're upset.

>>712524256
It was always obvious that after stumbling into a success with Tsushima, PS would immediately fumble it by injecting the usual stuff into the sequel

That's because currently the ninth generation is:
1) PS5
2) Xbox Series
3) Switch 2
And obviously PS5 leads here

>>712524339
Or keep going I guess

>>712524472
You said Nintendo left the home console market. In reality they've been winning since Switch came out.

Can you fags stop pointing all this out, it's clear that Sony is trying to scam their investors.

>>712520440 (OP)
they're being smoked by microsoft in software and by nintendo in hardware. in no way are they leading in anything.

>>712522362
They've been multiplatform for almost 5 years, nigga
>>712522630
Because the cucks in charge of Xbox went full retard instead of trying to compete

>>712524621
The only thing investors cares about is if Sony believes if they can continue to milk sheep for all their worth to be fair and despite Sony increasing prices everywhere there haven't been any signs of people leaving mass exodus. It could a scenario where players have decided they'll leave Playstation for other platforms but that will only become clear when PS6 is here.

>>712524440
Switch 2 is 10th gen.

>>712524904
>10th gen with the hardware from 7th gen
KEK

>>712524904
Wrong, Switch 1 is 8th, Switch 2 is 9th

>>712522630
They got a cut from 3rd party games like EA sports and CoD. Both of those are no longer going to carry Sony as much anymore since EA lost FIFA and CoD money is going to MS. 3rd party games subsidized their 1st party, and now they're trying to set up 1st party live service to keep them alive but they keep failing.

>>712525078
Nah he's right, Switch was 9th gen, Switch 2 is 10th.

>>712525078
You're clueless Switch is 9th gen and Switch 2 is 10th

>>712520440 (OP)
31 > 8 broke you?

>>712520479
>background to the sides is literally just the same games again but you show the cover
>on the left side you straight up have a dude holding a pis5 controller instead of showing a game
(lol

>>712525039
Generations aren't about power. If they released Switch 3 next year it would be 11th gen.

>>712525039
>7th gen hardware
Is that the reason why it's the only console with games available on it? Then I hope that never changes.

>>712524614
>You said Nintendo left the home console market.
Which they did, they don't compete with Sony or Microsoft as the AAA slop machine. Normies who just want to play the latest multiplat shooting or sports game aren't going to buy the switch for that. The switch is a nintendo handheld and is supplementary to a PC, xbox or playstation, just like how smartphones don't really compete with consoles even though they are at this point probably the #1 gaming platform.

>>712525114
Yep this. First party never mattered to sony no matter how much snoys and "ex"snoys try to worship their low quality furry shovelware from le good ol days.
That's why I think going for their own live services to become selfsustainable was not wrong but they did go at it in the worst way possible. Should have funded a bunch of small passion projects and then see what sticks and THEN invest into growing it. Like Xbox did for stuff like Grounded or Sea of Thieves. hell they even gave Bleeding Edge a fair chance but there was no demand.

>>712525565
tendies will say anything to make nintendo look good, as them about the shitty hardware they're paying for and they'll tell you it's fine because it's just a handheld and not a real console

>>712525565
It's just Sony fanboy cope, anon.

>>712520582
>TLOU1 listed three times on 'growing IP onto franchises'

It's not a franchise people only like 1 game/story from it.

>>712525894
Druckmann 100% wants to make TLOU 3. Uncharted 5 will most likely be the daughter. They've shown some market or ad thing that showed a very cleary Uncharted game with a female character at some point a few years back. It might be a PS6 game though

>>712525642
It's kinda strange how handheld has apparently become a dirty word even though they were always Nintendos most iconic and successful products.

>>712524069
>with barely any effort from Sony
This is sch a blatant lie that people like to repeat like a gospel. Sony threw around so much money in 8th gen to make everything exclusive to varying degrees and times. They paid to remove whole genres and communities from the competition while investing zero back into themself. All this shit was easy foreseeable since the wiiu times but sonyfans were too high on "winning" whatever the fuck.

>>712522630
The strongest brand loyalty in the industry built at the right place, at the right time.

>>712524614
>those deck numbers
Worse than vita, worse than wiiu, worse than the ngage perhaps. But by how loud steamies yell about the thing online you'd think it's a +100m seller.

>>712526245
>The strongest brand loyalty in the industry built at the right place, at the right time*
*immediately ruined by whoring everything out to PC

>"home console"
Does not exist. Most people play their handhelds at home on the shitter and on the sofa.
A more reality facing category would be TV-locked system and standalone system.

>>712526056
It's not but it's a hybrid. Switch was so successful because it did both without any problems and it got physical games.

>>712526056
Handheld implies inferiority, a shittier facsimile of the home console experience. That's why Switch is marketed as a hybrid despite being a glorified handheld with an easy to use dock for TV.

>>712526634
Switch 2 doesn't feel like that, it's a night and day difference. In my opinion Nintendo always got that right, just enough power and when their consoles start feeling old they come out with the new generation. Switch 1 on a giant OLED did not look great, Switch 2 does.

>>712526726
>540p upscaled to 4k
>looks good on a giant OLED
not falling for that shit

>>712521906
They don't really sell well enough for the cost and 7+ year dev cycle. They're valuable as vanity projects that give people a reason to choose Playstation over Xbox, but all the real money is just in hosting third party live service games. 9 of the current top 10 selling games on PSN right now are live service. They'll make more money from a 30% cut of CoD than they do off a TLOU release, except they make it every single year while spending almost nothing and having no risk. That's just fine with their dominant position now, but they're thinking 10 years from now. Maybe a lot of the live service stuff grows on Nintendo because it's cheaper and the graphics didn't need to be any better, or maybe Microsoft's everything is an Xbox shit pays off. Sony's current success depends entirely on maintaining their dominance as the peddler of third party live service, and the odds are against them maintaining.

So they're desperate to have their own big live service, and they're probably not wrong to think they'll need one, but they've also fucked up the execution because they don't have the people or talent they need to make it happen and couldn't just write a check for 69 billion to make it happen like Microsoft could.

>>712520479
Is that destiny in the background? Is that still a popular franchise?

>>712527226
Splatoon 3 looks great on mine

>>712520440 (OP)
>>712520479
>move HQ to burgerstan
>flop
of course

>>712521089
>Asked if they're worried about Nintendo
>Say they have astro bot
So they do see it as their own bing bing wahoo

>>712520479
Yup. Seethe.

>>712526356
To be fair, they needed more sales for their first party titles. They knew PC players would pay. It's a sound strategy

>>712522884
Iwata said that, and he hasn't been relevant to the company for over a decade.

>>712520529
According to this, Marathon is still coming out this year? No delays? Then why no marketing?

>>712523904
Market leader in mascot shovelware, perhaps.

>>712520701
Twisted Metal has a TV series?

>>712527856
I'm sure the 10 people buying their games on PC are worth the millions of dollars they'll lose in their ecosystem in the long run. They should thank god every night that Xbox is managed by even bigger retards.

>>712520440 (OP)
This shit is just to attract dumb investors, of course nobody buys it

>>712527984
Has it really hurt them at all? I know the joke that they have no games but people are still buying PS5 and spending on their system, more now than ever.

>>712525565
>Which they did, they don't compete with Sony or Microsoft as the AAA slop machine.
So Sony and MS left the home console market then.

>>712526487
Switch was successful because it was cheap and parents bough one for each child. Two when they broke them.

Still really continuing the disaster that is the live service initiative or do they just have to flush it out before they can redirect that money to someplace worthwhile.

>>712528145
Do people think 300 bucks is cheap? And the OLED are 350. Who got that kinda money to throw around

>>712528070
>Has it really hurt them at all?
I have no idea, I ditched the platform the second God Of War was announced on Steam/Epic and never looked back. But I hope so.
Again, they should be thankful that MS is even more retarded. If MS had the balls to make all future Bethesda and Activision games exclusive, PlayStation wouldn't last another decade.

>>712528070
>but people are still buying PS5 and spending on their system, more now than ever.
I mean, not really? Each year their profit margins fall.

>>712520440 (OP)
Establishing the leading position by porting everything to PC went to well with Xbox so I'm sure Sony will be able to pull it off as well!

>>712528070
>the joke
it's not a joke, it used to be, but now it's very much reality

>>712528217
People who have at least a minimum wage job and know how to spend properly?
It's not a lot of money. The only reason you'd think it is is if you're a burger flipper or bartender relying on tips.

>>712528184
They cancelled a bunch of live service games, but then I saw they're still making new ones so I'm not sure where they're going. Bungie still have a MOBA in development and bend studio is still working on a live service game

>>712527979
It's one of those "you blinked and missed it". Gran Turismo had a movie. And they're making a gravity rush movie

>>712528070
>Has it really hurt them at all?
remember when they used to dominate with actual exclusive games, the same way nintendo always has?
now look at the absolute meme they've become after they destroyed their brand.
financially, i don't know, but the playstation people used to love is dead and buried.

>>712528571
Crazy how we go from goldenface and NEVER EVER spam to the ABSOLUTE state of play in such a short time. Fuck Shawn Layden, fuck Jim Ryan, fuck Hermen Hulst and fuck anyone who goes by their policy. Bring back Andrew "PC is our main competitor" House.

>>712528571
>the same way nintendo always has?
Nintendo dominates with first party games though. Sony on the other hand was almost completely reliant on third party developers while their first party output was shovelware like jumping flash, at least I think that was first party, anyway it was a strategy doomed to fail.

>>712520849
I really liked GoT but not really interested in the sequel. Sony games always have all the rough edges sanded down to attract the most potential customers, and it makes their games feel way too safe.

>>712528070
That has more to do with Xbox committing suicide than anything Sony did. It's like arriving second in a race because the third guy shot himself.

>>712520529
Jesus Christ, the state of consoles is dire.

>>712520582
>Marathon
>"New IP"
>"Developing IP... with the potential to grow into enduring franchises"
>Literally the oldest IP in the entire image
?????

>>712529112
Let's be honest, the new marathon has nothing to do with old Bungie marathon. But saying that it has the potential to grow is a stretch

>>712520582
>>712520529
>>712520479
>>712520440 (OP)
LMAO

>>712522630
Normalfags who can't into PC.

>>712522630
Everyone got it for GTA6... so will I, sadly.

>>712532585
grim

>>712520529
Why didn't Concord come out?

>>712532954
it came and went ;)

>>712520776
>innovative new title
theres like 10 extraction shooter out there that plays just like marathon

>>712520529
only hd2 is worth a damn in this chart

They only want to strongly engage with your wallet.

>>712520529
>fairgames
>not the nigress, but a monkey mask
what did Snoy mean by this?

>>712520440 (OP)
>peripherals
Like the 150AUD controller that breaks in a month and you can't get refunds.
The 300AUD one with changeable joysticks ain't much better... it's half the price of the console.

Who do they think they are fooling?
People need to reject and burn down these corporations and the systems that encourage them. They are parasitic to human life. Death to them.