Thread 718661772

why did the ps5 flop so hard?

>>718661772 (OP)
First generation where the price went up over time as opposed to down. We should have a $300 PS5 super slim by now.

>>718661772 (OP)
Because: PC, smartphones, swith 1 and people who cared about vidya in the 90s and 2000s are 46 years old now.

>>718661772 (OP)
No games. Simple, when people buy consoles they expect real exclusives or even fucking better first party content that is exclusive. If you can buy a PC and just play these already in a legal form why would you ever buy a PS5.

>>718661772 (OP)
The Switch statistic here is so fucking fraudulent. It's like counting the DS and the WII as one.
Nintendo literally killed off one major console line in that generation and yet it barely sold as much as the DS. That is no success.

>>718661772 (OP)
No games

>>718662362

So, do you think the Vita TV should be counted separately from the Vita handheld?
...Oh wait, it didn't even chart, haha

>>718661772 (OP)
75 million more units than the Shitch Poo has sold, tendie.

>>718661772 (OP)
spend like 400 dollareedoo's to download 20 games

>>718661772 (OP)
>release console with faulty hardware which bricks itself a few months out of the warranty period
>expects me to ever purchase one of their shitboxes ever again

>>718661772 (OP)
The rise of PC gaming.

Graphics are reaching a breaking point where the returns are becoming less noticeable. PS5's bigger selling point was its faster loading, something that's a lot harder to sell.

>>718664037
*fall, only third worlders care about PC gayming.

>>718664271
>*fall, only third worlders care about PC gayming.
Absolutely not, look at the GPU prices and tell me these are affordable for third worlders?

>>718664145
Tldr, Nintendo was right with the Wii.

How is eleventh after 5 years a flop?

>>718661772 (OP)
>160M+
*150M

>>718664507
It's not at all but bots can only respond to the question in the OP not the context of the image.

>>718661772 (OP)
No games

>>718662362
>yet it barely sold as much as the DS
Made more money than Wii and DS combined

>>718661772 (OP)
>160M+
lol snoys are so desperate to have any lasting legacy

>>718665406
And tendies are desperate to surpass it.

>>718661772 (OP)
xbox s where

>>718665598
Which company has revised its sales several times over the years in order to maintain the number one spot?

>>718662248
Thats the problem though. A PC to run like a PS5 would be around 1200-1500 just to match the performance specs. Even more for a pro. Consoles are done with exclusives. Nintendo toddler games dont count because children these days play roblox and minecraft. Nobody plays mario anymore.

>>718665687
>generation
*includes PS4 sales, accessory sales like the PS Portal, DLC, MTX, PS+ subscriptions (all the shit that cattle loves buying)

>>718665687
>profit
>makes 1000 gajilionibiliooinln dollars
>costs 1001 gajilionibiliooinln dollars to make
>profit
enjoy your multiplats bro!

>>718665337
Nintendo and PC cant play GTA 6. No games.

>>718665687
PS could never

>>718665834
>noooo that money doesn't count!!!

>>718665939
when we're talking about the PS5, no, it doesn't ;)

>>718665880
>going down each year
OH NO NO NO NO

>>718661772 (OP)
PS6 is gonna be a huge flop

>>718665980
So youre just contrarian that hates popular things, all you had to say

>>718661772 (OP)
Microsoft has given up

>>718661772 (OP)
>160M+
Man... The jokes tell themselvesm

>>718666080
The PS5 is so profitable Sony decided to go third party!
No, they saw the writing on the wall and that it's more profitable to nickel and dime their cult-like fanbase with MTX shit and entierely skip the hardware part (which they've been selling at a loss).

>>718666024
All consoles do this Anon. PS5 is already declining even faster than PS4.

>>718665348
Profit doesn't come solely from console sales, this just means nu-ntendo is better at milking their audience. DS didn't needed stuff like online subscriptions, DLCs, selling plastic toys and cardboard, etc.

>>718666206
>they aren't profitable cause they ported some old games
>profitable means exclusivity only
Wow compelling argument

>>718666387
profitable means not being a flop that costs money every time you "sell" one.

>>718661772 (OP)
Where did these numbers even came from? The only oficial number in this list is the PS2 one and Sony pulled it out of their asses.

>>718666387
https://www.macroaxis.com/invest/ratio/SONY/Probability-Of-Bankruptcy
https://www.macroaxis.com/invest/ratio/NTDOY/Probability-Of-Bankruptcy
https://www.macroaxis.com/invest/ratio/MSFT/Probability-Of-Bankruptcy

>>718665406
The rest of the image is probably from VGchartz.

>>718666446
No profitable means profits and heres the profits>>718665687
Youre just a contrarian

>>718666584
2 more weeks

>>718666770
That's not just the PS5, though.
Nice debt, by the way.

>>718666584
tl;dr?
can't bother right now

>>718666872
Damn America is bad cause it has debt :(

>>718667070
>uhmmm a company having tremendous debt is good, actually!
every single time

>>718666858
you do know SCE has gone bankrupt twice in the PS3 era, right? it's why they changed their name to SIE.

>>718667125
>uhhh its bad actually and this personally affects me by uhhhhhh THEYLL BE BANKRUPT IN 2 WEEKS OK!?!?! NOOO IM NOT JUST A CONTRARIAN THAT HAS TO BE AN OUTSIDER!!!!!

>>718667250
damn bro i cant believe they went bankrupt 20 years ago, i was hoping they make PS4 but they went out of business

>>718667280
wow buddy be careful you sound like you're overdosing on that extra strength copium
calm down, sony isn't your friend you know :)

>>718667358
They became creatively bankrupt. And it shows 10 years after with the PS5.

>>718667373
>says others are on copium when hes coping with the fact its successful and not a flop
lol

>>718661772 (OP)
This needs to be updated, they found a 15 million units shipment of PS2s in the Rub' al Khali at the lost city of Irem.

>>718667913
Tendies always project.

>>718668302
Switch 2 – 179.641 (1.856.764)
Switch – 37.346 (35.906.946)
PlayStation 5 – 17.531 (6.980.641)
Xbox Series X|S – 652 (681.439)
PlayStation 4 – 32 (9.504.998)

Snoy don't look!!!

>>718667913
Still getting mogged by Nintendo. I'm sure PS is enjoying their "success" as they go through mass layoffs and studio closures, being forced to "adapt" away from their traditional console system that helped them thrive for 2 decades, doing worse than their predecessor in hardware sales that are steadily declining, and losing billions of dollars through acquiring a useless studio that convinced them to throw away money gambling on making multiple live service slop trying to futilely surpass replace fortnite.

>>718668418
lmao goalpost moving
>NO ITS NOT SUCCESSFUL UHHH OK IT IS BUT WHATABOUT MY CONSOLE WAR FAGGOTRY

>>718668558
I wasn't that Anon. But calling them successful as their ship is clearly getting riddled with holes is pure cope.

>>718668418
You guys really want a single console monopoly, huh?

>>718669424
Nah, I just enjoy dunking on Snoys because their copium is overflowing. Nintendo is shitty on their own but they are kept more in line because they've been BTFO by mobiles before and they'll also get overtaken by PC if they don't dial back their shittiness.

>>718668876
yeah theyll be out of business any day now

>>718669721
When your cope becomes interchangeable with an Xbot's.

>all snoy doomposting
>still reaches 80 million in 5 years
NOTHING
EVER
HAPPENS
TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>718669853
Said guy coping PS5 is successful

>>718670060
>worse than its predecessor when gaming was much smaller.

It's over.

>>718670242
>when gaming was much smaller.
you wildin, also the predecessor as a 7 year advantage

>>718670206
What? My points on PS's ship sinking would apply to Xbox too which I acknowledge is sinking even worse so that makes no sense. You're the one in denial about it and using a point that would apply to Xbox to delusionally deny it. Unless you're saying the Xbox Series is successful too. In which case you'd be the contrarian.

>>718670418
https://explodingtopics.com/blog/number-of-gamers
https://globaledge.msu.edu/blog/post/57295/the-gaming-industry-sees-a-staggering-surge-in-popularity

https://kotaku.com/ps5-ps4-sales-helldivers-2-sony-earnings-concord-1851475595

PlayStation 5 Sales Fall Short Of PS4, Even As Helldivers 2 Breaks Records
Sony predicts a quieter year, but online FPS Concord is still coming soon

(LMAO)

Sony sold over 20 million PlayStation 5s in its last fiscal year, an impressive number that nevertheless failed to hit its original goal of 25 million, and even missed its revised target of 21 million consoles sold. The latest numbers make it clear that the next-gen hardware will probably never catch up to the sales of the PS4, even as Helldivers 2 crushes all expectations after becoming the fastest-selling Sony-published game in the company’s history.

I'm obviously talking about launch-aligned, dumbass.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/05/14/sony-says-ps5-sales-have-peaked-after-29-decline/

>>718670060
>Pretending that's impressive
It's literally their worst selling home console

>>718670060
Meanwhile you guys cope about how the system that's the literal biggest gaming launch in history will flop.

I know its just pointless dick measuring but it seems odd nintendo didn't care when Sony casually remembered it sold 10 million more PS2s when the switch was coming close to beating the alltime record

>Expensive
>No games
>The few games it has are all either PS4 games or also on PC
No reason to own this thing, at least Microsoft realized their console has no reason to exist when it's only a gamepass machine and are ditching dedicated hardware altogether

>>718670548
>PS's ship sinking
Still coping

>>718670964
It's not, stop lying on the internet.

>>718671110
>>Expensive
Said the PC fat lmao

>>718661772 (OP)
You're genuinely retarded if you buy a console these days, barring the Nintendo shit since they have a handful of exclusives you can't get anywhere else, are portable, and relatively cheap compared to their contemporaries.
I wish Nintendo would just release their games on PC so we can be done with the console era.

>>718671081
If Nintendo was worried about this race they would've done like Sony with the PS2 and keep the DS in production for a little longer, even with Sony's made up PS2 numbers the DS could surpass it again

>>718670898
>>718670964
>>718670242
>>718670418
2
MMOREEEEEEEEE
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKS

See you all next generation

>>718671216
In this age where consoles are just locked down PCs then the closer they creep to actual PC prices the more pointless they are.

>>718671316
Yeah I can't wait for the $1000 PS6 with even less games

Hey I just found more 10 million unaccounted for PS2 units in my attic, better update those sales numbers!

>>718671145
Yeah, you're coping.

>>718671263
>I wish nintendo would give less of a reason for people to buy their consoles

No thanks.

>>718661772 (OP)
Literally the only reason to buy a console over a PC is the pricepoint and the PS5 is more expensive than its worth

>>718671341
>creep to actual PC prices
Its not $2000 lmao

>>718671583
>no u!
Damn bro compelling, i see now that sony is bankrupt and out of business

>>718671980
Projection and delusional denial as typical of snoys.

>>718671980
>y-you're coping! y-you're the one going no u!

Damn bro compelling, i now see that sony hasn't been doing mass layoffs and studio closures left and right as well as releasing the biggest flops in gaming history while their hardware sales continuously declines at a faster rate

>>718672349
Damn bro i guess every company is going bankrupt cause everyone has layoffs, Microsoft bankrupt in 2 weeks!?!?!?

>>718665817
Just $900, i have one (Windows 10 update was free)

i like seeing sony magically pull out million more sales for the ps2 every other year the switch kept getting closer to taking the number one spot

>>718661772 (OP)
I have trouble believing that 80M people own a PS5. The best selling PS5 game (Forza Horizon 5) has only sold 3 million copies on the PS5.

>>718672646
Peak retard

>>718672432
Microsoft is going through severe financial issues in multiple sectors which are currently not being successful, yes. I don't know why you keep harping on bankruptcy. I'm not talking about bankruptcy.

>>718672727
Imagine if the top selling Xbox 360 game had only sold 3 million copies on the Xbox 360 and the best you could hope for on the console was mediocre sales.

You're retarded if you don't have your doubts.

>>718672529
Same, it always makes tendies shit their pants with rage.

>>718672938
Source for that being the best selling PS5 game to date?

>>718673075
https://www.eurogamer.net/former-xbox-console-exclusive-forza-horizon-5-is-ps5s-highest-selling-game-of-the-year-so-far-says-analyst
https://alineaanalytics.substack.com/p/forza-horizon-5-is-now-2025s-top

>>718673381
Yeah, if you read it, it says of the year. There are higher selling games over its lifespan. Next.

Replace 3 with 5

>>718673381
How illiterate is this board

>>718661772 (OP)
People don’t have any fucking money. Why don’t companies realize this?