They offered what gamers wanted, not tried to make us like what they want to offer.

Games, its always about games, always has been, always will be.

The answer: a vision for the future of entertainment that goes beyond games for little children but also for the growing gamer that can only be achieved by creating a platform for all the game developers and publisbers around the world to express their vision of what games should continually evolve to be.

Sony focuses on delivering high quality games above all else.

Their focus is generally on entertainment, attempting to give you your money's worth for initial purchases, rather establishing a revenue stream. They aren't about making games a service or exploiting the mechanics, the community, of their consumer base.

It has exclusives that don't launch in beta form, and doesn't f with their fan base

Easy , by offering sauce, raw sauce, no ketchup, just sauce. By sauce i mean quality games. The exclusives go skkkrrrrrraa

No 1 company is perfect but think about this. Ps1 105 mill ps2 157 mill ps3 90 mill ps4 80 mill and climbing. What other companies consoles can say they have had this much success. Long live PlayStation

Outside of the so called bad launch of the ps3 as far as price point (which the price was justified), what has Sony really done wrong? Since 95-96, that's 20 plus years, Sony has truly committed to satisfying the needs of gamers and helping gaming progress beyond what was seen as a childish source of entertainment. Sony has earned brand trust for the PlayStation branch. The consumers trust and value the name, because the consumers feel valued. Yes Sony is it to make money, we get that, but they have shown that they care as well.

First one have to look at Sony for what they are as a whole, a multinational conglomerate corporation that specializes in four operating components: electronics (AV, IT & communication products, semiconductors, video games, network services and medical business), motion pictures (movies and TV shows), music (record labels and music publishing) and financial services (banking and insurance)

Now think about it, why wouldn't Sony want to incorporate these core qualities in their 1st party games, Especially when it envolves, MUSIC, MOTION PICTURES.

Epic cinematography seen in Games like, new GOD of WAR, The Last of Us, The Last Guardian, Uncharted series, Shadow of the Colossus, Horizon Zero Dawn, etc, etc...

Because exclusives matter.

By simply making great games

Easy answer, games games and games, i said it before i'll say it again PS and Sony were the best thing to happen to the gaming industry.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau