You apparently haven't done much studying there have you kiddo? I don't think you've learned yet how many battles were won in Japan with guns, cannons and arrows. Whole armies were felled by the front line gunners because the enemy ran up with swords. The only people in Japan who are seriously that stuck with the swordplay mentality are the 30 to 50 somethings. Their old and their opinions show it. Japanese gamers don't buy shooters because that isn't whats marketed to them. You can only buy what is available to be purchased.

good question....and yes, I think shooters are that good. I've pretty much played MW2 (somehow having fun....kind of unexplainable actually) and Halo 3 for the past 3 months with some SC2 sprinkled in between. I'll probably play Reach for the next 3 months

There are a lot of FPS's in both consoles. By simply trying to lable one consoles a shooter console. When shooters sell more on both consoles more than any other game is just BS. I asked a question in a comment a couple post down. Name any game ( RPG,racing,RTS,adventure,actio n,ect) that sell more than a FPS on the Ps3

Hence the person saying they're glad they only own a PS3. I would just assume they're not interested in the 360. /Facepalm....His and your word's...not mine.

But he's not interested, he's yawning and facepalming. insulting and dismissive kind of like what you're doing here. /facepalm

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

Contractual agreements are not the same as “gentlemen” agreements. If you think that they work with their distributors a month before production then their entire business model is trash. They work with companies like nvidia constantly for building the graphics cards they need. They work with companies that build motherboards years in advance. This is what proper business planning does.

They are not buying components on a whim like a consumer. So again, considering the ram isn’t a singular module and is integrated into the motherboard I highly doubt they wouldn’t have a final schematic that they are supposed to be building around.

If they are delaying production another 3 years then it’s obvious again this is an after though project and is just trying to be responsive to their bad execution they had the last 14 years.

It also isn’t far fetched to use their failure to produce first party titles the last 7 years including the highly anticipated games I mentioned all being cancelled. That they would continue to you know… lie

Yeah with FSR 5 they should be able to offer a much cheaper version of Helix.

Series S is what has killed Xbox Series so... Will they dare?

The factors are largely external. Covid and Russia-Ukraine war causing inflation led to the first price increase in 2022.

Then we get Trump's tariffs increasing hardware prices, AI boom causing a RAM crisis, war on Iran causing a worldwide fuel crisis which impacts the cost of everything.

Gaming doesn't exist in a vacuum. The last few years have been a shitshow and lot of it was definitely avoidable.

LucasRuinedChildhood,

For sure. No disagreement on the external factors doing a lot of this. Where I have to gently push back however is on two fronts:

1. The pandemic definitely caused some issues: asynchronous development was a big issue and really complicated timelines and affected game quality. At the same time, when it comes to price hikes, it's really difficult to know what was genuine necessity and what was taking consumers for a ride. The pandemic brought about "stag-flation" which was increasing prices and stagnant wages, which was a problem caused by supply chain constraints. There was also "Greed-flation", where companies that were slightly affected or had no issues took advantage of the situation and squeezed everyone citing supply chain issues when there were none.

2. It's definitely true that the tariffs, AI boom, and RAM crisis were all things enabled by tech broligarchs throwing money at this caricature of a world leader, one of them being Satya Nadella. I don't think Sony and Nintendo have contributed much to this problem if at all, but Microsoft's Nadella I feel was instrumental in causing every one of those issues. Microsoft as a company contributed to both candidates (though they gave Harris 4x as much if I recall), but Nadella was all in on letting AI run wild. He paid for unregulated AI, and got a war that's not a war (even though Trump called it that at least five times on television) that screwed up helium access. So for me, I feel that one of the players in the gaming industry is a key architect of these issues, and for that reason I struggle a bit to think of it as "external".