When are you expecting PS6 to launch?
I'm sure it's still more than 2 years away if not 4 years. PS might choose to make PS hardware in the US by that point. This is what happened in Brazil under the same economic pressures a decade ago.
In the US we can blame the tariffs for you... you can blame your government for screwing up your currency driving up.the prices of game consoles even if not by as much as in the US.
What is Xbox's excuse? What was Nintendo's excuse? Both increased prices all over the planet for consoles even last gen consoles and their accessories plus services.
PS only increased prices on PS5 consoles in the EU and rest of the world while also reducing costs for accessorie...
The prices increased to their 2022 prices.
THE WORLD IS OVER!!!
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Any price increases, especially this late in the generation suck, but this isn't the greed every other company has been demonstrating. If or when PS moves production out of China tariff pricing goes away.
Google translation of the offending segment of the Japanese Sony Q1 25 webstream, "As I mentioned in my speech today, for example, in the games business, we are moving away from a hardware-centric business model and towards a platform business that fosters community growth and increases engagement, thus improving the stability of our revenue."
This is a means to expand. PS is not exiting console manufacturing because that would crush the ecosystem they've built and coun...
So, I have the choice to be ripped off by AMD, Intel, and Nvidia as well as the publishers on PC all the same!? What a great option, and let's not forget the longer boot times the bugs glitches and OS updates that can and have locked people - including me - out of software we paid for and own (even on disc in my case regarding Crysis: Maximum Edition!).
🤣 PC is truly the most masterful rat race.
@Terry_B
Uh, Sony and other electronics firms are still mastering BD discs for movies games and other media, just not re/writables for us consumers. The announcement of the discontinuation of re/writable BDs effective February 2025 was misinterpreted as a full stop on all BD disc manufacturing by Sony Corp.
Too bad the literal Japanese translation is a bit different.
「今日のスピーチで述べたように、例えばゲームビジネスでは、 ハードウェア中心のビジネスモデルから脱却し、コミュニティを成 長 させ、エンゲージメントを高めるプラットフォームビジネスに移行 し ています。 このように、収益の安定性が向上しています。」
Effectively, 'We mentioned in our speech today, in the game business, for example, we’re moving away from a hardware-centric business model and toward a platform businesss that grows the community and boosts engagement. In this way, we’re seeing increased stability for...
The lie spread around the world. It's very unfortunate.
Well this fud was debunked within a day (live interpretive translation vs direct translation). But don't let it stop you from pushing the narrative that PS will abandon hardware and fo full 3rd party publishing. Everyone here knows some users will.
I don't mind PS making LS games. It obviously just can't replace what I play games for. The sad fact is that you know as well as I do that we are in the minority. If PS goes full always online LS (FAOLS? Maybe FOLS? I don't know), then I'll stop gaming. Nintendo lost me decades ago and I still fleeced myself by getting a 3DS and then a N3DSXL, but since then I've cut myself off from their crap. Xbox lost me as soon as they got me with ads on the 360's dashdoard. PC los...
@Lightning77
That doesn't mean it isn't also live service, especially since each game is updated throughout the year these days. Additionally, there are season passes and microtransactions and while an online connection isn't required to play a decent chunk of the features many players want are tied to being online.
It's the best of all the worst gamers complain about today.
What live service games did PS release this quarter? What games did PS release this quarter? Does Death Stranding 2 even count?
The reality is that live service games weren't released this year. Yet that tiny number of 1st party live service games alone made up 40% of PS' revenue -last quarter- [Q1 2025, not last quarter].
Let that sink in.
Nintendo is already chasing live service.
If you think PS will release every game on other platforms, especially day and date. That hasn't happened until recently and only with live service games for obvious reasons. To generate more revenue.
PS still understands that they can't release games like Ghost of Yotei on PC or any other platform day and date as that dilutes the brand. It's also possible that GoY will not be released on PC officially at any po...
The lie already spread the world over several times. It's the first I'm hearing about of any of this.
It's remarkable that anyone would believe that PS is going 3rd party totally abandoning HW, but there are a lot of dense melons out there.
How do you do that without payment processors? Oh, right, you can't. Even Steam gift cards are processed by FastCard which is owned by InComm. Who is InComm's payment processor? I have no idea, but if they can be pursuaded by an activist group then this option isn't going to help.
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"However, it seems that these price hikes are driven by economics, especially given the uncertainty of the tariffs that President Trump applied the U.S.’s trading partners. We can't directly blame tariffs for the increasing costs of these consoles, though, as Canada was also affected by these price increases." - 307d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment
The people of Madagascar are called Malagasy and they look like a mix of Asian and African with stereotypical phenotypes in that order.
The Malagasy people actually kind of look very Asian because they're ancestors are from Africa and Asia. But the admixture is slightly more Asian than African, which makes more sense given how many of these people appear Asian and how prominent the Asian facial features are. Skin color, shape of the palpebral fissure, and hair texture vary across the island, but generally the character as depicted in the game looks like a person from Madagascar. I'm not saying the other depiction look...
Apparently, Malagasy people have yet to chime in. When looking into what the people of Madagascar look like I stumbled on a French language blog from within the nation which published the article about this very character.
https://www.cocolodgemajung...
No comments as of my first reading it.
As it would happen Malagasy people look kind of Asian, because they're ancestry traces back to Borneo, which is in Asia.
@kindi_boy & Deathdeliverer
Xbox is greedy adjusting prices well before tariffs and higher than necessary given PS' more limited financial resources.
Orange man only is responsible for the US pricing of PS5. So, why did Nintendo **AND** Xbox adjust pricing so much higher than PS **GLOBALLY**?
What an excellent question that neither of you will be be capable of answering.