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Hermiöne Granger said:
The real test starts with the PS6, and how many will not buy it.
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The price alone is going to make that choice an involuntary one, a paywall dissuading a lot of normies from getting one. Then again there is always a subset of odious brand sycophant that will buy it precisely because it is going to be an expensive status symbol they can brag about to their peers. This is the type of clientele Sony is banking on, an entire future build only on whales. Everyone else too poor or financially conscious can go pound sand.
 
Metamorpho said:
As much as I want this to succeed, I feel like there are way too many retards out there with PS5s for this to work out.
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It's a pointless exercise because we already know physical buyers are in a minority (15% I think) so even if 100% of them did this for a week Sony would barely notice.

Hell, Marathon has lost 95% of its playerbase since launch and they haven't done shit to try and turn that disaster around. Reddit has done more to try and save Marathon than Sony or Bungie.
 
Belvedere said:
This is the type of clientele Sony is banking on, an entire future build only on whales. Everyone else too poor or financially conscious can go pound sand.
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As Markorian pointed out, Sony’s strategy going forward isn’t to increase the number of Playstation users or even preserve it, but to squeeze as much money as possible from a dwindling number of users. When they put out a $1500 machine with no disc drive only the very rich and very stupid will buy such a thing. Some have claimed it’ll be Sony’s Wii U but I think it’ll be Sony’s 3DO. An overpriced mess with little to no games to speak of.
 
Belvedere said:
The price alone is going to make that choice an involuntary one, a paywall dissuading a lot of normies from getting one. Then again there is always a subset of odious brand sycophant that will buy it precisely because it is going to be an expensive status symbol they can brag about to their peers. This is the type of clientele Sony is banking on, an entire future build only on whales. Everyone else too poor or financially conscious can go pound sand.
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EpicGamerMoment said:
As Markorian pointed out, Sony’s strategy going forward isn’t to increase the number of Playstation users or even preserve it, but to squeeze as much money as possible from a dwindling number of users. When they put out a $1500 machine with no disc drive only the very rich and very stupid will buy such a thing. Some have claimed it’ll be Sony’s Wii U but I think it’ll be Sony’s 3DO. An overpriced mess with little to no games to speak of.
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so the apple/iphone approach? the difference between apple and sony is that apple still tries to do shit even if they copy/paste + increase monitor size by half a inch with the excuse of their appstore and all.
sony has... i dunno?
 
Most Wanted Banana said:
The PlayStation Blackout starts today. We better not catch you with your consoles on!

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lol good luck with that. Gamer boycotts don't generally tend to work out too well. Low impulse control, etc.:
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Maybe Soynys can do better.
"Nope, couldn't say it with a straight face." -- Cave Johnson.
 
EpicGamerMoment said:
Some have claimed it’ll be Sony’s Wii U but I think it’ll be Sony’s 3DO. An overpriced mess with little to no games to speak of.
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I'd agree 3DO is the more appropriate comparison. How many original exclusives did the PS5 get this generation?
  • Astro Bot
  • Ghost of Yotei
  • Saros
  • Wolverine
  • God of War Laufey
That number could conceivably get bigger now they're scrapping PC ports, but it's just as likely to get smaller as it's taking longer and longer to get games out the door. Naughty Dog haven't put out a single new game this generation and I still give even odds Bald Asian Lesbian Simulator ends up skipping straight to PS6.
StacticShock said:
so the apple/iphone approach?
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Ignoring the inexcusable shit like the $800 monitor stand and $50 chargers, Apple's hardware is at least very good and the UX is intuitive and responsive.

The only thing the PS6 could do to justify its existence is be a hybrid console, but that would mean further gimping the performance of an already gimped PC. Buying a PS6 will be like buying a gen 1 iPhone: it doesn't really do anything useful, you just want the status of owning it.
 
In India reporting on PlayStation killing the game disc will gets you on the blacklist :story:

PlayStation India is blacklisting media covering the news of it killing the game discs (archive)

Several India media outlets that reported on the death of physical media, have landed on PlayStation India’s blacklist. The reason for being on the blacklist, stating that it puts PlayStation India in “bad light”.

PlayStation India took it a step further than just blacklisting certain sections of the media. Some claim they’ve been blocked on WhatsApp by the firm’s PR agency on PlayStation’s instruction which in itself is ridiculous given that the country essentially runs on WhatsApp.

PlayStation India in particular is perhaps the most insecure publisher doing business in the country despite being a monopoly. God forbid someone does anything less than sing its praises.
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Oliver Onions said:
I'd agree 3DO is the more appropriate comparison. How many original exclusives did the PS5 get this generation?
  • Astro Bot
  • Ghost of Yotei
  • Saros
  • Wolverine
  • God of War Laufey
That number could conceivably get bigger now they're scrapping PC ports, but it's just as likely to get smaller as it's taking longer and longer to get games out the door. Naughty Dog haven't put out a single new game this generation and I still give even odds Bald Asian Lesbian Simulator ends up skipping straight to PS6.

Ignoring the inexcusable shit like the $800 monitor stand and $50 chargers, Apple's hardware is at least very good and the UX is intuitive and responsive.

The only thing the PS6 could do to justify its existence is be a hybrid console, but that would mean further gimping the performance of an already gimped PC. Buying a PS6 will be like buying a gen 1 iPhone: it doesn't really do anything useful, you just want the status of owning it.
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There's no way Sony does any PS6 exclusives early on, bar maybe something from Asobo. The economics just don't line up for that anymore with their massive budgets.
 
Oliver Onions said:
Marathon has lost 95% of its playerbase since launch and they haven't done shit to try and turn that disaster around.
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There is no "turning around" AAA projects anymore. The budgets, the size of the development teams, the layers of management and bureaucracy are so massive that there is no practical capacity to act quickly or be decisive about performing a course correction. It is the perfect Titanic analogy, by the time they see the iceberg it is already too late, the whole thing is carried towards disaster by sheer momentum. It is made much worse by these games being multiplayer-only, dependent on having a high and consistent player population. The moment the players feel the game it is not worth their time they'll banish and they are not coming back.

EpicGamerMoment said:
When they put out a $1500 machine with no disc drive only the very rich and very stupid will buy such a thing.
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I can already see the usual suspects chasing after repomen impounding PS6s for missed loan payments.

Hermiöne Granger said:
In India reporting on PlayStation killing the game disc will gets you on the blacklist :story:

PlayStation India is blacklisting media covering the news of it killing the game discs (archive)
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The most toxic combination of traits: the arrogance of a corporate multinational mixed with the superiority complex and izzat "save face" attitude of a culture where admitting any wrongdoing is the worst sort of dishonor.

"Saar, do the needful, buy the Poo-Es-Sikh. Discs are for filthy Dalit! Digital dungloads only you bloody benchod!! REEDEEEM THE CODE!!!"
 
Belvedere said:
It is the perfect Titanic analogy, by the time they see the iceberg it is already too late, the whole thing is carried towards disaster by sheer momentum. It is made much worse by these games being multiplayer-only, dependent on having a high and consistent player population.
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I agree with all of this, which is why I'm mystified that Sony killed Concord so quickly but are leaving Marathon to die of death by a thousand cuts.

Marathon hasn't failed as hard as Concord (nothing likely will ever again) but it's definitely not met its targets and I doubt it's broke even never mind made any profit.
 
⏰I was recently watching Daredevil and realized Laufey's actress is actually in it. Fucking brutal what they did to her because I think Deborah Ann Woll is actually quite attractive. How are these actresses okay with these horrible face scans? You'd think that directly harms their brand,

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Kharash said:
⏰I was recently watching Daredevil and realized Laufey's actress is actually in it. Fucking brutal what they did to her because I think Deborah Ann Woll is actually quite attractive. How are these actresses okay with these horrible face scans? You'd think that directly harms their brand,

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I assume that they don't want to be branded "difficult".
 
Oliver Onions said:
which is why I'm mystified that Sony killed Concord so quickly
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They killed it because they had no choice, there was no player population to keep it alive, the numbers were unsustainable. This is a image that is burned into my memory from that time: Just one week after launch there were only 70 people playing the game on Steam. Remember this was a 5v5 game, after one week of being out their massive $400 million "blockbuster" was hosting 7 active matches for the entirety of the PC platform, I can only imagine the PS5 player numbers being even worse. Concord wasn't just a failed project, it was a humiliating defeat.

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Marathon isn't dead yet because the bleed is slower and there are Bungie die-hards that don't want to let go, but Sony is delaying the inevitable just to save face. Meanwhile Destiny 2 has a far higher player population despite Sony deciding to kill support for it.

It is greedy, clueless, stubborn, out-of-touch corpos that have absolutely no idea nor regard for what their costumers want, while having contracts that insulate them from the consequences of their bad decisions. That's modern Sony and AAA Western development in a nutshell.
 
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