It's perfectly aligns with both Sony and MS financial outlook for this year (slightly down for Sony and constant double-digit decline for MS), you just need to read the fine print instead of fanboying in gaming forums.Quite the cope indeed
Sony just had an exclusive launch this Thursday and one the month before that too. This isn't really about exclusives at all but just the market seeing a YoY decline especially with shortages last year coming to an end.
Yep just had a chance to read the entire article and the framing of this thread doesn't match the source article headline at all and the source article doesn't have a quote from the AMD CFO just blaming consoles at all. The CFO blames "Gaming" being down a lot referring to both PC GPU sales and semicustom sales (consoles) being down as a whole. Arthands had to really try and push the console angle though.
#sonytoo
Pretty much my thoughts exactly. Plus the big AAA games are safe, same-y, woke, "Hollywood blockbuster" style cross-gen shit that takes way too long to develop.
The last time I was an ATI guy was when their halo product had to have 2 GPUs on one card to take the performance crown. I went all out with 2 Radeon 3870x2 in SLI. Ended up ditching one of them then became frustrated by the linux driver support for the one I kept. Left a sour taste in my mouth regarding ATI cards after that.
I'd love it if we were paying 70 dollars, but fuckers want £70 here. Its a £20+ increase on last gen prices.
Yeah, I think high price of the consoles (that would have usually significantly dropped by now) coupled with high price of games is a partial cause of this.seriously. why hasn't there been a price drop for next gen systems yet? that would increase sales...
Video game crash incoming
I was looking seriously at that. One of the games I was really interested in playing was Need for Speed Underground 1 and 2. I saw a video that showed some trouble on the R4P on those titles… but these things are always improving…
About half the world are women so the audience definitely exists. A report from Circana said 52% of Switch owners were women for example.
How is 25% drop "slightly down"? They are predicting 4.6M shipped for this quarter when they shipped 6.1M last quarter.
MS this gen took the gas off and killed their marketing department. You cant expect sales to go up, when your marketing department is in the gutter.
500 is alot these days. Everything is expensive and you cant waste the money around.
It's stil a whole lot of consoles, my dude. They were overly optimistic with their forecast but far from doomed, you know.
The final quarter of their last fiscal year will primarily be down due to this quarter in 2023 being the end of PS5 shortages.
Thief. Robing the Cradle. Steam Deck.
The reason you have all the shit monetization options is precisely the reason you are still buying games at $70.
Mobile games have long life these days.
It's due to lower PS5 sales.
sadly, it seems like it might be the only impetus for developers to start trying to make games that are actually fun again.Video game crash incoming
my experience with both ati and amd has been primarily one of pain, confusion, frustration, and disappointment
Do you want to know the worst part? the two cards in crossfire (Quad GPUs) sometimes performed worse than a single card (dual GPUs) in games or at best only gave 5fps extra. I mainly bought it because I was developing on Geant4 and openGL and thought I could get a really powerful workstation going but the linux drivers were catastrophic.
sounds like a driver issue as the cards themselves clearly had the horsepower to attain more than just 5fps. i'm not familiar with how crossfire works but nvidia sli worked by having one card draw every other line. last time i ran more than one slotted gpu was with voodoo2s in sli , at the time they were 3d cards only and i actually had to run a third card just to draw 2d windows, at that time i think it was win9x. i used to run quake2 at 1280x1024 / 60fps with occasional drops, definitely was not possible with just one, but i think it was the openGL driver.
If they're planning on using their live-service games as a Trojan horse to get people to sign up for their online ecosystem, it will most likely be successful.
Over what period, though? Q1/Q2 2023 when PS5 was finally getting out of stock shortages?
In my country we have a housing crisis. People are paying €1500 rent to live in a shoebox.
They sold 22 million last year, sit down.
He wasn't happy you know this, significantly worse this year, you know.
Show me. Are you talking about 2023 or fiscal? 22M is a lot and if he wasn't happy with that, fuck him. It's almost all of Series sales in a year.
