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[Kacho]

Neither Playstation nor Xbox care about gamers feelings about their offerings because they both offer a wide variety of genres, they are in the market to make money (well.. Playstation is...).
If Shark cards and Fortnite bucks sell well it's because people buy them and it's what they want to buy.
Terrible taste, yes, but that's the gamers fault, not the platform holder.

It's obvious they don't care, that's why they chased GAAS with reckless abandon. They aren't reaching ever increasing profit with single player games.

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

Canis is the one designed to be affordable. MLID thinks the Dockable Handheld could be $499, and then they do could a SKU without the screen for $299-$349.

16 CU RDNA5 when docked should be more powerful than a 20 CU RDNA2 Series S.

I'm strictly talking about the home consoles i.e PS6 vs PS5. Sony is doing a level of cost cutting (CU increase, memory bus size, CPU etc) with the PS6 that they didn't with the PS5 and that's a reaction to the PS5 price situation over the years.

 

[Topher]

You can't do that

That's Topher 's Trademark

All good. I'm slacking. Mayar is backing me up.

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

Sony's fault is that for 30 years they are constantly doing what's right for the platform and not farming fanboy aura on gaming forums with borderline insane mergers.

There are missteps of course, like GaaS pivot or Cell that almost killed the entire Sony Corporation, but internationally they are The Home Console, they truly know their broad audience market (Portal is a great proof of that) and with very strong post-PS5 ecosystem debt that is very unlikely to change in the fourth decade of PlayStation to come.

Also OP is being stupid but it is what it is.

 

[Tobimacoss]

I'm strictly talking about the home consoles i.e PS6 vs PS5. Sony is doing a level of cost cutting (CU increase, memory bus size, CPU etc) with the PS6 that they didn't with the PS5 and that's a reaction to the PS5 price situation over the years.

Sure, but the prices increased in other areas. Like TSMC charge rates. Plus, once you have a market cornered, you don't simply reduce prices if there's no need.

PS6S $349

PS6 Portable $499 (without a Dock)

PS6 Home Console $699 (without a disc drive or stand).

The PS6S would be enough to bring on board the PS4 userbase, as that device would be at least 3 times more powerful than a PS4, and capable of running the mainstream games like FortNite.

 

[DeltaPolarBear]

Hey I remember people saying this in 2019, Sony is a cult they will never lose ever.

That sounds like excuses for why Xbox with infinite money still lost. Face it, Xbox just sucked that bad. PS is not invincible, they just sucked less.

I look forward to a new competitor now that Xbox is officially on their way out. It would take 6 year at least from today due to game development speeds. But i expect someone to take a crack at it by 2031.

My original best bet was Amazon. But their recent layoffs with gaming means I now see it as unlikely. Maybe a Korean company?

 

[kevboard]

there won't even be a traditional "next gen" to lose or win.
the landscape is completely splintering.
Nintendo's 10th gen system is already out, and is a handheld hybrid... Microsoft seems to be making a PC hybrid... and Sony is essentially the only one left with a traditional home console for gen10 it seems...

but then Sony also is making a hybrid handheld as a secondary thing, and maybe Microsoft will also make a Handheld, given how they seem to work on multiple APUs with AMD. maybe Microsoft will make a low end and high end PC console hybrid?
but, honestly, "next gen" will maybe finally be an interesting console generation again, after 3 generations where Sony and MS made super similar consoles, next gen will be a bit more interesting due to how everyone seems to go into slightly different directions.

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

 

[KimDongHwan]

Will the PSIIIIII even get released?

 

[nial]

and Sony is essentially the only one left with a traditional home console for gen10 it seems...

Kinda hard to believe, isn't it?
Back in 1999, SCE was preparing the PlayStation 2 while the PlayStation was performing strong, Sega's Dreamcast was already out for a while, and the Nintendo 64 was still trucking along with a successor in line.
In 2027, though? SIE will be preparing the PlayStation 6 while PlayStation 5 will still perform strong... and that's about it? If the Xbox Series isn't discontinued in the following year, they will sure as hell not be available in the market by the end of 2027.

 

[DeltaPolarBear]

It is still hard to believe we are only 20 years away from the mythical PS9. It is possible we would never get there, but when the advert came out in 2000 it seemed impossibly far away. We are literally more than half way there now.

Spoiler: spoiler for size

 

[Tobimacoss]

It is still hard to believe we are only 20 years away from the mythical PS9. It is possible we would never get there, but when the advert came out in 2000 it seemed impossibly far away. We are literally more than half way there now.

Spoiler: spoiler for size

It better be a Sphere. Plus Sony will still be able to sell a stand to prevent it from rolling over.

 

[Forsete]

Sony lost the battle of PS1 before the battle of PS9 even started.

 

[Forsete]

Will the PSIIIIII even get released?

No, but the PSIIIIIII will. Mark my words and ask ChatGPT to save it for you.

 

[nial]

It is still hard to believe we are only 20 years away from the mythical PS9. It is possible we would never get there, but when the advert came out in 2000 it seemed impossibly far away. We are literally more than half way there now.

Spoiler: spoiler for size

Love how it's set in 2078, when will get the PS9 three entire decades before that year.

 

[MisterXDTV]

Is this thread a joke I'm not getting?

Their only direct competitor just left the market

 

[JerryinSoCal]

if ifs and buts were candy and nuts

All of the above is a complete hypothetical, there is zero evidence that consoles are going anywhere soon and I don't know were you got this consoles are declining from, PlayStation revenues are way up (record breaking for them), Nintendo just beat loads of records with Switch, PS5 is in line to be as successful as PS4 (maybe more so), the only complete failure is MS, and yet, according to you , they are in the best position, or at least better than Sony. And as far as 1 game per year, so far that is true, but that doesn't mean it will stay like that (missteps with GAAS has slowed down development for a good few PlayStation studios), and even with 1 game a year, quality over quantity each and every time for me.

I think you have it in your mind that because MS is going the PC route that everyone will buy that instead of consoles? consoles (by comparison) are cheap, that's the main reason why they sell, one less console, one that has been floundering for a while, isn't going to change that, in fact, due to MS's exit (if that happens) I expect PlayStation to do even better.

The one game a year thing isn't really even true now, they had multiple first party games every year for the first few and even this year they've published 3 AAA games, one was developed by an outside studio but they published it.

 

[Enzo88]

Legit question:
Do you people think we will always have dedicated hardware instead of games just being on your screen in other ways?
If we reach that point, why would people stick with sony's launcher /service?

 

[Durin]

Eh, Microsoft may be doing a hybrid device, but they will struggle to sell their weaker storefront against Steam...unless they make BIG improvements.

Sony and Valve will likely eat Microsoft marketshare on game sales next-gen.

The only struggles for Sony are that the costs to keep pushing stagnating graphical jumps, keeping dev time for AAA games in check, and making a good handheld offering to keep growing. Long-term struggle that is most interesting to me are that Microsoft and Valve both have vectors to release a flurry of games to the bigger smartphone/audience through ARM translation layers, and Sony by comparison still has to port much of theirs.