Japan will be the 2nd biggest market for PS5, just like it was than PS4.
Switch YTD 175,400
Well damn. Those are still very good numbers for its 7th year and still close to the PS5. Good for the PS5 though!
With those numbers you can even add Ouya as a competitor.
My post is sarcasm. There are posters(not all) out there saying Japan region diminishing as reasons why PS sales are low. Contrary to history and proven wrong over time as reported numbers trickle out.
Its nuts that when we see playstation = Nintendo and ms together, its hasn't been for Nintendo with a comfortable second place , its just ms third has been pathetic
Outside of the US and UK I feel like not that many people care about xbox or MS doesnt really put in the effort to make it a worldwide brand but then use it as a reason they need to acquire more so they can compete when the market has already spoken combined with their lack of effort.
About time the Spanish were given a taste of freedom™.
You can't really say Sony or Nintendo are making much effort either. Sony is mostly relying on their history of success in the region.
Yeah if MS keep eating publishers PS will lack main content. So then 2 things can happen: people quit game or move to Xbox platform.
Both Sony and Nintendo are making a lot of effort in terms of content and marketing.
With the Slim and Spider-Man 2, that will be extremely unlikely.
Ah yes I forgot Spiderman and Mario Wonder come out on the same say. It probably won't happen then (unless Switch gets a price cut).
And some people are worried that now with ABK MS would have a monopoly
I was speaking to the worldwide market in total... not specifically these couple. Look at what Sony is doing in Asian markets and partnerships with devs and such
And some people are worried that now with ABK MS would have a monopoly
We have to remember that in the whole EU the split is 80%-20% according to MS. Outside USA and maybe Mexico (at least in the past Mexico was one of the most pro Xbox countries) it's being a blood bath.
Shooters are specially popular in the USA, and Sony is now betting in many 1st and 2nd party shooters. I assume that if one or two of them become super popular can end being a blood bath in NA too. I the ones developed by ex-Halo and Destiny devs (Marathon, Concord) have more numbers.
And some people are worried that now with ABK MS would have a monopoly
We have to remember that in the whole EU the split is 80%-20% according to MS. Outside USA and maybe Mexico (at least in the past Mexico was one of the most pro Xbox countries) it's being a blood bath.
Shooters are specially popular in the USA, and Sony is now betting in many 1st and 2nd party shooters. I assume that if one or two of them become super popular can end being a blood bath in NA too. I the ones developed by ex-Halo and Destiny devs (Marathon, Concord) have more numbers.
Switch hasn't shown it needed a price cut during Holidays for sales bump. In fact the opposite has happened, OLED being price higher and previous editions staying same. The bundles Switch had in holiday even went up in price. They even released theme edition with same price that had sales bumps, MK, AC and Zelda...as examples.
10 years would mean until close to PS7 release, and Xbox as console may not even exist in 10 years from now. Sony would have like a decade and a half to find replacements for CoD.
In terms of finantials to stop selling them in PS, and also almost from Xbox and PC because of "day one on GP" is really stupid specially considering how expensive they are to make. That would be a highly unprofitable move.
Sure sounds like BS talk after what's been revealed in courts. This year seems to be last year of CoD exclusivity perks on PlayStation. CoD is around 1.5 billion revenue yearly for Sony. As a competitor that is so much information you can use to help MS or to hurt Sony.
As a competitor, I wouldn't be signing a deal like that.
Sony has a lead over MS of 2:1 or more in most metrics regarding consoles and game subs. Also, only around 10% of the PS users play CoD and most of them wouldn't leave if somewhere in the future CoD would go console exclusive. That move wouldn't really hurt Sony so much, and would hurt MS growing the loses of their gaming business. Also, maybe in 10 years from now Xbox console maybe don't even exist.
We have to remember that 1.5B is a small portion of the around 25B that PS makes per year (only counting SIE, not Lasengle, Aniplex, Crunchyroll games etc). And that Sony may be paying a good chunk to get the CoD marketing and small exclusivity perks.Sure sounds like BS talk after what's been revealed in courts. This year seems to be last year of CoD exclusivity perks on PlayStation. CoD is around 1.5 billion revenue yearly for Sony. As a competitor that is so much information you can use to help MS or to hurt Sony.
Probably 10/90. Many people are buying the Series S as an affordable Game Pass machine, and it's probably their second console.
That's a great idea! Something to consider! hmm
Sure sounds like BS talk after what's been revealed in courts. This year seems to be last year of CoD exclusivity perks on PlayStation. CoD is around 1.5 billion revenue yearly for Sony. As a competitor that is so much information you can use to help MS or to hurt Sony.
Whered you get those numbers, according to sonys poorly redacted docs 2/3 of us players have played call of duty, 6 million plays 70% of their time on call of duty and 1 million play nothing but call of duty, if the eurozone is similar ratios maybe 15 million players find call of duty is incredibly important and would probably go xbox if it were exclusive,
Meanwhile in the real world Sony just had a summer sale in Spain reducing the price of Ps5 by 100€.
