Then I don't understand why you would think "the market" is shrinking when you can simply add up Sony + Nintendo and see the console market is as healthy as it has ever been
Nintendo is about to drop the Switch 2 and Sony is about to drop the PS5 Pro too
The market isn't shrinking, only the Xbox market share is shrinking.
The attach rate seems to be pretty awful right? Sony tends to boost about their high attach rates but are quiet this gen. The experiment with $70 games that don't go on proper sale for years have failed miserably.
What a statement. We do know that even with overall less units sold on FP software, they've been vastly growing in terms of revenue this gen.
Yes, their software revenue grew every year and that they released a sales record breaking 1st party game in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Regarding the attach rate or lifetime valye / average revenue per user must be (launch aligned) at gaming history record levels, better than in any other console ever, because it was at record levels last year and this year they improved hardware, software, services and accesories revenue.
I assume they'll mention it in their Business Segments Meeting this May 30th.
This is what they said there last year:
Please notice that nowadays addons and gamesubs represent a huge portion of the game revenue, so attach rate became less important as KPI. Specially when considering there are many F2P or super discounted games games. Now it's more important to look instead at console user spend / lifetime value (both shown above, they are the same: the money spent by the player in everything other than in the hardware).
So, sony and microsoft have lost sales to switch.
Makes sense for games like fortnite and younger audience I guess.
Nah, Sony has a bigger userbase than Switch and generates way more sales. Sony keeps increasing their market share. Sales that keep growing every year. Regarding hardware units, PS5 is selling a lot of them to new players: around 60M players play every month on PS5 and 60M more still are in PS4, so being that engaged will make the jump somewhere later. Maybe once crossgen games stop being released or supported in previous gen, or when the economy allows them to do so.