Bleak future with almost record breaking profits every quarter. Until a lot of consumers learn to stop tolerating thigns they'll never face a bleak future. Especially with Xbox dicking around even worse
I dont think you've been paying attention if you think its one mediocre game. If wolverine does poorly, that's 4 games in a row that have sold badly. Concord, marathon, Saros, and now Wolverine looks shaky. Add in the fact that they've cancelled even more games in the background. The last hit of Sony was Astrobot as far as I can remember 2 years ago
Its future is bleak, because they’ve made numerous brain dead decisions that will hurt them over time. Alienating playerbases, taking their reputation for the best single player experiences and turning 180 degrees to focus on multiplayer, which is CLEARLY a failure… they now are what, a console? They’re not elite. They’re also-ran. They’re coasting on a name and unless they change their leadership, it’ll eventually catch up to the metrics. There is always a story associated with the data, and there are always business people looking to just focus on numbers instead. Think about it. If your golden goose is drawing for you in big numbers, why would you suddenly start beating it and starving it, and trying to get people to show up for a regular pig instead? Eventually people will see how you handle the things that bring you your success, and stop trusting you.
Sony's stock is flat over the last 5 years and down 20% from its high. Gross profit is 19% in the last 4 years, but between the yen falling 13% in the time period against the USD and high inflation, adjusted for that gross profits are down from 4 years ago.
If you JUST look at last quarter earnings... it looks like Playstation performed well from the headline number, but that's almost exclusively from tariff refunds, and revenue sales actually decreased in the quarter.
I dont really get the staning for a big company. I dont think Sony is dead, but even they will be internally agreeing that they are currently performing very poorly and needing to do major course correction. If Xbox wasn't also underperformed, they might be in trouble
They have lost an obscene amount of money and more importantly development resources on their massive, failed live service initiative. They have problems that run far deeper than one game
You underestimate how valuable PR is and the long term impact it has on profitability. This year was always going to go well sales wise bec GTA 6 is coming out. The amount of ppl that in the long run will switch off Sony has massively increased after the whole disc thing and all the awful decisions since. Especially with your average joe getting more interested in PCs
The discs thing isn’t a thing. The next gen of consoles was always going to be digital. They’re not losing any significant number of customers over it.
As for the awful decisions since the ‘disc thing’. They haven’t made any awful decisions. The Kojima decision was smart, not awful.
numbers don't lie, except this (along with the other 50 things they have going on) is fucking AWFUL for them and they're not going to take this well internally
you guys forget that profitability for corporations is secondary to seeming successful to attract more future money, and Sony has been in the dumps lately which will affect them in the short term (which is what they care about)
Not gonna lie, I had high hopes for Wolverine but it’s only because everything else they produce is top tier record breaking. Spiderman, Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. Can’t fault them for a single average game when they’ve been hitting 10s forever. They’ve earned a pass or two.
Marathon is a pretty good game that sold like shit cause it's an extraction shooter from a dev team that was under fire for years, and Concord is a genuine anomaly event that can't be placed on the same level as anything else
One? And the rest. PS5 has been mid on top of mid on top of flop for Sony. Half their games have been cancelled this generation after wasting years chasing Live Service, then half of those released have been below PS4 quality for writing and game play.
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u/ZxynesZxero 15h ago
Bleak future with almost record breaking profits every quarter. Until a lot of consumers learn to stop tolerating thigns they'll never face a bleak future. Especially with Xbox dicking around even worse