Sony raised some eyebrows when it was revealed that their first party lineup at E3 2015 may be a little "sparse". In a new opinion piece, Skewewd and Reviewed look at what Sony may have in mind and say fans should not be worried by this comment.
Mass Damage & Consumer Foundation in the Netherlands has filed a class action against Sony for inflating PlayStation Store prices.
My personal opinion:
Manufacturers and publishers have indeed inflated the industry.
From $700 million development costs for games like Call of Duty, to digital (store) prices for games and DLCs, online multiplayer fees on consoles (why can you play Helldivers 2 online for free on PC but not consoles?) or still preventing sell/lend digitally purchased games.
Sometime in the future, this bubble will collapse.
They should know better, but they just can't help themselves and suck even the last penny out of our wallets.
They should be suing the individual publishers increasing the prices to $80 instead of suing the store. There are plenty of publishers still selling game for like $50 with much success (like E33). But this proves that the publishers are the ones setting the prices.... so again nothing changes because they aren't even going after the main offender. How is suing Sony going to make Microsoft not charge $80 for the next COD? Sony being the number one store in the market doesn't mean that publisher have to charge us an arm and a leg. Again the industry is laughing at us because consumers never get real representation. Just these fake platitudes that are meaningless.
About time. There is zero fair reason why digitally distributed products that you cannot recoup any value when you want to dispose of them, should be priced higher than that of physical copies that entail all of the costs and the benefits of owning.
Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki and CFO Lin Tao talked about the state of the PlayStation business and the strategy and targets going forward, including how they're responding to the tariffs.
Sony announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2024, and things are certainly looking up, despite a decline in PS5 sales.
If their profits fall next quarter, we'll probably see more price hikes. I can't imagine having to pay £20 a month for PlayStation Plus.
Decline in hardware sales.
Behind on lifetime sales and decline in first party sales.
Third party content and PSN came through to save the day.
Things will improve starting with the next Ghost game.
Hopefully a steady flow of first party content by end of '25
They shouldn't . Just because they don't have first party exclusive games doesn't mean they don't have second or third party games....like
Rime
Everybody's gone to the rapture
No mans sky
Persona 5
Disaga 5
Hell blade
Tearaway
SFV
GOW and uncharted remasters
Are all exclusive ps4 games...and Sony usually has a surprise game which can be...
The last guardian
The new ip from the kills one devs
The new ip from sucker punch
A GOW 4 from ssm ....complete with a beta key if you buy GOW3 lol
These are my surprise wishes and are all possible...plus the usual load of interesting indies in sure Sony will have a great conference ....as will ms and Nintendo . A plethora of first party games aren't needed, Unless we are talking Nintendo. First party doesn't mean exclusive just means it's made by a company. Sony said First party game a spares....not exclusive games.
Nope.
o look this is new /s
If this year was sparse, what do you call last year?