I think it's probably not so much about what was said..
PS5 is doing great, though, particularly given the barriers it faces.
As for Sony as a whole, they just need to get their phones back to great. They were awesome around the XZ Premium era, but have slid into tier 2 category overall for the past few years imo.
Sony TVs are as amazing as ever though, thankfully!
VGarbage off by a million. What else is new. That's why he got downvotes because there's a whole slew of posters who defend that puke here and treat it like gospel. Maybe his previous rep or ppl don't understand business.
As someone who worked in the cellphone business for years, investing in mobile would be a waste of time. That industry is ran by Apple, Samsung, and old Nokia phones globally. The only dent they could make would be in the tablet market as there isn’t really an Android based tablet that is functional enough to be a laptop or iPad replacement even though the tech is there-ish and there is an audience for it. So a high-end tablet with the right price or a Playstation Tab are the only way they make an impact on the market currently (especially in NA).
What they can do is work on other aspects to sell to the phone industry. They already provide imaging sensors, so if they can work on displays and speakers / audio both of which the currently manufacture, and start investing in new tech like desktop and mobile RAM under a subsidiary. That’s on the tech side alone.
@Abizzle, you may have worked in telecoms once but times change. Xiaomi are bigger than Samsung. What you need to realise that there's more to the world than just the west. Xiaomis growth is mental to see whilst Samsung are restructuring and wondering why less and less people are buying their phones yearly.
Samsung are great but to say the market is ran by Apple and Samsung is a very old way of thinking what things haven't been doing as well (still seriously good though) in recent years
Samsung has been the biggest phone manufacturer for almost a decade. A slow couple of generations for Samsung (of which the industry is slowing due to lack of innovation), is still DRASTICALLY better than any other provider except Apple.....which is number 2, and has been for nearly a decade since Samsung overtook them.
Xiaomi is big because it is a Chinese company making cellphones in the country with the world's largest population so their growth is based on the region they sell in, and also based on the fact they are a brand pushed by the Chinese government because they are stealing everyone's data who uses their phones.
I worked in that industry since i was 18 for nearly a decade from Level 1, to 1B, 1A, 2 switch to another provider into a Level 3 position. One of my last jobs in that industry was working with partners on brand awareness, and expansion into global markets and during that time our Sony partners had a single phone, same with Blackberry, and both companies ended up closing all of their mobile effects with global brands.
If they don't bring a phone that offers a very specific niche (PS Phone) or that completely moves the market forward technologically hardware-wise (notebook performance, with good battery life, and cooling), software-wise (an iOS level event), or in some other manner that truly matters to people (AR / Hologram) it will launch and die once again.
The only traditional phone spaces they could find a large enough audience to get back into the top 10 is making one of the best budget phones on the market or by partnering with Google to make the Nexus phones and have them launch with the newest version of Android OS each generation and the newest ARM processors, and even then people will still pick a Samsung over it 99 times out of 100.
Yeah imagine how high ps5's numbers would be if there weren't chip shortages. There are still enough people who weren't able to buy one, more than one year after release. 🤯
clearly there are plenty who haven't bought one yet. Considering the PS4 install base was well north of 115 million and we only have 17.3 million PS5's sold to date. That means 100 million+ people haven't been able to buy one yet. Long ways to go, generations aren't based on a single year. Things will only get better for them.
I wouldn't equate the 2. It's partially to promote to investors/ keep them in the know of what's happening. But also when you're leading in sales you like to brag a bit. Console wars is something fan-bases made up, for them it's just doing business, it's competition but they don't hate each other.
I wonder if there is a method of finding out how many consoles actually made it to consumers versus scalpers. It's been almost a year since launch, and I still cannot buy one anywhere except from scalpers for $750+ on ebay.
Data suggests between 5 and 10% . I got a ps5 at launch and have had the opportunity twice to buy other ps5 retail wise. In the UK the GAME retailer doesn't stock them in the front of of the store but at the back hidden and you have to ask for them. I bought a second one and got the money back off my brother who gave it me nephew for Xmas, the other one was still unsold by 2:30 in the afternoon and so my psn friend came down to Coventry from derby to pick it up. Imo gamers who don't have one are still hoping to buy one online when really they should be in constant contact everyday with there local GAME. I can guarantee you NOW if you pick up the phone and call your local GAME store everyday at 9am for a month you'll have yourself a ps5 or series X.
Excellent suggestions....unfortunately I've used online bots, store notifications, etc. I've also been on the horn with gamestop at least once a week since launch, with no luck so far. Seems to be plenty of them on ebay....
I think at this point, with as much effort as I have put into securing one, I would be much better served just waiting on my steamdeck. It's a shame really, as I've owned a Sony console every generation... not this one apparently.
So VGChartz is off by about 1mil. Glad to see all of Sony in the black.
Console shipment numbers by comparison in the same timeframe:
PS3 - 12.85M
PS4 - 20.1M
3DS - 17.13M
Switch - 17.79M
17.3M maybe less than they anticipated at this point (due to the component shortages), but it is definitely still great performance for a console.
Why do we continue to post sales? Is this still a console War?
What happened to the endless Shipped not Sold arguments on N4G lol I miss those...
Second biggest quarter in Sony history and 111 millions monthly users on December.