According to Sony, changes to the launch dates of a "portion of first-party titles" impacted the company's profitability.
Lin Tao has been appointed as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Sony, making her the first woman to hold this position at the company.
Sony has inadvertently leaked the upcoming Silent Salvation Warbond for Helldivers 2, fueling speculation about new stealth gear and ongoing faction battles ahead of the game's one-year anniversary.
...how did a site that's primary focus is selling digital keys get posted here?
Now I see they're using this poorly written "article" to push digital keys "Will you be diving into the fight? You can find a cheap Helldivers 2 key in our price comparison."
It's a price comparison - how do you think news sites make money? At least this page isn’t selling your data to advertisers or anyone who wants it.
Sony hosted its quarterly financial conference call, and CFO and COO Hiroki Totoki provided more insight into the the PlayStation business.
"Astro Bot has sold 1.5 million units copies in the 9 weeks since its release. Interestingly, 37% of those who purchased the game had not bought any first-party game from Sony in the past 2 years."
Not that Sony released a bunch of games during that timeframe huh?!!
Release a great game at a reasonable price and it sells. Wow what a concept! :)
So Sony wants to be good old Sony? Not a bad idea but then stop with horizon milking and gaas for a while
I don't really think people would very harping on GAAS if Sony had released more single player games. Although my two most played games this year are Sony's Helldivers 2 and Microsoft's Call of Duty... which are both GAAS.
Sony is big enough to make both work but they should do more of this and let their fans know the single player games are coming (even though we already know about at least 8 of them)
By the way this is good news. I love their single player games too.
Yes, that would be great, do that. We sure got some bangers this year with Stellar Blade, Astro Bot, and FFVII Rebirth.
2025 Yotei and DS2
2026 Wolverine + Horizon MP
2027 Naughty Dog new IP and Venom
2028 Santa Monica new IP and FFVII-3
2029
2030 Physint
I hope they manage Yotei properly, put a gag order on that Voice actor, stop her from antagonising the whole player base.
Seriously, they should have been more careful choosing who represents their games. I have no issue with her, but i do see why her choice may be a concern for many people. It’s just not a risk worth taking
All great games, but i think Sony talking about 1st party and i think in their minds Astro Bot isn’t one of those big games and wasn’t expected to be as successful as it turned out.
Finally... Sony this gen seems to learn all the mistakes Microsoft done and just repeated them.
Sony still on board with that sh1t too
No wonder this gen is so damn slow and boring... I need to see what Ps5 can do and play amazing single player games but the output has been very poor so far and we still see Cross gen games and now they release another Ps5.2
Yeah Indiana Jones, Avowed, Doom, Fable, Clockwork Revolution, Perfect Dark, and Everwild are all GAAS.
Oh wait you're a liar and just making stuff up.
Check their last showcase and let us know once more.. you are so clueless and speaking of pure ignorance..
They closed all the studios that did these. Japan Studios, Pixelopus, etcetera.
Unfortunately 97% or PS5 owners didn’t buy AstroBot, they’re a money making enterprise in the end and if people don’t buy the games, they won’t keep making them
The problem with that approach is the scope of gaming contracts. There's a reason we're seeing fewer experimental titles and many of the newer ones play similarly to popular games.
“No word on which games were delayed, though”
Et tu, Factions? 🤔
We got so many games coming out this year, why even complain? Many games are making their target release date. Sony got some VR games as well coming and a horror survival game this month for PS5
Chasing the live service genre is a huge gamble. If they get one hit that's on par with today's heavy hitters, then the investment will be worth it 100x. But history tells us that a huge % of these titles fail - even ones from established studios with AAA budgets.
Over the last two generations, Sony have excelled in making brilliant cinematic single player games. Those games helped them to be the number 1 publisher for both revenue and profits and by quite some distance. Hopefully the lack of releases recently isn't a sign of the business pivoting to a completely different model because frankly, that'll suck. The current model is both commercially and critically successfully so it doesn't need changing on a whim just to chase the GaaS big bucks! #prayforplaystation
Hopefully that means a packed 2024.
I'm mostly surprised that we still don't even know what their major studios are up to. Sucker Punch, Naughty Dog (single player), Bluepoint, Team Asobi, Media Molecule....
No Sh+t Louise, Delaying a game to the next quarter means that we won't have the profit of that game this quarter like we budget last year!
I'm Glad we have a complete article on the main page explaining these important things.