The company is focusing on profitability in its third year.

Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’::Sony has cut its sales forecast by 4 million units for the fiscal year, down from 25 million to 21 million. It comes as the company missed its sales projections by a million.

      • PlantObserver@lemmy.worldEnglish
        188·
        5 months ago

        Fair but thats your choice to upgrade. No one says you have to, and they don’t lock games behind needing insert current gen CPU or gpu

        • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
          223·
          5 months ago

          Your choice to upgrade just your GPU for as much or more than the entire cost of a PS5 as frequent or more frequently than you’d need to buy a new PS5.

          As an avid PC gamer and PlayStation enjoyer, part of the console appeal is being able to drop a relatively small amount of money (compared to a gaming PC) on a single console and then you just don’t have to worry about upgrades or the performance of games for like 6+ years. There are a lot of us long time computer nerds that are just tired of unoptimized trash or new technologies making our rigs outdated in as little as a year or two.

          • gerbler@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            5 months ago

            There’s also the simplicity. I enjoy my PC for sure but for some people the ease of popping in a disc or downloading the title and it running perfectly on the first try is a major selling point. Troubleshooting my Ex’s PC for 2 hours only to realise I didn’t install the standoffs is an experience I can’t get on console.

            • PlasticExistence@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              5 months ago

              Troubleshooting my Ex’s PC for 2 hours only to realise I didn’t install the standoffs is an experience I can’t get on console.

              Hey, have some faith in yourself! I’m sure you can fuck up your console hardware just as well as your ex’s PC!

            • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              5 months ago

              Oh yeah 100%. If I want to play the latest casual open world adventure game, I don’t want to spend time trying to figure out why I’m having mysterious frame rate dips. Do I need new drivers? Is the game poorly optimized? Is it a bug? Is their V-sync implementation broken? Is it an issue with my specific graphics card vendor so I’m SOL? Is it a thermal issue? Let’s spend all Saturday figuring it out.

              Or just buy it on PS5 and it just works.

        • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          11·
          5 months ago

          I mean they kind of do with performance and unoptimised games. I can’t play many current AAAs on my 1050Ti. Cyberpunk for example.