Can The Sony PlayStation Remain The Top-Selling Gaming Console?
The Sony PlayStation changed the gaming industry’s landscape when it was introduced to players 30 years ago. The PlayStation 2 went on to become best-selling console of all time, a title it still holds today. But the company has its fair share of challenges ahead with the ever-changing gaming sector. Just last year, Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard threatened the landscape of gaming exclusivity. And Sony faces some headwinds with lower demand and industry-wide layoffs. Sony has continually adapted and evolved over the span of the past three decades, but can it continue to hold strong in the console wars? CNBC spoke with Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan, former SIE Worldwide Studios chairman Shawn Layden and other experts to find out.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:55 An early hit
6:08 Rough patch
8:15 Content is king
12:05 Looking ahead
Produced by: Ryan Baker
Technology Correspondent: Steve Kovach
Edited by: Nic Henry
Supervising Producer: Jeniece Pettitt
Additional Camera: Andrew Evers
Animation: Uma Sharma, Christina Locopo, Jason Reginato
Additional Production: Liam Mays
Additional Footage: Sony, Getty Images
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Can The Sony PlayStation Remain The Top-Selling Gaming Console?
Did this dude say Xbox series 10? 😂
X = 10 ?!?😂😂😂
Or was it series L? 😆
Xbox gave up on consoles. They lost the war and admitted they are done with hardware
@@geoffcarroll05where did they say there done with hardware lol
@@geoffcarroll05No they havent lmao They are literally developing a handheld
"Xbox Series 10" is wild. His producer needs to help him
Xbox Series X
X means 10
What about the PS9
@@ericraymond3615 X doesn't really mean 10. X is the roman numeral for 10.
"wild" why is everything wild nowadays
Man's couldn't even do a bit of research calling it a Xbox Series 10
That’s an old video
X =10 🤦♂️
Nobody cares about xbox thats why
@@monkeyboykc3190 X doesn't always represent a Roman numeral. So X-Men = 10-Men? XBox Series X = 10Box Series 10? Tesla Model X = Tesla Model10? XXX = 101010? XFactor TV show = 10Factor? DirectX = Direct10?
Why not lol people fight over hyped games that are full of bugs or bastardize the original. Let alone sports games and fighters with their predatory dlc and currency when they get obsolete within a year anyway. Though vid may not be best. Short answer is ps5 is console king though they shot themselves in the foot through ps plus price increases (the sales forgive this and the $10/lack of ps5 upgrade version let alone adding an occasional good game, even if you own on a competitor, to load faster). However, the hybrid consoles may overtake it given switch success, and steam deck for a stronger machine though asus rog ally (can't dock to tv) can use windows 11 and that opens up new doors. Xbox is a game pass ecosystem to use on hybrid or series S. No real point to upgrade either digital system as ps5 slim is $50 more and you need a separate stand to go vertical (original did both). Sony also censored sexual content from games more than nintendo lol 20 bunnies (though steam has an adult games filter). I omit series x unless you need physical retro backwards compatible games as many xbox games do not have physicals, let alone releases unlike competitors, and even then, you got access with steam deck as well. At least smart delivery is cool as a free upgrade and series s good filler for out of stock ps5 back then. Limited specs nowadays. It will be difficult for nintendo to compete with this as they're milking mario really badly this year. At least they perform well on the old bird, and are making first party games unlike Sony, who has completely abandoned psvr2 as well after that boring rock climbing horizon game (the Wizards is way better). 1:40 gaming crashed in 2024 and sony/xbox had tons of layoffs unlike Nintendo.
Sony needs to make a full PlayStation documentary like Xbox did a couple of years ago
There are many already
Agreed. That Xbox documentary was really well done.
@@pse2020We needed that Sony produce it themselves. Probably tell some stuff that weren't told before. Like some truth of what was happening. They could shed some truth of what was happening during the PS3 era and why they were slumped so bad against Xbox 360 that even have its own major issue, like the Red Ring of Death (which Microsoft themselves admitted on their documentary series on it's because of rapid cycle of thermal expansion of the chip). Or explain why they decided to choose Cell and SPU over conventional architecture for the PS3.
irrelevant platform :/
There've been many and they're all cool to watch and see the brains behind all our fun childhood memories talk retrospectively about their greatest life's work
Seeing Cinema bringing jn $81b a year and thinking Avatar was worth literally 5% of that is wild
"wild" why is everything wild nowadays
@@thedishonestjeffsokol2489 They lack vocabulary.
@@thedishonestjeffsokol2489 Cause it's a little shocking
Read a book and improve your vocabulary skills.
They wild-ing, bro! 😆
Playstation growing up was truly what got me into video games. I made friends through it. Same for Nintendo. I own the ps3, ps4 and now ps5. I also own the N64, Wii and the Switch.
Same
bro this guy is a gaming addict holy 💀
Me too. SONY and Nintendo is a two pillar of gaming industry, but I wish they make another Nintendo Station and mixed IP series…
I’d throw the ps3 in the bin 😂😂😂
Good idea skipping gamecube to own a wii. Backwards compatibility really helped switching teams to afford a new console every gen when feasible. I did similar with xbone to ps5 though I did have a series s when ps5 was out of stock, but it helps giving to a friend and playing another copy of my digital games with better performance. Kinda useless now with steam decks and hybrid consoles playing game pass. Remote play is better everywhere else than ps portal that does nothing standalone. Yet that sold like spiderman 2 which had bugs and sony said they're retiring Peter (no 2 player nor 2 character campaign as you play as Peter or Miles as the missions tell you, let alone mary jane always wins with the taser lol). Ff7 rebirth sold a lot despite censoring Tifa and using a silly stagger gauge, and bsing with multiverse to be a deviantart version of the original lol.
I remember it was 1995, and my neighbor just had a kid. He couldn't play videogames anymore, he walked down the hill, with a PlayStation in hand, and gave it to me and my brothers for free. One of My favorite summers. Battle Arena Toshinden tournaments all summer long.
Lucky
That's awesome. I blessed a bro of mine cause at the time wasn't necessary dude had Christmas morning eyes.
What a dummy, he could've gave it to he's son to play later, also that was the year when it came out, he spend money 🤑💰 for nothing 😮
I think the PS3’s comeback story should’ve been featured. People forget that it ended up outselling the 360.
I believe if it wasn't for the rings of death issues, PS3 would of not caught up. Xbox360 was one of Microsoft's greatest consoles of all time.
Damn when u think about it, Xbox couldn't beat PS with a year head start & PS self sabotaging, 2 major handicaps & Xbox still couldn't win.
@@BigmobyD nope it was because of "the last of us" release in 2013 that vaulted the sales up. Great games sell consoles. Xbox seems to have forgotten that concept.
@@gkey06yea you’re right.
@@BigmobyD It was still a generic and kiddie trash console with tons of egregiously expensive peripherals. I got a PS3 and never looked back. ☝🏻
I’ve been supporting PlayStation for 30yrs?? Holy cow.
Pal much
Me 25 years was too young to get a playstation back in 1995 in the UK got in 1999. Playstation is amazing always has been.
@@huwdavies-tallon3305 lol I went through 4 PSX consoles in 95’-99’ the PSX modding community was so much fun
0:50 The iPhone X is pronounced as iPhone 10. So, I guess that's why he assumed the same for the Xbox Series X.
Yeeeeeah, It’s not though…
It’s ok, we all know what he meant. It doesn’t matter.
@@CT-vm4gfThen I’ll call you Connecticut very much 4 girlfriend then
Cope
It's also the dumbest and most confusing name of a console I've ever heard, so I don't blame him for getting confused
If Sony keeps porting their exclusives to PC then no its over. PS5 still has the potential to out sell PS2 but its not looking likely with PC porting. 1,000+ dislikes from salty PC, Nintendo, and Microsoft fans😂😂 . Jim Ryan you could have take PS5 to a whole new level. You're a legend in PlayStation but PC Porting and Japan Studio closing hurts.
Extremely bad take. The overlap between would-be console owners and PC gamers is nonexistent.
It's the reason why Sony is failing ...focus on hardware but spend $300 million to make one game that is bought only by 10% of the console base ...
pc is the best console lmao, playstation fans just mad that the only reason people buy the consoles is cuz the games r good
I am a PC builder since late 90’s. PC Elitists is all about “my PP .. er PC is better than your PC” or “your thermal paste application is stupid”. They think they are smarter than the Engineers that make the hardware. PS5 is a PC. It has the same hardware as a PC. It’s just simple to use. No need to fuss with drivers, graphics fidelity settings, etc… it just works. PC Elitists can just pretend they some technical wizard when even a 12 year old can build a PC now. It’s so easy a kid can do it. It’s not the same as being a System Administrator for a large IT company. They small fry compared to real IT professionals.
I have both a ps5 and a 4090fe built pc itx version and upgrade every 2 to 3 years love both mostly my custom parts like my keyboard yea 400 plus is a lot for keyboard but love it
Pretty good interview but one thing to clear up is the PS2 became successful due to having a built-in DVD player . The PlayStation 3 became successful not only because of its games but also because of the built-in Blu-ray player which was a brand new Cutting Edge technology at the time.
PS2 was backwards compatible so it felt like the console was consumer friendly by welcoming you to only expand your video game catalogue by having that bridge forward for users and still be able to keep classics you enjoyed. And the PS2 watershed moment for games was the release of GTA Vice City. Definitely helped push the sales of their consoles. Around that time, everyone and their mom were going ham with Vice City playing for days, lol.
The initial high price of the PS3 also overshadows the fact that it has a PS2 chip which means it's backward compatible with PS2 and PS1 games. Later PS3 consoles which sold with a price cut didn't have the chip. So essentially less money for way less feature you can get.
@@n_coreThe 60 Gig was the only one that could do that. The 20, 40 and 80 Gig couldn’t do that.
PS3 wasn't that successful...
Yeah, this makes the 120m PS4 sales even bigger in comparision. People say console market doesnt grow but nowadays u are certain ur customer bought u for their games not to watch movies on it
Who wrote the script 😂😂😂😂😂
Non-gamers.
probably sweet baby inc
Sony
@@Weissman111 The kings of gaming? Nah, but stay delusional, troll. 🤡
Definitely
Ps2 playing DVDs was huge cuz at the time DVD players was 1K which made buying a gaming console the better option which in turn made the DVD players prices come down that year in on word but it was still cheaper to just get the PS2😂
Truth. Watched many a movie in my PS2 back then
You could buy DVD player by November 2000 for 500
The ps2 was 300 @@RobertK1993
@@RobertK1993 Damn rip-off! 😆
Sony is an electronics company. Color me shocked! 😆
I still remember all those nights we played a rented(!) Playstation II during summer holidays...with the controller still attached to the console with a cable...At some point, I guess it was 2012, I bought myself a PS3, with Move controllers...loved it, it still works great and me and the kids still use it occasionally...last year I felt like I need an upgrade and after realistic evaluation of my needs and resources (mostly time, but money also), I bought myself an Xbox-Series S and I couldn't be more happy about it...small, portable, very powerful, no discs, very affordable (250 euro)...I've been playing Assassins Creed Odyssey since May last year and it's mind blowing awesome...
You shouldn’t have switched unless you can’t spend much funds on the ps5 😊
PS2 partly did so well because it was the cheapest way to get a DVD player.
Yep, that initially propelled the console forward until all the bangers started dropping.,
Yeah but that got many people in to gaming , that was a genius move ngl.
Just like the Wii sold so well because it was a physical therapy aid & was purchased by alot of rehab centers.
glad you put "partly" because we are not going to act like the PS2 library wasn't the best years in PS history. thats the MAIN reason it sold well. Dont get it twisted and follow this DVD narrative.
11:45 is the US press honestly comparing Sony buying out small developers with ActivisionBlizzard - the biggest third party out there at the time of purchase? 🤦♂️
Everyone does that & it's so irritating comparing small studios to large publishers people don't understand the vast difference in scale. A small studio=Storefront Large publisher=Mega mall.
Ps2 games were unmatched, so many different games and their individual content was unreal.
It really did have the best third party support of all time
Marvel vs Capcom 2 . The game of my youth
Sony and Microsoft fell into their own trap, which is investing only in the visuals of games, leaving fun in the background. They need to spend millions to develop a single game, taking years to finish. This has become a snowball effect. A game doesn't need to be photorealistic, in 4K or have ray tracing to be enjoyable. Nintendo is swimming in money because the focus is on fun and graphics are just a complement.
Sony yes... Ms mostly hardware not so much software.
Nintendo sells because kids and adults can play it. Parents can buy switch to each of their kids and can buy switch for themselves as well. For each family lets say they are 4 a mother, farher, and 2 kids 4 switch for each whereas you cannot do that on PS5 there can only be 1 ps5 in the livingroom 1 TV and that is it.
Frankly they should just leave their developers alone and work on their own console
The same thing happens in the TV industry as well. You have the "Resolution Wars" and the "Brightness Wars". Companies need to remember that what matters is the overall experiences, not just seeing who can pump out the most impressive specs on a spec sheet. Amazing how often that fact seems to get lost in all the noise.
no its because parents buy kids friendly games and almost every kid plays games. But not every adult so thats why nintendo is successfull
Nothing says winning like revising earnings down, studios bleeding money, and not expanding the user base beyond what was achieved 20 years ago with the ps2.
Nobody beat the ps2
@@kemar1997 The switch is knocking on the is door. Point being, they are selling the same number of units each generation. That is not growing the user base.
@@si2k7801 but they’re still supporting those generations . Nintendo isn’t supporting WiiU, they’re not even supporting pc.
You really don't beat the PS2 for console gaming. It popped up at a good time when people wanted DVD players and the prices were not great, so might as well get a PS2.
@@millirabbit4331 that’s the COPE you’re going with? Lol
I switched from Playstation to PC gaming and realized just how durable Xbox controllers are in comparision to Playstation controllers. The subscription fees for online multiplayer gaming on consoles isn't something I care to deal with so COD Warzone on PC works great for me. Funny how their anti-cheat system is hyper-focused on PC's when it's actually the console players that cheat.
Sony isn't beating Nintendo. I would I even say that they don't really compete since Nintendo has a slightly different audience
Nintendo has always been a child's audience. Sony and Microsoft's is AAA, adult-themed gaming. TOTALLY different, kinda apples to oranges.
@@thegood9those children grow up.
The PS5 entering the latter stages of its life cycle I really doubt sony will beat nintendo.
Ps2 best selling console
Ps2 best selling console
And still, they are laying off people and squeezing the studios like crazy. Bad timing for this, regardless of the anniversary
I mean, they did talk about the layoffs as well
That’s just the state of all gaming companies, dummy.
They only laid off their western workers, not their Japanese ones. Because Sony are Japanese. The West are just their cash cow.
Xbox laid off over double(1900) of employees than Sony lol
The gaming market layoffs have hit every major dev, kid. 🤡
This video should've came out five years ago. Sony is now having financial problems and are trying to find ways to get more money.
Not meeting high expectations ≠ financial problems. They themselves said they set the bar high cause they are confident in their capabilities.
What financial problems? Sony is doing incredibly well, even compared to the PS4 era. They aim to increase their profits, but that doesn't mean they have financial problems.
Their biggest problem is that the Switch is stealing their games.
@@LeonWagg Sony profit margins dropped significantly last quarter. Yes they're making a ton of money but they aren't keeping a lot of it because the cost of AAA games and Royalty fees they have to pay to Marvel for Spiderman and Wolverine.
@@NoMadKid Their new CEO literally said two weeks ago that Sony profit margins dropped significantly last quarter. Yes they're making a ton of money but they aren't keeping a lot of it because the cost of AAA games and Royalty fees they have to pay to Marvel for Spiderman and Wolverine. This is why they've been putting more of their first party games on PC. (Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut) has been announced for PC.
Every gamer is different. I prefer a Nintendo switch because the games are a little bit more friendly for me. I’m not into a lot of violent gory complex video games. I like the fun Mario and Zelda and just dance games that’s something that I don’t get from PlayStation but to each their own, I think that if you are mature, hard-core gamer, PlayStation is the best thing for you.
PS2 will always be my favorite console. It introduced me to socom, thus introducing me to online gaming...good times, good times.
This isn't really a good thing for Sony. What will happen is that they'll just let the success go to their head and they'll just become arrogant and think that their customers will take whatever slop they feed them
Already happened
Kinda happened already and they're actually suffering right now since they had to lay off like 8% of their entire workforce. I wish Microsoft was doing better so there would be more incentive for Sony to do better. Title is still inaccurate since Nintendo still makes more profit since their costs are lower. Nintendo also doesn't directly compete with Microsoft and Sony anymore since they follow their Blue Ocean strategy.
All you Sony haters are just proof they're the best. Playstation is the best platform to game. All you consumers talking all this cooperate mumbo jumbo is just grasping at straws.
@@theonewhowrotethis5681layoffs are due to overhiring during COVID years buddy
@@WavyJayZpc is objectively the best way to play games. The ps5 is a decent console but the ps4 was better.
2:15 for a moment I thought he was gonna start rapping 😂
The PlayStation is turning 30?! Damn I feel old now….
Yes. 1994/1995.....30 Years
yeah I don't think the ps5 is ever beating the switch
Ps2 best selling console so...
Except switch is on track to beat ps2. So.. @@mojavekight1771
@@mojavekight1771Doesn't matter since we're talking about the PS5, not the PS2.
@@mojavekight1771 By the end of the year that won't be true lol
@@mojavekight1771 Yup, I still got my PS2 , but honestly think it has an advantage with a DVD player. DVD era in its early stages was a perfect time for PS2. They sold units as a DVD player and video game console. If we just stick with it being a home console the number wouldn't be as high.
0:02 The PlayStation has been instrumental in bringing to life iconic video game franchises like Spider-Man, God of War, and Final Fantasy. 2:24 The PlayStation's shift to disc-based gaming with the PlayStation marked a significant turning point in the gaming industry. 5:24 The PlayStation 2 became the best-selling video game console of all time, with over 155 million units sold. 6:03 The PlayStation 3 faced challenges due to its initially high price point and difficulty in development, but bounced back with exclusive games like Uncharted and Killzone. 7:26 The PlayStation 4's launch marked a resurgence for Sony, outselling the Xbox One and focusing on bringing a great gaming experience to users. 9:19 Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard raised concerns about exclusivity in gaming, with Sony negotiating to ensure franchises like Call of Duty remained available on PlayStation platforms. 15:08 Sony has ventured into the non-gaming space by converting its iconic IP into movies and TV shows, aiming to expand its intellectual property within its systems. 16:00 Despite the success of the PlayStation brand, the gaming industry has faced challenges, including job cuts and fundamental changes impacting game creation and gameplay experiences.
I legit feel so sorry for the people who aren’t old enough to remember the DS,gba, GameCube, Xbox, Dreamcast, ps2 days. Gen 6
Dreamcast was epic . I plan on building a collection of the games when I move into a bigger place
So you completely ignored that Nintendo is crushing both Sony and Microsoft this generation, and are experiencing mass layoffs
They got relegated to being a handheld without the big third party games. Who would pass up that Elden ring DLC and GTA6? Which mean they got chinchecked and have been successful elsewhere.
Shut up fanboy
ummmm the whole tech industry is experiencing layoffs lol
@@omarzaifulizan3064 and yet Nintendo isn't. In fact it is actually growing by building new offices in Japan to expand its first party teams with more employees and more advanced tech.
or that the Wii outside the PS3 threefold. Or that the DS and 3DS absolutely demolished the PSP and Vita. What a joke.
Let us not forget that a PS2 was cheaper to own than a DVD player back in the day, so many people bought a PS2 for that reason. Nintendo on the other hand are just a gaming company, they don’t have many devisions such as Sony and Microsoft
Nobody bought a ps2 for dvds. It was just a plus feature.
@@WavyJayZwhen I was a kid that was how people convinced their parents to get a console or their parents got the ps2 regardless of them wanting a GameCube because of the dvd player. If the ps2 wasn’t the cheapest dvd player on the market it wouldn’t be #1 and I still have my ps2.
@@ganymedehedgehog371 idk how old you were in 2000 when the ps2 dropped. It was not cheap, it was 300 for the console. I remember in 2001 my family bought a HD DVD player for less than 200 bucks. Dvd players were expensive in the 90s, they were affordable by the 2000's. It's a huge stretch to claim the ps2 sold so well because of the DVD feature. That literally nonsense.
@@WavyJayZ I was a kid but everyone in school got one because it served the double purpose of a dvd player. If the dvd player had nothing to do with it it would have been a closer match between the ps2 and GameCube. Give a reasonable explanation as to why the ps2 sold as much as it did when gaming has only grown bigger over time. There isn’t any other explanation for the ps2 being such an outlier aside from then being the transition from vhs to dvd. There is no other explanation for the ps2 sales especially compared to future consoles and even it outselling the gba.
@@ganymedehedgehog371 you do realize the ps1 sold over 100 million. Most people that bought a ps1, got the upgrade. It was fully backwards compatible, and the graphics upgrade had people lined up to get it. I remember my older cousins getting it on release, and they gave my little brother their ps1. I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. The DVD player was a good selling point but it was not the main reason at all. The ps2 literally had thousands of games for a reason. The gamecube couldn't compete with the games even though it was a more powerful system. I put alot of hours on the gamecube and the Xbox, but they pale in comparison to the time 8 spent on the two ps2 systems I owned. I didn't even watch a movie until the late 2009 on that thing. By that time I was looking for other modes of entertainment if you catch my drift 😏🤣
From the first Twisted Metal to Gran Tusimo 7... My heart belongs to Sony and Playstation
Twisted Metal anyone?
Use to love this game gotta come back
The real issue here is that this company’s are charging full price for a digital version of a game Someone need to bring that up and talk about it more
The physical disc is very cheap to produce. The cost was always for development.
I mean, prices drop. I bought a full priced digital once and I’ll never do it again. Wait a season or until the holidays, and you’ll normally see a 25-50% sale.
As a person that owned a few video games stores in the early 1990s for around 12 + years it’s great to see that nothing has changed except for the graphics. Which is the best console, which is the best selling console, which produces the best games, which is the best games, etc? One thing that has changed and is very bad for the consumer is going to the subscription model where the customer never owns the content.
PlayStation is notorious for removing digital content and they're one of the biggest pushing for it.
Stupid journalists at it again.
Nothing new you’re right
I’d switch back to xbox in a heartbeat but I don’t feel like paying the price when an average gaming desktop is only three hundred more.
Nintendo has far outsold both consoles combined just in hardware. Not even saying this as a fanboy, this is misleading to investors and is completely wrong in writing. 3 weeks ago you guys posted a video about Sony cutting their sales forecast for the PS5???? PS5 hardware is still sold at a loss, Nintendo’s is not. Nintendo isn’t branched off into other avenues so their EPS is fully focused unlike Sony’s.
Yeah, this is a poorly researched video.
Not in games
The video console wars is a war that little boys concocted. These are companies. They do not care about winning in a sense over another company, they care about profitability and generating revenue from their investments and staying in business. It is not about numbers as well. If Sony could sell a $2000 console but have less people buying the console at the cost of making a console for let's say $50, Sony would choose this route and have less people buying Playstation. Microsoft has trillions and Xbox is just a side project.
PS5 isnt sold at loss. And you are counting a last generation console vs a new one.
You might want to check your facts again regarding this contention that the console is selling at a loss. Just because that was the case in the past does not mean it is the case now.
With a title like this, it really feels like this would've been better suited for when the PS4 was still the hottest selling console in the last generation prior to the Switch's release. Otherwise this whole just ends up feeling like a biased advertisement for PlayStation and Sony even when it's at a time where they've had a lot of scrutiny put on them because of their business decisions in the last few months alone.
The Switch is NOT a home console. It's a handheld. People keep calling it a "hybrid", but it isn't. It's a handheld device that has a dock, like other handheld devices. The Switch Lite which is also counted in the sales totals can't be docked at all. This is like comparing Nintendo DS sales to PS3 sales. They aren't really competing in the same market, and because the Switch isn't powerful enough, their libraries are literally about 90% different. There's a reason that the FTC and CMA trial largely ignored Nintendo as a factor in their decision making. They hadn't even had a Call of Duty on their devices in over 10 years and most current gen AAA titles were skipping the platform altogether. Lastly what business decisions have Sony made in the last few months? 🤔 They laid off 8% of their gaming division (900 people), which everyone else in the tech sector has also done, with most laying off more. MS for example laid off 9% (1,900 people) in their gaming division in January, and laid of 13,000 people from the entire corporation last year, including some from 343 and Bethesda. You can't really lay scrutiny at one corporation for an industry wide issue. They over expanded dramatically during the pandemic, and the tech sector didn't go in the way that many of them believed that it would.
It's very natural that this look like an "biased" advertisement. Playstation is the father of gaming industry (and the mother is Nintendo, of course). PlayStation deserves this acclaims and Sony should get them as well.
No the father is Magnavox and the mother is Magnavox @@jnfunvufb
Okay but like gamers the world over need to pressure Sony into taking a possible resurrection of the PSP a lot more seriously. Imagine a proper competitor to the Switch.
We all remember Atari. There is never a guarantee that a video game brand will stay on top. Nintendo, PlayStation, etc. are only as good as their latest exclusive top selling game. Hardware is secondary.
When CNBC says disks are not gonna go anywhere it means that cloud computing and streaming games going to be the new norm 😂
Cloud gaming is very far from being a reality atm. Most parts of the world don't have the Internet connection for it. I mean just look at Germany,3rd largest economy but their Internet speed is laughable. You can only imagine what Internet connection poorer countries have.
Just a friendly reminder to you gamers. When you buy a game online you dont own it outright. Buy the physical copy. Save yourself problems down the road
**gets day-one patch that fixes critical bugs**
You are so right. Just having subscriptions to any content that you never own is ludicrous and is just a endless source of revenue for companies to get rich.
Been buying digital games for 10 years and literally never had an issue lol
Stop spreading this misinformation: anywhere outside of degeneritistan, buying a digital game means you own it the same way you do for a physical game, that's in every laws, again except maybe in dumbistan
@@noahsmith1187 it only takes a flip of the switch. Or perhaps you break a term of service, they will just ban your account. Also I watched a video yesterday where someone DID have an issue, apparently a recent bug - They then resubmitted licensing and it locked them out of their entire library... There is a whole forum discussing it, just saying.
If you’re owned by a major third party publisher, you’re not an independent studio…. You’re owned by a parent company…..
Recents news doesn't say what you are saying.
yeah it worse losing 10 Billion stock price closing and cancelling game and studios. Deviation the latest fool to get in the sony bed of lies sony pulled funding and the studio just had to close and cancel their game now more jobs gone
Facts
It burns doesn't it? jajaj
it does actually. ps5 is beating both the switch and series X
@@SpectacularView1Only after the switch has sold over 140 million going into its 7th year and still in its 7th year. And sony just lowered their annual sales numbers by 3 million units. With the sales numbers going down switch is still dropping enough sales that they will probably have the biggest selling console of all time by the time we get the next switch. And not to make this any longer, but final fantasy 7 rebirth couldn't even boost sales for the PS5. And that's most likely going to be its biggest exclusive for the rest of the year. They're shooting themselves in the foot with the choices they're making, especially software wise. Nintendo has done nothing but drop software banger after software banger after software banger with each one of them doing franchise record sales. Nintendo is the richest company in japan . Don't forget Sony is in Japan. Nintendo does some weird stuff sometimes and they mess it up every now and then, but they're getting it absolutely right. I don't see anybody stopping them the way they're moving right now.
One thing I noticed about PlayStation guys no matter how much trash and recycled games PlayStation makes their fan base will blindly buy. The ps portal is a great example..
The same thing I wonder about xbots like yourself. How can you be a fan of a brand that hasnt brought out a good game in 15 years....🤡
How many playstation fanboys bought the vita ?
Because their games are great and really fun. And you could say Nintendo games are "recycled" too. Sucks that you have such a negative mindset and are left out of the joy that the vast majority of gamers feel.
@@bigpileofpuke & sega fans complain that sega consoles games from the 90s weren't recycled enough. Pumping out the same popular franchises over & over again = better salea
0:50 "series 10" lol smh
In all fairness, Xbox’s console designation system is idiotic. So, yeah, he gets a pass. 😆
It's a stupid name no matter what.
“Yet the Nintendo Switch is the second best selling console of all time, only behind the PlayStation 2.” Actually, it’s the third. The Nintendo DS has sold 154.02 Million Units, less than a million away from the PlayStation 2, the Nintendo Switch sold 139.36 Million Units.
Videos like this to me usually means a gaming company is going downhill and going away when the history is being recapped.
Playstation is the goat of gaming.
No.
Yes
I'm glad Jim Ryan is retiring. He's so full of nonsense. Reporter: Why were you against the Activision Microsoft deal. Ryan: It was because of Call of Duty. Reporter: Why didn't you sign the Call of Duty deal then in the beginning? Ryan: Don't ask me logical questions!!
Microsoft’s original deal offer to Sony in January 2022 was "all existing Activision console titles on Playstation, including future versions of CoD or any other current Activision franchise on Playstation until 2027." The deal that ultimately ended up being signed was different and concerned only CoD, for the next ten years.
10 year deal is irrelevant now. Microsoft is heading to third party.
Yh but it seems microsoft are putting some games on playstation which is dumb @@Marcus_K
And he gave a logical answer. I know you work at a gas station but try and keep up with the big boys.
I don’t think so. As much as PS is winning in sales, they are still on par or below MS and Nintendo in terms of profit. Even right now, Sony is caught up in a lot of debt and conflict with their practices.
😂...yup 😂
It all started during the SNES since Sony build the audio chip for the SNES, then the SNES CD add-on to try something since Sega had the Sega CD. Nintendo grew nervous with the CD add-on since Sony might use this to try to get into the video game market, so Nintendo did a behind the back deal with Phillips (Sony’s rival) for development of the CD-i which we know how that ended. Sony went to Sega (after the failed partnership with Nintendo)to work together Sega of America and Tom Kalinske agreed, but Hayao Nakayama and Sega of Japan turned the idea down since they thought it was a stupid idea and said that Sony doesn’t know how to make hardware. So Sony decided to go solo and released the PS1 which outsold the N64 and the Saturn giving the middle finger to both Nintendo and Sega and the rest is history
The console will never die
It’s PlayStation, of course it will stay forever. XBOX is desperate at this point.
I love how people are reading the title and immediately start meat-riding Nintendo. Crazy world we live in.....
Where???
Playing on consoles is not the same as it was in the 90's and 2000's. It's more practical to just build a good gaming PC today.
Not really, PC gaming is dying a slow death, handheld gaming is taking over
So... how their table has turned now.
lol ps5 has zero games i want. playstation 3 was the last good sony console and xbox360 was last good xbox console.
@@billybobbob3003and even PS3 was a step down from the mightly PS2 days.
@@skycloud4802 PS2 was definitely Sony's best console.
@@skycloud4802 Yes and ps2 was step down from ps1 alot of ways kinda also.
@@billybobbob3003PS4 is good console stop and ps5 is great but not great enough to compare with ps2
If it weren't for the fact that I'm a gamer on all platforms, I would really believe this title.
Too bad the stock price hasn’t signified this.
Really?
It’s up 88 percent in the past 5 years
@@jayjyaThat's why they made this video. Except they forgot too look at recent data. Like how they haven't made any profit in the passed year.
And sony still have more revenue than Nintendo
@@Tinbeef22 in accounting revenue is not the same a profits. Why is their profits so damn low. When you operating margins surpass how much money your making get ready to see day and date on pc and games on other systems.
Ive never been a big gammer though I do enjoy playing from time to time. Going from a ps3 to a ps5 a few months ago, this will be the Last console I buy. Ive played it maybe 5 times in the last 3 months. The cost to play now days is ridiculous! Its also far to complicated unless your a gamer nerd! Much funner when you put in a disc, wait 30 seconds to load then you play.
You have to be a millionaire to play multiple games these days. You buy a game then are expected to pay 100s to get the full dlc and access to it ffs
ok Boomer.
$120 a year and almost a thousand games available.
it is cheaper than ever if you subscribe to Game Pass or PS Plu, especially you. You have almost the most important games of the PS4 generation there
It's not complicated. It's just like PS3 was - buy a disc or buy from their store. On cost - PS3 consoles were somewhat cheaper than PS5 is, however PS3 games were $60 too. They're cheap now only because PS3 games are old and 2 generations back. Such drama.
lol, they must have needed a good story to boost positive publicity? There's almost NO reason to even own a Playstation unless it's the only thing your friends play on. Consoles will be a thing of the past really soon.
If that was true then they wouldn't sell as good as they do.
lmao beat.... nintendo has more units sold in the world....
Nintendo is not directly competing with Sony and Microsoft
Sony made Nintendo run away from the AAA market. So they won in that sense.
Nintendo has always been a child's audience. Sony and Microsoft's is AAA, adult-themed gaming. TOTALLY different, kinda apples to oranges..
PS5 entering the latter stages of its life cycle
Ps2 best selling console lol
The best seller was PS2, PSP and PS4, should have just release games for them and keep the library at Cloud
Um. OG PlayStation sold way more than PSP….sales numbers prove Sony has hit it with every gen
@@wyo_garage20It's actually PS2, Nintendo Switch, and then PS4
@@wyo_garage20But Switch's are still being produced so it just may dethrone the PS2
@@AdorablePeach23 Switch isn’t a console and never has been. And you’re wrong, Nintendo 3DS is second in total unit sales, but again not a console. For consoles, and consoles only (shocking people can’t understand this), it’s PS2, PS4, PS, Wii, PS3. Switch needs to sell roughly 15mil to overtake 3DS for overall handheld sales.
Personally feel that Nintendo is beating Sony at the "content is king" logo. Although not as powerful as the ps5, the stitch is portable, it has decent, presentable graphics, and it has a wider range of games that appeal to a wider range of demographics from kids to adults. Playstation feels like it is suffering the problem that the film industry suffers prioritizing high-quality visual photo-real graphics over substance (personally feel that photo-real games look ugly). Also rarley hear kids wanting a ps5 over a switch.
Sony has better games . The PS5 plays all 3,454 Ps4 games titles that have been released .
This is objectively not true
CNBC doing fluff pieces now that playstation news as been overwhelmingly negative over the past few months? If you are a sucker and investing in a company with poor foresight then enjoy watching your money burn with Sony. P.S. Good job spending 3 billion on bungie. Real big brains out there on the board at playstation.
Micro$oft bought Activision
9:56 The answer is "Jim Flying Lying Ryan". It's how his legacy will be remembered. 🎶Exposed, where are your parents, you're exposed!🎵🎶
The landscape changes, nothing stays on top forever especially when it comes to technology and profitability. Who knows if video gaming still needs consoles a decade from now..
Don’t get me wrong I love my PS5, but it is nowhere near close to beating Nintendo and the Switch 😂
You must be joking. In what world the switch is better than a PS5? I love nintendo but they are not on the same league here.
@M.sami12 I think they meant in sales, since Switch is what? Top 3 best selling console? And it still has a very good chance to possibly beat the PS2
Nintendo is reluctant to behave in the manner of being cheap and affordable for their initial launch.
@@M.sami12 because when you play switch you feel you play nintendo game on ps5 you ask it is pc game or playstation game ?
He’s referring to sales. Switch has one of largest install bases in history at 141 million as of end Feb 2024. And unlike the PS2 and DS, the Switch install base is still growing. Considering Nintendo won’t launch a next-gen console until March 2025 at the earliest, that will likely mean that Switch will be sitting at around 151-152 million units by next year. That’s not very far from the PS2 record.
Interesting they talk about a Japanese company but yet don't talk to any of the Japanese employees The currency CEO is Japanese
For political correctness, dude. Plus, most western gamers still don't know that Sony PlayStation is Japanese. They think Sony PlayStation is American. Sony wants to keep it that way. Acting like a chameleon is their strategy. Their current CEO is a Japanese, yes, but not for long, they would probably hire a western one in the near future to hide their Japanese image from the western public, so that Americans keep buying their products. That's why Sony also keeps producing western movies, not Japanese ones. Because Sony wants to always secure America as their cash cow. Remember that Sony got effortless 800 million bucks from COD alone. That amount of money was generated by mostly American gamers, not Japanese gamers. COD is made in America, owned by an American company, bought by American gamers, generated by American gamers' support, but that 800 million bucks went to Japan through Sony PlayStation. Ironic, right?
They sure can. They'll just keep paying out companies to release on their console first and they'll continue lying about the performance of their consoles so people will buy them.
Stop crying my guy
Boomer journalists understand video game basics challenge (impossible)
Wow the last five or so minutes reads like an actual press release.
The market is set. Create a underpowered tablet, low res screen and no media apps. Make sure the console does 15fps through 30 fps, with some off chance 60fps. Make color full games like princess peach and you win. No one wants a powerhouse with beautiful graphics, and 4k support with all the media apps. No one wants haptic feedback or adaptive triggers. People want small cramped joycons with drift. That's how to win. Nintendo is the winner 🏆
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😅😂😂😂 sooo true man I cant 💀
This is a god tier comment 😂 just careful the boot lickers won't like that stain on thier boot they tryna lick
they are just winning because they were pumping many new and old low budget exclusive games and because wii U was a massive failure so a fresh comeback is easier to be done if they do something "right" and they did, switch was ok. Now is too old, gamewise they just make the same jump and run stuff with just different heros.. one day the customers will get bored of the same games or knock off titles. PS 5 is a solid device but it feels somehow abandoned like the series X also does. This console generation is in crysis due to the high development cost(software). They should just stop the exclusivity stuff if they want to bring next gen experiences and graphics, giving PC gamers also a chance ( which they already do and is awesome)
@@iraklistselegidis5943 meh if a person is absolutely dieing, in agony to play some princess 👸 peach just play it on any device u own. Its available free on every single device
I doubt this.
Xbox exclusives are slowly becoming obsolete. You will eventually no longer need an Xbox
Xbox has to compete with PC gamer and Xbox will lose this competition because what PC can easily do Xbox does. On the other hand, PlayStation's main competitor is always a Nintendo, the champion of gaming, so gaming experience itself is the controller. Luckily, Sony owns tons of IP and technology available to offer new experiences that Nintendo cannot.
All these gaming companies have huge amounts of unused IP unfortunately @@jnfunvufb
@@monkeyboykc3190 bro , people buy xbox and ps just because pcs are hella expensive , xbox games are all on pc , playstation has exclusives but many are coming for pc plus everyone is saying they dont have many exclusives on ps5 which is weird since sony losed a lot of cash while selling the ps5 just to sell games , and switch can literally be emulated on pc , i wouldn't buy consoles if i were you pcs are upgradable buy once play for years , ps5 has a serious lack of games tho... , for me the future is handheld pcs they are just getting better and better , too bad you cant upgrade them (other than adding an ssd) , so yeah dont buy consoles dont be a fanboy.
Sony(Ken Kutaragi) gave game creators the hardware to make their dreams come true, but its the Developers who helped make PlayStation a household name.
Well duh. They go hand in hand. Thanks captain obvious
Steve Ballmer "developers developers developers developers..." Legendary quote
They changed the title and still got it wrong. Maybe try a 3rd time?
Thought I remembered it wrong when I added this to my Watchlist thinking this is going to be a funny listen for later
They are not beating Nintendo at all.
Sony revenue is from multiple places while nintendo is just games and merch, so yes sony is winning in revenue. Sony sells: subcribtions, accessory, ps store cut, hardware, tvs, cameras, audio equipment, a monopoly of “legal” anime via crunchyroll, games, dvds and movies studio. And merch
They beat Nintendo in various areas, including revenues. Also, we are only talking about PS here because if we talk about Sony as a whole they are a much much larger company than Nintendo.
They did in home consoles.
Nintendo sells more consoles than Sony, and makes 3x the profit. If that’s not beating, i don’t know what is.
@alexandrecl4331 Well, the switch is a last gen machine, meaning it should be competing with the ps4 and Xbox one. And sure it beats the ps4 with 117mill units sold vs. The switch 139mill, but the ps5 came out and since sold 55mill and if you combine that it beats the switch.
I still have the PS2 with me. Loads of memories with my younger brother and friends, lot of friendly banter and rivalries. What an age it was. The 8Mb memory card, that was mega at that time and now it is just pale in comparison. Hoping to own a PS5 soon
Nintendo Switch is about 15 million away from overtaking the PS2 as the best selling console of all time, so the answer to your question is "most likely no, it won't remain the top-selling game console." PlayStation is going down a path of fewer first party releases (none in 2024), more focus on multiplayer live services (despite nobody still coming close to the behemoth that is Fortnite), removing digital purchases and ignoring legacy content. Video games are so expensive to produce now, and like Hollywood movies, the higher production costs aren't resulting in higher revenue number. Thus, more video games are taking big loses, resulting in lower profits and more layoffs. While Nintendo has many flaws, they have found a formula with using older tech, which lower the costs of game production. This results in allowing them to release more first party exclusives per year, and needing less revenue from these exclusives to make a profit. The dirty little secret is while Sony's first party titles are mostly fantastic, it's still the Call of Dutys and Maddens that rack up the dough when it comes to game sales.
Probably the reason they delayed the switch 2 til next year so they can get that title in the history books. They are already so close might as well go for it and their forecast for 2024 is 15.5million Switches sold. So it looks like they are actually gunning for it.
Tech isn't the reason for the high cost of game development, that problem is caused by the amount of money wasted on crew bloat and marketing. If not for those 2 flaws, games would be made for cheap and become more profitable for either First Party side.
@benkizer9509 Call of duty and GTA games were the topping selling games in the USA every year since 2008-09 with the exception of last year when Hogwarts legacy came out
Oh yeah? Their 6% profit margin and recent 10% drop in stock price this month says otherwise
Sony is more than Playstation if you dindt know yet. The main reason for the decline is their image sensors division, but talk about PS make more engagement;
@@GaMartins so the cancelation of games, missing forecast and closures of studios are good?
@@olskid9546yes. Layoffs and cancellation reduces costs and drives stocks higher.
@@olskid9546 The console still sold extremely well. Which console sold more than 21 million units in one year?
@@erenjager6715 it did, but when investors expect 25m it is seen as a failure. Simple as.
There are humans out there that become angry from the thought of nintendo game running call of duty or grandtheft auto. They want to play Luigi mansion 3ds again
Idk if the Nintendo hardware can handle those types of graphics
unfortunately the potatoes that nintendo is pumping out can't handle games with decent graphics
While the switch is not on the level of a PS5. It's definitely not on the same level as a cellphone. Lol
PS1 Era was the best. So many different types of games.
I'm Team Playstation and I know this title is a lie
I don't think you have good reading comprehension. In the grand scale of gaming, with every medium each company has combined, playstation blows nintendo and Microsoft out the water.
So am I, but it can't be denied that the Switch is still the highest-selling console
Have you done any research. It’s the worst time of Sony’s playstation yet. It was not able to achieve its projected sales, no new triple a titles till 2025.
". It was not able to achieve its projected sales"
...No, the PS3 was the worst time for PS ever. This doesn't even come close to that; as much as PS is facing headwinds, they're also massively benefiting from their entrenched status as the 3rd Party default platform.
They could lower there price for ps5..
At least at that time, they were able to bounce back within the next couple years by making meaningful changes to the PS3 by reducing the prices and introducing far more exclusives that made the PS3 worth buying. Stuff that Sony's just not doing at all with the PS5. @@arglebargle5531
You haven’t done any research. Sony isn’t putting out any new exclusives, but they certainly will have new games releasing on their platform like Stealer Blade, a new IP, in April.
dude really live in future he alreeady got "Xbox Series 10" that thing must have RTX 6070TI in that thing.
Lol I don't think they beat Nintendo at all.
they make more than 10 billion more a year than Nintendo. Consoles sold are pretty equal, Nintendo makes more profit, Sony makes more money. It's a healthy rivalry, but Nintendo is not good at getting the most out of their IP.
In what world is Sony "beating" Nintendo? Nintendo makes more money than PS and Xbox combined in take home profits. That being said they aren't even winning right now. They are layoff\closing studios because they aren't making enough money. They just closed one today. They have no first party exclusives for this year and are completely reliant on 3rd party timed exclusives. Which is funny cause that's the problem xbox had during the xbox one gen and got dragged for. I try to reframe from pointing to bias but its crazy you would make this and acknowledge they are on a down slope at the same time. 10 bn off Sony stock price cause of gaming issues isn't a "headwind". They got some big problems they need to sort out over there.
What studio they closed today? The one they dont even own?
They have first party exclusives. Actually they just dropped the biggest of the year. Stellar blade soon, rise of the ronin, concord. And sony didn’t close a studio, the studio wasn’t owned by Sony, just a partnership
London Studio was closed on February 29th as part of restructuring. Deviation Games (now owned by Sony, as a joint project between the companies) is being shuttered as of today.
@@GaMartins yep the one their contract was 100% funding. Pulled funds=closure.
@@Julian_14 they don't own arrow head but I'll give you helldivers. Concord isn't launching this year per Sony and stellar blade is made by a Chinese studio, it's a 2nd party. PlayStation studios (1st party) is releasing nothing this year per Sony. Don't shoot the messenger.
Some people are willing to die of cancer for a chance to play mario
CNBC editing the title like no one would notice..
What did it originally say?
@@Edsavage404something about Sony outselling MS and Nintendo.
@@IraJavier Well they are in term of revenue not console numbers. I think that what they meant. After all sony is the biggest company in the world.
@@24-gt5kp Biggest gaming company is Tencent. Biggest company is Microsoft.
Damn I am old , I remember being a young kid maybe four or five playing the 1 , then gta 3 with the ps2 , then the 3 , then 4 , now the 5.
They really haven't "beat" anyone though. Nintendo's going on 8 years with the Switch, and it's still outselling the PS5 many months (especially in Japan), while Microsoft's gaming revenue is significantly increasing due to Game Pass & PC support. Gamers like me tend to focus too much on console sales, but there's a reason Sony's reporting constant decreases in revenue & slimmer profit margins despite moving plenty of consoles. The formula of selling hardware at a loss & making up for it with software sales is becoming more & more difficult as game development has become drastically more expensive & time consuming. Just this generation alone, Sony has had to make moves likes increasing hardware prices 2 years *AFTER* launch (an unprecedented move), increasing game prices to $70, charging upgrade fees for PS5 versions of PS4 games, increasing prices of BASIC online to $80, going back on their pre-PS5 comments about "we believe in console generations" and not supporting cross-gen like Microsoft had announced (as nearly every PS5 "exclusive" was also released on PS4 up until last year), releasing games on PC, changing PS+ to a better compete with Game Pass, etc. etc. etc. This is a trend that's hit basically everyone but Nintendo, as they don't rely on cutting edge tech & prefer to sell cost-efficient hardware at a profit from day 1. They're also extremely protective of their IPs (sometimes to a detrimental extent that hurts their own fanbase), and lock everything down to their own systems. Nintendo also sits on a mountain of cash in the bank, no debt, and were recently named Japan's richest company. As a guy with a Mario profile pic, I probalby sound like a Nintendo fanboy. In reality, I'm a PC-only guy who avoids playing on Switch unless I absolutely have to. I want Sony, Nintendo & Microsoft to all succeed in their own unique ways. Game Pass is fantastic, Sony makes some extremely compelling narrative-driven games, and Nintendo has so many IPs they don't even know what do with (*cough* F-Zero *cough*). To say Sony "beat" anyone is just ignorance to the state of the industry though. In pure unit sales, they definitely beat Xbox, but that's obviously not Microsoft's M.O. anymore. Though if you want to go by that metric, Sony still isn't the leader, so it's a moot point.
Lmao if Microsoft were making money like you say they are then why they put 5 exclusives on Sony which four of them you can get on the switch
@ivanbarroso865 That's quite possibly the dumbest "gacha" I've ever heard... "If McDonald's makes so much money, who do they keep opening new locations?!" "If Billionaires are so rich, why do they keep trying to make more money?!" Or if you still don't get it, let's stick with video games. "If Persona 5 was the best selling Atlus game on Playstation, why did it come to Xbox, Switch & PC?!" "If Pokémon made so much money on Nintendo consoles, why'd they start making phone games?" You're basically asking "why do successful businesses keep trying to make MORE money?" Shouldn't they be happy with the money they have? 😂
@@corey2232 exclusivity matters what’s the point of owning an Xbox if I can get anywhere else lol which implies Xbox will be the next Sega again you thinking Nintendo can beat Sony is very laughable and delusional Nintendo doesn’t have triple A games like final fantasy 7 rebirth or even a game like Baldurs Gate 3 lol
@ivanbarroso865 I don't care if you own an Xbox or not. I'm not a console warrior, nor do I care what plastic box yall want to fanboy for. Unit sales is what us gamers gloat about, not what the shareholders & execs care about. Profit & profit margin matter, hence why MS & Sony are laying off people left & right with the rest of the industry. You also act like Sony isn't putting their games on PC... So why get a PS5? "The games come out later though!" And? You're acting like Sea of Thieves (5+ years later), Pentiment & Hi-Fi Rush (1.5 years later) coming to Nintendo/Sony is sooooo earth shattering. These are the same games that weren't worth your time for all these years, but now they're suddenly huge gets for Playstation? Watch, in 5 years if Playstation gets Starfield, fanboys will be dancing around acting like it's such a big deal, even though this whole time yall been saying it sucks. When Halo, Forza, Fable, Indiana Jones, Starfield, Hellblade 2, Gears, etc. come to Playstation or Switch 2 day 1, then you can pretend Xbox has nothing. Microsoft's leaked Financials show they made just as much revenue from gaming as they do Windows... and that was BEFORE the ABK acquisition. Then again, I have zero Xbox consoles. I will take PC all day every day. It's just annoying to see Sony fans act like 1 less console existing would somehow be a good thing 🙄
Since you have been able to buy the PS5 without any problems, it has been leading global sales figures every time. The PS5 has no longer been sold at a loss since the summer of 2021. Profits fell because Sony paid off Bungie. Microsoft has high fixed costs because they bought 2 publishers. And Sony still makes more revenue. You also forget about the economic problems. Inflation rose enormously, especially in Europe. That's why Sony couldn't sell its 25 million consoles because Europe was weak.
It depends on technology evolution.
I was a huge Final Fantasy fan so PlayStation was always my favorite console. Not only did the PS2 have the best games, and a DVD player, I could still play original PS1 games on it too. That was amazing back then.
Yes, the "secret sauce" of the console was key to its success. PS1 had insane amounts of data storage with it's CD, the PS2 increased that 5 fold and gave access to play DVDs as well. The PS3 followed the same recipe and gave BluRay access and over 10 times the data again. The PS4 was garbage and I never owned one. There was no "secret sauce". The PS5 is beyond stupid, they spent half the consoles worth on a completely unnecessary SSD that provides zero benifits over even a SATA SSD, so again, no "secret sauce" and again I don't buy the console. The PS3 was a bit expensive at launch, but it was the best console Sony made, and it's been a downhill snowball ever since. And how funny is it to see how big the gaming industry is, all the while all you hear is how game Devs have it so hard these days because the price to produce a decent game is so expensive, at the same time creating a game has never been easier, just like how anybody can be a broadcaster now thanks to tech ology like KZhead, anyone can developed a AAA game in their bedroom thanks to Unreal Engine etc. The problem is there is no originality anymore, everyone is a sellout, no one wants to work for anything, and most of all, people have no shame!!
how? getting cnbc to advertise
yeah feel pretty desperate to me, just release good exclusive like there are no others tricks
@@horikita3464 Sony is making multiple great exclusives
@@millirabbit4331Let's hear them
@@millirabbit4331, where? We don't see them.
I’m looking forward to seeing where the PlayStation goes from the 5. I have a PS5, but I rarely go to it, since the majority of the PS5 games have been subpar. I go for my PS4.
If Xbox continues to be a weak competitor, I’m afraid Sony is not gonna get much better than they are right now. I know for a fact that they’re gonna exploit their customers as much as they’re able to. Have you seen their refund policy? If you buy a game digitally, and just even start the download, you are no longer able to refund it. To make it worse, when you buy a game, it automatically starts downloading. This is terrible and completely anti consumer. If you or someone at your house ever accidentally purchase a game from their digital store, you will never get a refund!
@@EthicalAllele Dang, the digital downloads are rough. I’m a physical media girl, so I didn’t know.
@@GamerHomegirl Physical is definitely the best! I would still encourage you to set up some type of protection on your systems. You can make the psn store require a password before purchase or set it to not remember your credit card details. My friend had a party at his house, and some bonehead bought the last of us 2 deluxe edition from my friend's account for $70 >:(
@@EthicalAlleleDang ... heard!
PS4 games are playable on PS5 and many at 60fps so your statement doesn't make a lot of sense.