It seems like consoles are in a death spiral of price increases and lower sales.
I’m in a good spot financially and can afford new games and consoles on release date if I choose to. However I generally wait a few years after their release.
I haven’t bought a new release game or console for myself in over a decade and I’ve only bought one or two titles at full price for my kids in the last three years.
It just doesn’t seem worth it.
people are only interested in playing on thier phones, or PAD at this point. people who have a pc might just stick with pc games.
Thank you! I am one of the same with you, I could buy, but I choose to wait. Everyone deserves e better prices and I think everyone should wait to buy their games. Companies get greedy fast
I am in a similar boat. I’ve usually bought consoles a few years in when prices were lower. But since they’re higher, I’m just sticking with PS4 and playing through that backlog
Same. Been just playing random indie games that I find on sale. Way more fun. The only game I’m even eyeballing is baldurs gate which I’ll play one day so I’m in no rush.
Yeah exactly. New games are often buggy and I just can’t justify the cost. If they’re interesting, I put em on my steam wishlist and get them when they’re on offer.
Don’t most people who want one already have one?
And they’re really old now.
And hardly any new games have been released for it.
If MS wasn’t so cack-handed they’d be selling hardly any.
Yup. And if they don’t, it’s cause they can’t afford it, so a price increase certainly isn’t going to help things
Sony: “I can’t hear you over the sound of me shooting myself in the foot.”
Well it has what, 6 exclusive games?
I wanted to make a joke about foamstars, but it’s also available for the ps4.
Instead, here’s the wikipedia article with all 23 present and future ps5 exclusive games.
23 fucking games. I’m pretty sure the PS1, 2, 3, AND 4 had that many within a year of their releases. The fuck are you doing sony?
Wait when did people start demanding exclusives instead of complaining about them
Less so in favor of exclusives and moreso baffled by how barren the PS5 is for them since it’s such a major driver of console sells. Especially given how many indie and AA studios would probably be willing to give Sony exclusive rights if they chucked the budget of failed projects like hero shooter whatsyamacallit with the botch retro scifi aesthetic.
If you’re trying to sell a game console, what can that console offer except exclusives? It’s more a comment at how bad at business these giant cororations are than a complaint.
Yeah they are so weird about supporting their stuff. Speaking as a former PS VR owner…
And don’t get me started about the very few games that really take advantage of the PS5 hardware.
You can use it on PC! :D
I’m sure that there’s some rule of economics that says once most consumers who would buy something have bought it, sales will drop.
For AI that no one asked for and at best seems to be used to make comical videos of unphysical unrealistic situations that never happened.
This is actually worse than the headline because the sales collapsed over Christmas.
Cause everyone is broke and gas prices keep rising making everything in our lives more expensive.
And the console is like 8 years old, so anyone who wants one already has one.
its less than 6 years old, but 5+years is a long time to not produce any GOOD GAMES.
excluding those 2 things, the high price of the console and games itself isnt exactly a worthy thing to buy. if the games are crappy too.
I’m happy with my linux machine. Consoles would have to be a lot cheaper to be tempting. Or I’d have to make a lot more money.
Yep.
I can’t imagine ever buying another console again.
Have a steam deck and set up my budget Linux machine yesterday.
Got so many PS2 and PS3 games I can’t play anymore on a single device. Never going to have that problem again.
Well at least PlayStation Studio games will also be coming to PC to help sales numbers…
: /
Not surprised, cost of living is way up and it’s been on the market for half a decade now
I know it’s true, but it just doesn’t feel right. I even worked with PS5s for 4 years and it still doesn’t seem right
I still remember driving home with my damn PS4 to play the new God of War like it was yesterday. This time business needs to slow tf down.
That’s the neat part. It doesn’t slow down, on the contrary.
besides the HCOL, producing slop games as an AAA isnt exactly attracting old or new customers.
Companies would be foolish to release new consoles any time in the next 3 to 5 years. None of this is going away anytime soon.
Right, but the fact that this is obvious means that anyone who DOES release a console in this time period is going to be able to capture a lot of market share since they have little to no competition.
only if its affordable though.
It’s still fucking ridiculous that billionaire literally just bought the world’s computing supply for a decade to build something no one wants and no one even knows how to make profitable…
It’s getting to the point where it only makes sense if they don’t want us to have computers anymore.
They’ve deluded themselves into thinking they can achieve full ai and take over the world. These tech billionaires got their money young and never grew up because of it
Upside is that it means they’ll go full throttle until they smash into the economic equivalent of a pilon barrier. Maybe we’ll get lucky and see some of them kill themselves a la people jumping to their deaths at wallstreet when the great depression set in.
Look a man can dream, and I dream of death and bloodshed.
They absolutely don’t want you to have computers anymore.
They all want us to go to game streaming.
Not just games; everything. They want everything in the cloud, and remember, the cloud is just someone else’s computer. They want to own it all, and rent it to you by the hour, and then sell all the data they gather from you as well.
Totally agree. They just want to control everything. “You will own nothing and be happy”.
It’s not going to go away….ever. They’ve decided to control every thing and never let go this time.
they are hoping enough people buy into thier SLOP machines, so it woudnt matter.
They must have seen that study that says Xbox users are better at sex.
Lol
Described everything as clearly as possible.
Please redo the meme, my editor sucks.
