This graph has been trotted out on that faggot pro-sony site for the last two years, as an example of why the PS5 is doing so well. However, it's very, very dodgy number counting.
Operating income for the PS5 includes sales and PSN figures from the PS4 and PC and coutns them as PS5.
Any MTX purchased on PS4, all PSN+ subscriptions and entertainment purchased on a PS4 is calculated as a PS5 sale. Same with remakes and remasters.
As you can see in the bottom right-hand segment, the first two years of the PS5 life were highly successful, no doubt about it. Following that, once the launch exclusives dried up, the money takes a big hit. The third year Operating income is 2/3rds what it was the previous year and in the following years it never matches or exceeds the first two.
This is backwards to every other generation (you can see the evidence on this graph, though Sega, Nintendo and MS follow similar patterns), where the profit to start with is low, due to losses incurred by R+D of the console, followed by years of high profitability as more hardware and more software - in the forms of exclusives, are sold on the platform.
TL;DR - The Sony shills are banding this around as proof that the PS5 is doing great, but it's pure cope. The numbers are rigged, the drop off in income is apparent and should be ringing alarm bells.
Don't mistake this for me being bitter and hating Sony, it isn't. I just hate fucking sycophants who argue against logic and believe in the lies that their favourite [insert product] manufacturer tells them.
