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regalterry said:
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I said it as a joke when I said every Division of Sony sees the others making retarded decisions and saying "Hold my Beer", but goddamn it's really not a joke with Playstation.

I have to wonder just how much they're cooking the books at this point, and just how fucked they'd be if an investor actually called them on any of this.
 
Leaf Wage Slave Jr said:
I said it as a joke when I said every Division of Sony sees the others making retarded decisions and saying "Hold my Beer", but goddamn it's really not a joke with Playstation.

I have to wonder just how much they're cooking the books at this point, and just how fucked they'd be if an investor actually called them on any of this.
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Nothing will change as long as consumers keep consooming. Which branch is even making these decisions: the Americans or the Japanese division?
 
winterfag said:
That sounds like the amount of space their bloated OS takes up, makes me wonder if it's actually 1gb storage but they're just covering their ass so consumers can't complain about the difference between advertised and actual available space
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Yeah, "825GB" is an oddly specific number that also happens not to be a power of two or even a conveniently divisible number for an SSD manufacturer. I don't think I've ever seen an SSD with that specific capacity or close to it. It wouldn't really make sense to manufacture one of that odd size.
 
moocow said:
Yeah, "825GB" is an oddly specific number that also happens not to be a power of two or even a conveniently divisible number for an SSD manufacturer. I don't think I've ever seen an SSD with that specific capacity or close to it. It wouldn't really make sense to manufacture one of that odd size.
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the lower end ssds do it which props to them for being slightly more honest
 
Fcret said:
It's actually the fastest growing segment right now. In Japan, it doubled like every two years or some shit and has eclipsed every console except the Switch.

And in the US, it's overwhelmingly popular among the under-35 set. Older millennials are more console-centric but younger millennials and zoomers have largely jumped ship to PC (and if they do own a console, it's a Switch).
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The "hardcore" gaming audience is definitely moving to PC and/or handhelds. The core gaming audience and casuals are on mobile devices; One can look at the massive success of gacha games, mobile editions of kids games like Minecraft/Roblox (80% of Roblox's 110 mil+ daily users play on mobile), etc. to see that. We're at a watershed moment for the console market: Xbox hedged their bets on Game Pass, Nintendo went the route of the handheld, and Sony is keeping to the status quo—we'll see how that fares as the newer generations age.

Two Dollars said:
That would require Sony to actually make their own games instead of living off the 30% commission they get from everyone else’s.
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They have made some first party titles, it's just that they've all just ended up being like pic related
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Jarch6 said:
Sony is keeping to the status quo
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They're not though, that's the issue. Cross gen, high prices, focus on Gaas and multiplayer slop and killing off exclusivity is far from the status quo.

Exclusive games for new hardware is the way it should be done. Sony are Microsoft-lite nowadays.
 
regalterry said:
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Didn't they also just put out an update which underclocked the ps5 (likely due to worries with the liquid metal heat transfer element leaking with repeated exposure to high temperatures), thus making it weaker? So, the system gets weaker, gets less storage (as file sizes bloat even more) and the price goes up. What a fucking generation.
 
winterfag said:
That sounds like the amount of space their bloated OS takes up, makes me wonder if it's actually 1gb storage but they're just covering their ass so consumers can't complain about the difference between advertised and actual available space
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That's actually it. In Europe memory storage has to be labeled with the real amount available to the user and not what the manufacturer claims. A 1TB drive is 960GB in practical terms and it has to be labeled as such.

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Taking this into account the whole 825GB number must be the EU forcing Sony to list the real amount of storage available to the end user.

That aside, Europe in particular is going to be one of the traditional Sony markets were console gaming is going to collapse because these things have become prohibitively expensive compared to the average salary in many EU countries. The price of a PS5, plus a new game and PSN subscriptions could amount from 1/4 to 1/2 of your paycheck depending where you live. For the budget minded, console gaming has become the least viable option.
 
Vyse Inglebard said:
the downfall of Sony has stopped being hilarious, it's just sad now.
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I respectfully disagree, I’ve been waiting for this since the PS3.
Jarch6 said:
We're at a watershed moment for the console market: Xbox hedged their bets on Game Pass, Nintendo went the route of the handheld, and Sony is keeping to the status quo—we'll see how that fares as the newer generations age.
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Nintendo is closest to the status quo, the only major difference is that they’re making games for one device instead of two.
 
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