Bro if that shit failed to perform then it's on them for failing to manufacture enough. The demand was there. And it out performed the Xbox whateverthefucknow.
Wasn't the reason they couldn't produce more because of the semiconductor shortage?
Partly, but scalpers buying up what inventory there was for reselling was absolutely rampant as well
Yeah, but then they still sold the unit. How would that hurt their sales numbers?
it put me off buying one. I’m probably not the only one.
Correct
Bitch, you couldn't get one for a year cause of how quickly they were flying off the shelves. The fuck you mean it didn't sell well?
Well maybe now they aren't flying off shelves anymore ;)
Sales are slowing down because people are expecting a PS5 Pro.
some folks gave up and ended up with an Xbox or PC. I helped a few friends build a gaming rig and get onto Steam after they got fed up getting sniped by bots on friggin best buy lol
Well...I mean...that was mainly because of the lack of stock... well and scalpers didn't help.
Like there was giveaways to get the opportunity to buy them... yeah sure they sold plenty but some people had to wait a long time to be able to get one and it wasn't because people went crazy buying them alone.
But yes it sold well with that I agree. That said nobody said it didn't sell well here so not sure where your comments comes from.
In the beginning of IGN'S post, it clearly says "after sales failed to meet expectations", which just means it didn't sell well.
Technically PC is a failed platform as it failed to meet my 2 quadrillion sales to date. It will never get a PC2.
The only non-failed platform is Java, which is used by 3 billion devices.
Does the ps5 even have games yet?
Yeh 2 or 3 but normal people can't afford them due to the price of fucking everything going up a lot.
In seriousness I like how the ps5 feels to play but due to slow releases unless it's the last of us re re re master master deluxe lack of time or just not having a free 70 quid that month I buy 1 or 2 games a year.
Multiplayer games are not my thing.
I know what you mean, I'm more into division games than multipliers.
Lots! Lots of exclusive games, though?
Armored Core and Rachet and Clank.
The only reasons we have a PS5 in this house.
Both of those games are on PC
I've armoured core on pc. My pc isn't even high spec and I can play 60fps at 1440.
That game is so well optimized
I would‘ve got one but after Sony fucked their own IP and me having to deal with their customer „support“ I‘m sticking to PC.
They are still releasing games for PS4... it will be fine.
My wife and I just bought ours last November. We aren't getting anything else anytime soon, so good luck on selling more of the next gen.
Same here. It's new to us and a couple months old, and it doesn't exactly have a huge selection of PS5 optimized games suggestive of a mature platform. This wasn't just for finances but we didn't want to deal with the supply issues in the beginning.
Our console budget is spent for a good long time. And if they do jump to the next console quickly without properly investing in games for this one, that will undermine my trust in their future consoles.
I'm not the target demographic obviously but I used to have a PS2 and I was loosely following news, thinking of getting a PS5 during Covid but couldn't find one. Then I just stopped thinking about it until right now.
I bet there were a lot of people like me. Sales could have been much higher.
I just want ONE GAME, I DON'T KNOW WHY
I BOUGHT A PS5 WITH NO GAMES TO BUY
WITH THAT IN MIND, I’M RESIGNED TO REBUY GTA 5
THEN I GOT HIGH
NOW I'M COMPILING A LINUX KERNEL, AND I KNOW WHY
Still lasted longer than the vita
Is this like "PS5 isn't doing well, you should say your goodbyes while you can", or "latter comes after earlier" and can mean anything?
Half way between. They want to beat Nintendo to the next hardware release, but they won’t. So probably two more years till the new stuff comes out, but 4 or 5 till it stops getting support and new releases.
“Latter stage of its life cycle” basically means anything past the halfway point, and it’s already been out for like 4 years.
Considering how long it has taken for PS4 games to stop being published and for PS5 games to really get going, it’ll be a relevant console for several more years at least.
It’s not like it falls apart the second the PS6 is announced. I don’t like the thought of an accelerated console lifecycle either but this is such a vague statement a LOT of these reactions seems a little extreme for now.
I'm over here still playing on my PS3.
When I got married I inherited the first three generations. We put up some little shelves ordered by generation and all five of them still get played. PS3 included. It released with some awesome games.
Meanwhile the PS4 hasn't even reached the former stage of it's life cycle.
C-suite should have chatted with their own people in manufacturing, I reckon
Maybe if you actually stocked the fucking console in a store, people might have bought one
Loving my PS4 Pro 😙👌
I bought a PS5 so I could play PS4 games without having a jet engine in my living room and it's absolutely fantastic for that. Also Demon's Souls was very pretty and faithful to the original, very fun to get the platinum. Returnal was ok too.
All about money. Instead of making good, solid, real games that don't take up 999 wtfabytes in textures and other graphical bling with other gimmicky crap even further bloating it, we get style over substance crap that gives these rich-ass console makers more and more excuses to crank out yet another iteration of their "NEW! 0.00001% BETTER THAN THE PREVIOUS GENERATION!" dead-ass consoles that should have died long ago when PC gaming took over -- not because PC graphics are better, but because PCs can do more and do EVERYTHING better.
Gaming is in a sad state right now and people don't even realize it. I honestly think if people would force themselves to see what old (80s and very early 90s) gaming offers and understand the difference in good games and style over substance trash, they'd understand how much of a clusterfuck modern gaming is. Sure, there's a small handful of good titles floating around these days, but nowhere near the amount and quality of gaming in, say, the NES days where there are more high quality games on that single console than there has been on every console in the last 15 or so years.
And I know modern gamers are going to cry about this post. Too bad. Has to be said.
Gaming is in a sad state right now and people don’t even realize it.
I haven't noticed it because I'm watching the AAA gaming industry from afar instead of participating. BotW is about the only game from a major developer that I've given a shit about in the last 10 years, and only that because I'm a sucker for Zelda.
We're in a golden age of indie titles, and they deserve your money a lot more than the Ubisofts and Activisions of the world.
What said it all really was that Shaun Layden, literally a day 1 PlayStation employee who climbed up to head of Worldwide Studios fuckin dipped before the PS5 and ever since, he's been warning about the absurd costs of AAA development.
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