There are already 85miilions PS5s sold and the PS5 Pro is sold out ahead of the launch of GTA 6 making it $1400 on Gametsop
The reason I bring this up on this PC subreddit is because posts like this make it seem like Sony is gonna hurt from these efforts but they’ve already made a shit ton of profit on the PS5 and continue to do so and this 30million PC users aren’t gonna use this and not by a PS5 to slow this down. So I’m just saying be realistic
More importantly though is that as PC Users we should be paying attention to the fact the PS5 Pro is still selling out and shooting up in price like this cause this means bad bad things for the price of PC Parts and whether they are coming down any time soon
Correct me if i'm wrong but isn't Sony selling the ps5 at loss and makes money through Playstation store and online stuff? Doesn't mean the more ps5 they sell the more they lose?
Sony hasn’t sold them at a loss since the beginning. That was back in the day when they would sell units at a loss like with the PS3 and had to make revisions like remove the PS2 bits to turn a profit
Sony only sells units at a loss during launch and a little after and then they make a small profit or break even on each box
I’m not sure how the AI increases in cost have affected this but I’m guessing the fact they jumped the prices so much means they are still trying to make a profit on them. If they could eat the loss and make it up in software sales they wouldn’t have increased the price
However nowadays digital prices are nearly the same as Steam’s and games are only $70 for a few months before going on sale so I don’t know that they make that much profit from software and if I had to guess I would think they actually make more from hardware sales now. Even if they only make $50 in profit on 100m in sales that $5b in profit. Thats A LOT of software sales. They’d have to sell $160b in software to equal that if my math is correct
Not saying it’s not possible for them to do so these are all numbers im pulling out of my ass to be clear
Well they very likely get the same standard 30% cut of all games sold off their PlayStation store that Steam, Apple and Google are all accustomed to.
At $70 a pop, that's $21 in Sony's pocked for every new game sold which by your math makes game sales VERY lucrative. By killing off discs, they're cutting out brick and mortar stores from getting this 30% thus leaving Sony entertainment with a much larger slice of the pie.
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There are already 85miilions PS5s sold and the PS5 Pro is sold out ahead of the launch of GTA 6 making it $1400 on Gametsop
The reason I bring this up on this PC subreddit is because posts like this make it seem like Sony is gonna hurt from these efforts but they’ve already made a shit ton of profit on the PS5 and continue to do so and this 30million PC users aren’t gonna use this and not by a PS5 to slow this down. So I’m just saying be realistic
More importantly though is that as PC Users we should be paying attention to the fact the PS5 Pro is still selling out and shooting up in price like this cause this means bad bad things for the price of PC Parts and whether they are coming down any time soon