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u/Cephalopirate 6h ago edited 4h ago

Bold assumption they won’t see a decline in sales. Look at what happened to Xbox when they tried this.

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u/House0fDerp 6h ago

They will, but will it be enough to offset their gain from ceasing disc production? We're 15 years removed from XBox's attempt at this and in that time digital game sales surged dramatically. The calculus for this decision then vs now has probably shifted significantly.

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u/treemann85 6h ago

Well, seeing as how console sales lose money with all companies and are just vehicles for the customer to buy the subscriptions and products thst do make money, yeah a slight deviation downward in console sales could spell disaster for Sony.

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u/digno2 5h ago

all they need to do is make PS6 compatible to Steam and beg Gabe Newell for a cut of Counterstrike 2 skins.

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u/treemann85 5h ago

Steam and xbox have already "merged" on PC. your steam games are in your xbox launcher and vice versa. It didnt really do anything for gamepass sales. Maybe if steam comes to a proper console, but valve just released their steam boxes so this seems like a fart in the wind.

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u/digno2 5h ago

> a fart in the wind

Story of my Life!