Sony hate thread

[volatile puar]

Sony just spent the better part of the past few years lighting billion on fire chasing the live service trend, in the process delivering the single most expensive entertainment blunder in the past 100 years, Spider-Man 2 barely broke even, TLOU2 killed the franchise and likely Naughty Dog, and God of War: Foid Edition is bound to be a financial disaster.

I'm not sure where you're getting this notion that Sony's gaming division is profitable.

Playstation is like Valve and Apple, they don't sell software, and they don't sell hardware, they sell licenses. Every time a copy of CoD or GTA for Playstation sells, Playstation gets a cut of the proceeds because you can't put a game on Playstation without buying a license. First-party games are important for the health of the brand, but they are not necessary for profit.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

Best case scenario, it's just going to lead to another fucking generation that doesn't get going until the end because every god damn thing will need to be cross platform with PS5 to make any god damn money anyways.

Considering we're still seeing shit being released for the PS4, we might have a first and be getting releases on 3 console generations at once, assuming Sony doesn't do the stupid and sunset PS4's Store.

Between diminishing returns on what hardware can do while still being affordable, the fact they keep cranking the price up when by now a base PS5 should be maybe half of what it was on release, and the billions spent chasing the Live Service dragon just in time for everyone to get fucking sick of Live Services, Sony has turned what should have been a locked in console generation (Xbox kinda fucked off into the woods, Nintendo does Nintendo things and doesn't care) into a generational fumble. No one needs a goddamn PS6 - they could barely move PS5's, even with GTA6 the fucking things are likely still rotting in warehouses.

They've unironically priced out the people most likely to buy Consoles, and I find it amusing that non-AAA developers realize if they don't want financial bombs, they need to make things for the previous gen. This would never happen last generation, though how much of that is the PS4's market dominance and how much is the PS3's architecture being a complete pain in the fucking ass is beyond me...

 

[80s Stallone]

I want to live long enough to see SIE go bankrupt and their entire executive staff be forced to commit seppuku live on YouTube.

 

[The Last Stand]

Only way I can see the PS6 being somewhat successful is if Sony figures out native PS3 emulation. Wait, then it may be more expensive down the line.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

we might have a first and be getting releases on 3 console generations at once, assuming Sony doesn't do the stupid and sunset PS4's Store.

I don't believe it's the first time, cause I want to say that in the 90s at one point Sega was supporting the Master System, The Genesis, and the Saturn all at the same time during the Saturn's early lifespan and there was all of the peripherals that were released for the Genesis that they were still supporting like the Sega CD and the 32X. Definitely turned out very well for Sega as we all saw.

 

[Metamorpho]

I was buck broken by GamerGate and this is my video.

 

[moocow]

Playstation is like Valve and Apple

Well, Apple maybe. Valve gives a lot of their software away.

 

[volatile puar]

Well, Apple maybe. Valve gives a lot of their software away.

Apple also gives most of their software away. The point is not that software sales are insignificant line items, Apple does in fact make a lot of money from hardware sales, and Valve makes a lot of money from gambling, but the biggest profit maker is the platform revenue.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Oh... no no no no no

https://x.com/SmashJT/status/2072095269957841054

 

[Rinyuu is my EX]

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Oh... no no no no no

https://x.com/SmashJT/status/2072095269957841054

He should’ve fucked off the moment that TLoU2 2020 massive leak happened. It was so bad it buck broke his ass into releasing the game by force.
I cannot believe people don’t remember that, not to mention ND pathetic excuse for blaming “Hecking chuds” for the leak instead of their own fuck up.

 

[regalterry]

He should’ve fucked off the moment that TLoU2 2020 massive leak happened. It was so bad it buck broke his ass into releasing the game by force.

Any sane company would have demoted his ass, or sidelined him into a position where he couldn't do more damage, after the colossal flop that was TLOU2.

The man singlehandedly destroyed all of NG's profitable IPs, kicked out all their talent, and proceeded to torpedo their reputation. They went from industry and fan darlings, to their whole creative output being reduced to memes about golf clubs and trannies, and all it took was a single Jew.

Instead, he is rewarded with being the lead on another expensive project, that he already managed to fuck up with a single trailer.

 

[Markorian]

If you read financial documents instead of watching youtube grift videos you'd realize that Playstation's been very profitable this past generation. You can like it or hate it but they've had shit down pat financially on most of their single player stuff.

Their profit margins are atrocious, and that's after transferring costs to outside the division while marking down revenue that isn't actually theirs (sony takes a 30% cut of all psn transactions, they list 100% as revenue though), and if you actually read their financial documents, you'd see singleplayer stuff is losing money hand over fist, while the only bit of narrow profitability they have is from taking their cut of fortnite lootboxes, genshit chinkpact whales rolling for their favorite tranny, and roblox groomers buying roblox bucks to bribe minors with.

 

[Kabobs]

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/

Another hammer in the coffin for physical media, bros. Truly the worst timeline

 

[Captain Quazar]

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https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/

Another hammer in the coffin for physical media, bros. Truly the worst timeline

This makes me all the more glad that I'm choosing to stick with retro games from now on.

 

[wholetthegodsout]

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https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/

Another hammer in the coffin for physical media, bros. Truly the worst timeline

Wow I never thought they would rip the band aid off so directly. I am glad I gave up on physical years ago so I dont really care. (also probably not buying a PS6)

 

[Korpon]

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https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/

Another hammer in the coffin for physical media, bros. Truly the worst timeline

Cattle will still keep on buying those digital copies and consoles. They think you're crazy for being worried about media preservation or actually owning things you buy.

 

[El Chacal De La Trompeta]

5 WILL be the last console i ever have huh?
thanks to regional pricing steam games are 30% or more cheaper than a ps5 game.
oh well.
but yeah the ps6 will be diskless and dickless

 

[Anakin Soywalker]

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https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/

Another hammer in the coffin for physical media, bros. Truly the worst timeline

Physical disks haven't contained the playable game for almost a decade now. Disks have already been reduced to glorified game keys that prompt your system to download the other 90% of the game before you can play anything.

 

[man bun rapist]

Man it sure is "mind boggling" why piracy is so rampant Sony is really on the side of the consumer and their right to get sodomized at a moments notice.

 

[King Of Braves]

I think this is the final nail for me as well. Consoles have long failed to live up to their worth compared to PCs, so they can keep the handful of exclusives they'll generate over the console's lifecycle. They all end up on PC one way or the other.