The company is focusing on profitability in its third year.

Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’::Sony has cut its sales forecast by 4 million units for the fiscal year, down from 25 million to 21 million. It comes as the company missed its sales projections by a million.

  • a1studmuffin@aussie.zoneEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    We should see an improvement in game quality for the platform once last-gen sales drop off enough that developers only need to target current-gen.

    Right now any game that comes out for both PS4+5 is bottlenecked by PS4 memory and performance, with only easy wins taken for PS5 like higher quality assets and faster IO/FPS.

    Designing a game for current-gen platforms from the ground up is when we’ll start to see some more impressive features, but there’s still money on the table for PS4 so it’ll be a few years (IMHO) before we see PS5 exclusives as the norm.

    • Shadywack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      What I really read when you write that is “By the time the earnest benefits of the PS5 platform are realized, they’ll be selling PS5 Pro’s to brute force improvements”.

    • Vub@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      I’m not so sure, there are already pure PS5/XSX games and they are not THAT impressive. Also as someone else commented, once they reach that time there will be a PS5 Pro. This entire generation is a disappointing mess.