Actually, my entire point is that the LACK of next gen only titles is what is causing the sales drop.
Then there is no need to talk about "dated last gen game design and ideas" as some secret reason...it has nothing to do with lots of this as far as I can see.
The evidence was in a subsequent post of mine which shows a 60% drop in first party sales from last year. 6.4 vs 10.5 million. In that post, i point out that Ratchet sold 1 million, Returnal 0.5 million. I forgot about Days Gone PC but Sony made just $22 million in revenue from PC all year so its safe to assume it only sold 0.5 million in that quarter. Thats just 2 million in new game sales last year's quarter. That brings us down to 8.5 million vs 6.4 million. Still way too low considering HFW and GT7 are juggernauts that should have legs especially as new PS5s are being sold.
Should have? When the fuck did you travel 6 to 7 years in the future to tell use they stopped having legs? Think about what that term means, I don't know how you'd be able to tell right now, how they'd do over years of time on sale though....
So you need to factor the pandemic, people having less money because if it, people transitioning to PS4 to PS5, as in many who love GT or Horizon might put off buying either title until they have a PS5, those that have a PS5 might not have the money to buy all brand new games day 1 full price, lots of this factors into why we are seeing this, on top of those subscription services.
confirms my theory that the audience is simply sick and tired of last gen experiences.
Nothing in that fucking data is telling us why someone is not buying now vs before. All we can do is factor in the economics of what is going on currently in the industry, vs forcing this narrative like anyone can read the minds of consumers to reach to this "sick and tired of" nahhh, nothing in that data ran a fucking poll on all consumers regarding their purchases for anyone to come to that conclusion.
Sony literally has 3 of the best selling games in the top 10 in 2022 currently, the number 1 literally being a cross gen game
The NPD Group has revealed the top 20 best-selling games of the first half of 2022, with a mix of old and new titles dominating sales so far.
gamerant.com
They are so sick and tired of last gen titles, Elden Ring has broken ever record for From Soft? Thats how tired they are of those last gen ideas huh?
Do better Slimy. I don't see anything here to reach to those levels as I don't buy that the majority even fucking care about that to the point of not buying games, I think they care about their bills being paid, keeping their jobs, saving money etc. So buying used later on makes sense, getting those services like Gamepass and PS Plus Combo makes sense etc, but i don't see any data to tell me someone is sick and tired of this or that lol
To suggest that, it would mean Ratchet, Demon Souls and Returnal should be destroying all those titles in sales to show that people are um "sick and tired" of those last gen titles, I find the majority don't care, don't even notice and only care about a huge name AAA title coming out regardless if it is on last gen and next gen or only next gen etc. Again...look at Elden Ring. They bought it, they like it, it broke records. There is your "sick and tired" Slimy, they hate that game sooo much /s lol
For every Ghost of tsushima, there is a Battlefield 2042. These games have access to hundreds of millions of gamers and they are selling fewer copies than they did when they were mid gen
yea, maybe that had to do with how bad 2042 was received Slimy, that might have nothing at all to do with next gen vs last gen.
1. A Pandemic happened an folks have less money
2. Even without a pandemic and if 2042 was next gen only, it still flops sir.
None of that is some crazy theory, a good game selling still applies and a bad game tanking will still happen. So BF selling fewer copies is a horrid example and literally cherry picking to try to force some narrative. As a fan of the title...as someone who fucking owns 2042, sir...the issues with that have nothing to do with some sick and tired of past gen ideals as why didn't you fucking list Call Of Duty? How come you didn't list Assassins Creed? Elden Ring? smh
Why? Clearly no one wants to play these games.
nah, they either don't have the funds or some of those game flopped like with 2042. I don't even see how someone would want what 2042 is next gen only and just pretend all those design issues don't fucking exist or something lol
With Lego Star Wars being in that top 10, Minecraft for Switch....I simply don't see any data to argue the majority really care about this next gen only thing as much as you might think, yet again cited....Elden Ring.
They don't fucking care sir and you don't have any data to prove otherwise as how they spend is the best data we can get and they have no issue buying cross gen, last gen etc. We might talk about that here, but I don't see that as some "majority" topic.