*sigh*.
Yet another China thread, yet more corrections to be made.
1. There isn't a cap. Even the article said "Sony’s venture for China intends to package 200,000 consoles annually".
2. So what is this?
Basically, Sony applied to have a 500 Square Meters (1/4 football field size) facility established within the Shanghai Free Trade Zone. The facility will house 20 workers to perform basic QA and packaging work for the China market, and Sony themselves estimate that the facility can put out/process through 200K units per year. They'll put in about 1M RMB (<200K USD) for the facility etc.
Source of this new comes from their recently leaked application for Environmental/Industrial chemical use approval (source: a9vg):
I also have a copy of the FTZ application, but not going to post that here since I don't have original source info.
It's not that it needs a push necessarily, but MGS5 is going to benefit a great deal by being positioned in September. Pushing a title can work in its favour depending on the timing, and what surrounds that push. Konami setting that September date likely has something to do with with SCE, and both MGS and the PS4 are going to benefit greatly from this situation. SCE will be focused on pushing Batman a great deal in June, and the next really big game from that point onwards is going to be MGSV, but it'll be in a much better position than Batman considering the circumstances of its launch. PS4 is in a pretty fantastic position this year leading into the big third quarter at the end of the year.
Zero attach rate? What?
That is what sold through means.
PS4 price cut time confirmed.
Sure, sure. If you keep telling yourself it has games, one day it will truly have them. I can't fault your optimism.
Verendus is being sarcastic
Agh fuck, I fell for it. Good one.
Checks post history for anything PC related.
They mentioned that SFV would not be getting updates that way, which I presumed to mean retail updates.
alright, I suspected this was the case but there's something I don't understand. when 3rd party devs want to release games on a console, they need the license from sony/mS/nintendo yeah? which means they get a cut out of every copy of every 3rd party game sold.
it's all good, I just ended up explaining a couple of times. but I guess that is to be expected since gaf threads move really fasted.
so, allegorally, sony is so deep in the red, that whatever green they make (mostly with playstation) is still not enough to get them closer to breaking even/being green?
has it been announced when sony will ship Ps4s to china?
-sigh-
I see what you mean now about that protagonist. I actually never saw that trailer, I must've seen an even shorter teaser trailer/footage somewhere. If that's what the final game will look like, that's on gow's level of scale. but yeah there's that go on, and platinum track's record.
insurance?
what are you saying though? that sony could've made it a full exclusive instead of console exclusive?
what's the origin of that avatar anyways? what's it supposed to mean?
i'd be bamboozled if by that point sony hadn't done a single price cut to the Ps4.
What I am reading is price drop in September
yeah, I didn't even know sony was an insurance company.
Steam takes roughly a 30% cut, which is about the same amount that the platform holders take. Publishers will release games on platforms to capture as much of their customer base as they can. If there is a substantial audience that will miss out on a game unless it's released on a particular platform, then it behooves the publisher to make a port for that platform even if it's a worse deal overall.
