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So in terms of dollars, 11 of the 20 games are from the Call of Duty Franchise? Guess that is to be expected.

mmm, my perfect Inkay in PoGo....I was saving it for a potential community day, and I think with the Mega in the works, that may still be a thing.

But at the same time I've been keeping my best friend Malamar from existing.

Thats correct. However, we also found that the PS5 barrier is unexpectedly large. The console costs about 80,000 yen in Japanese yen. When you factor in the cost of software and monthly subscriptions, it comes to about 100,000 yen at the time of purchase. This is not an amount that can be easily reached, especially for younger generations. This situation is not limited to Japan, but is similar overseas as well.
Our next challenge is to overcome these obstacles and get Monster Hunter Wilds to as many people as possible. Sales will begin in the future, so we are currently formulating a strategy to take advantage of these opportunities to boost sales throughout the year.

The Nintendo Switch 2 was released in June 2025 at a price of 49,980 yen (tax included), and the response was better than we had expected. While prices vary by country, this reaffirmed the high level of cost-consciousness among ordinary consumers.

This made me recall a dream I had last night about getting eaten by a great white shark

Former PlayStation boss says "no one is in touch with their fan base more than Nintendo" and even Sony "was never this in touch" with what players wanted

PlayStation's former head Shawn Layden says Nintendo is more in touch with its fan base than basically any company of its size, which is also the reason it hasn't suffered from the post-Covid gaming slowdown that other publisher's have.

"If it's not broke, don't fix it, Layden told HipHopGamer when asked what he would do at the head of Nintendo. "I think Nintendo's been very intentional in what lane they play in. And I'm not being dismissive about that at all. I mean, I think they're very focused on who their fans are and what their fans want."
"No one is more in touch with their fan base than Nintendo," he continued. "Even PlayStation was never this in touch with the fan base as Nintendo is. They know who their fans are. Look at it this way. During the pandemic, when we saw revenues in video gaming rising significantly because we're all locked inside and can't go out, a lot of companies hired a bunch of people because they thought this curve is: 'All numbers go up. Let's chase that number. Let's go, go, go. Throw some more gas on the fire.'"
Layden then explained that after lockdown restrictions eased up - who woulda thought? - people went outside and didn't have as much time for their consoles, at least partially leading to all the dev layoffs we've seen in recent years.

"Well, actually, Nintendo knew that would happen," Layden went on. "So, they're like the one team that stayed just in position. They stayed on course. They had their plan. They're moving their plan. So they didnt have to suffer the peaks and valleys so much as if you're chasing the opportunity. They just know what their opportunity is. They see it. They understand it better than anyone else. And they go for it and they do it really well."
"If you put me in that job, I would just stand back," he concluded.

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So maggots.

I'm not eating a bug unless my life depends on it.

Probably has to deal with new stock, not already existing stock.

wow, so many anti-semitic jews.../s

Suddenly I'm remembering the debate he had with Brittany Venti where he said he was in favor of pedophiles having access to CSAM that the parents approved on

I get that its cool to hate on Sony for various reasons and decisions,(their live service push) but saying that the PS5 flopped is factually wrong.

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PlayStation 5 Sales Fall Short Of PS4, Even As Helldivers 2 Breaks Records
Sony predicts a quieter year, but online FPS Concord is still coming soon
Sony sold over 20 million PlayStation 5s in its last fiscal year, an impressive number that nevertheless failed to hit its original goal of 25 million, and even missed its revised target of 21 million consoles sold. The latest numbers make it clear that the next-gen hardware will probably never catch up to the sales of the PS4, even as Helldivers 2 crushes all expectations after becoming the fastest-selling Sony-published game in the companys history.

• Hardware:
• PS5 units sold: 18.5 million (-11% YoY).
• Hardware revenue: 1.13 trillion yen (down from 1.21 trillion yen in FY23).
• Software:
• Total game software sales: 2.5 trillion yen (+13% YoY).
• Add-on content alone contributed 1.34 trillion yen (+24% YoY).
• First-party software sales declined to 28.9 million units from 39.7 million in FY23.

Those type of people are morons and is in a constant state of reassurance, lol. The games might not have changed much and sony exclusives aren't much of a thing like they used to be, but it has always been pure cope to deny just how much the technological improvements jumped with this generation transition. Those people you are seeing don't matter.

Players are still very much focused on a handful of live-service games, as over 70 percent of PS5 and Xbox Series X/S players in the US played at least one of the top 10 live-service games in January.

Further, more than 40 percent of all playtime in the US in January across those consoles was spent on those same 10 live-service games.That's according to Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, based on Circana's Player Engagement Tracker. "Used to be that players would jump from big game to big game to some other games but they were most often moving to something new that they purchased," he surmised. "Now, the live-service games suck out a ton of available time, and it's hard to beat free if it's good."

Were way beyond the point where people will swap game consoles for exclusive games, says Circana games boss Mat Piscatella.

Speaking on The Game Business Show after the release of the latest Circana market data for the US, Piscatella discussed the success of Forza Horizon 5 and Stellar Blade.

Microsofts Forza Horizon 5 was published on PS5 in April, having initially launched in 2021 for Xbox and PC. The PS5 release helped the game reach No.3 in May in the US, and was still going strong at No.6 in June. Its now the 11th best-selling game of the year in the country and one of the best-selling PS5 games of the year worldwide.

Meanwhile, Stellar Blade was a PS5 exclusive from 2024 that transitioned to PC in June this year. As a result, the Sony game rose from No.185 in May to No.5 in June in the US charts.

Weve been seeing this now for about a year or so, Piscatella said. Every month youre seeing a game pop up thats been gone for a while. And youre like, how did that happen? Well it came out on another platform.

People who buy a hardware system these days, theyre doing it because of the ecosystem, because of their friends list. Youre not going to get people to transition consoles because of exclusives anymore. Were way beyond that point.

People are entrenched into their systems. And bringing the content to them is the only way to win. And that is what everyone is doing, except for Nintendo they tend to do their own thing. Even they could benefit from it, but of course they wont, thats not their MO.

Although Nintendo sticks with exclusives, its worth noting that The Pokmon Company is increasingly releasing its games across mobile and Switch platforms, including the upcoming Pokmon Champions and the newly released Pokmon Friends.

Piscatella believes that in a market as competitive as this one, going to where players are is proving essential.

In the US at least, the Top Ten live service games suck up half of all gaming time every month, and every other game has got to fight for the remainder. So, bringing that content to where people are is the only way youre going to be able to win in an environment like were looking at right now.
Forza being this strong thats great. That really bodes well for its next iteration, if they come out day one across systems. Every game finding its way to more stores and ecosystems that is how youre going to survive and win.

Mat Piscatella: "I've been talking about this issue in video games for months. Low income consumers had already been getting phased out of buying hardware. Now we may (are lilkely to) see the same thing McDonald's is, with middle income consumers also getting squeezed. Same conditions, same behaviors." Bluesky

Speaking with Greg Miller on Kinda Funny Games about everything going on across the gaming industry, Piscatella laid out some sobering figures for the video game audience in the U.S, pointing out that 30% of players won't buy a game this year.

The players that do? Only 12% of them are buying a game once a month. The vast majority of players buy only one or two games, meaning free-to-play games like Fortnite are fighting every new release for attention

The availability of Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox, GTA, COD, etc is far more important to a platform today than exclusive content. Sure, exclusive content still has its value, but nowhere near the level it used to. And for 3rd parties, there's just no reason to make a single platform exclusive unless that platform holder is going to provide the investment and support necessary to dramatically lessen the risk of overall development. Making games available on several platforms, and even device types (Mobile, PC, etc) helps provide more bites at the apple, and less dependance on one audience or manufacturer. The bets are so big now and carry such tremendous risk (so often now one release is make-or-break for a studio) that there's really no option to place the entire bet in one place. Again, not unless some platform holder pays a lot of money for it.

We dont deserve great apes.

Release your games on PC and I'll be happy.

Sony Senior Vice President Sadahiko Hayakawa says they are gradually shifting their gaming business from a hardware centric business model to a community and engagement based platform business model #PlayStation

In the gaming business, we are moving away from a hardware centric business model more to a platform business that expands the community and increases engagement. - Sadahiko Hayakawa

He says overall Sony are making a shift to creation as a company, as the 3 segments of games, music and pictures make up 60% of Sonys total revenue. For example shifting from output devices like TVs and to creation devices like digital cameras. Also things like music streaming, music catalogs, crunchyroll and teaming up with Bandai Namco to create new entertainment and IP. In the gaming business the shift towards a platform business is increasing. He says they are transitioning to entertainment creation to expand and to improve stability and profitability.

You guys chose this stupid story and let people forget about the list

I don't care what someone's actual age is, if a man or woman doing porn looks like they're literally 12 or 13 and is unofficially supposed to be underage in the video, it's serving the same purpose as child porn. Only pedophiles would be interested in watching that.

That's why proper conservation methods are carried out to increase their population. Culling non-breeding lions is one of them. These aging lions drive away younger males and stunt the pride's growth. But sometimes mistakes do happen as shown in this topic.

Or it could be corruption, I wouldn't put it pass that too.

Follow the legal rules for emulation and experience those titles as they were meant to be in consistent frames without snares and hiccups.

They should either beef up the hardware or allow devs to better optimize. They choose neither and hand you a copy without discount. Which if youre happy with that, cool, but it doesnt compare favorably to the polish and hardware of Apple that can be had at standard entry level prices.

Of course Nintendo games sell like hot cakes on Nintendo systems, their base doesn't have any other games to play.

They also dont spend on making their games function properly with stable frame rates. Or just release games in alpha like Pokemon.

Experimental games are good and Nintendo is finally getting better in this area, but lets not pretend they werent as stale as anyone for a long time. Decades of same old sanitized New Mario bros, no original characters allowed in Paper Mario, etc.

well yeah, most of the world is basically run on computers. Without any specific criteria other than company X being pricier than company Y you kinda have to go with what what each companys products bring to the table.

Nintendo since its still just a gaming device. I literally dont know if you can even stream something like netflix on it.

on a dollar for dollar comparison you get way more potential out of main apple products like their phones or computers.