CEOs: “I raised the price, why isn’t there more money in my bank?”
“The enshititfication will continue until profits improve!”
string music
Profits did not improve.
Am i out of touch? No! It’s the children who are wrong.
You see, what you should of done is raise the price even more.
-other CEO.
Don’t tell them the price. Make them call to get a quote.
-a shadowy figure in the corner
Oh so that’s why they’re rolling back the releasing games on PC thing
Lol. Lmao even
Their strategy right now is literally “Let’s charge more to sell less, and let’s also kneecap a revenue stream that could prop us up during this memory crisis.” Sony has been winning so long that they forgot how easy it is to lose. They are gonna find out.
Edit: I just want to point out that Sony could have easily shifted this into a win. “Hey, this is Tim Sony, President of Sony. Right now, things are hard for everyone in the world of consumer electronics. For 20 years we’ve tried to bring you the best value in entertainment through quality games and low prices. Unfortunately, today, we have to raise our prices to match cost. I know you don’t like it. I don’t like it, either. However, we still want to give you the best value we can. While we can’t control the cost of components, we can control the cost of our first party games. So, now when you buy a new PS5, you get your choice of any first party game you want for free. Any game, no exceptions. We’re also throwing in 6 months of PlayStation Plus as well, which gives you even more games to play immediately. While we wish we could bring you a lower priced console, we are trying our best to make it so that you don’t have to spend more to have the same amount of fun. Now, get out there, and kill, kill, kill.”
Kinda weird at the end he called for a school shooting, but otherwise good PR.
It’s a reference to the Dungeon Crawler Carl series of books. If you haven’t read them, I can’t recommend them enough. The audiobooks are also incredibly well done.
The books are crap. They’ve got DOGS in them!
Edit: Somebody got whooshed.
Hi Zev!
Goddammit Donut!
They are absolute garbage.
If you thought Ready Player One was good and you like reading self-published internet fanfic, though, knock yourself out.
God damn it Donut
“Also, all our first party games will be released on PC at a later date. Why would we leave money on the table? That’s just stupid!”
If you didn’t have a PS5 already, you aren’t likely to want one now.
Perfect time to stop publishing on Steam lol
Hi, I want a PS5
Good news, Sony desperately wants to sell you one.
With GTA 6 releasing soon this might not be so true. I feel a lot of players won’t want to wait for a PC port.
That game will never live up to the hype.
!Remind me lol
That game is going to explode in sales. But I think it will also live up to the hype too
Raising prices and removing future games from pc, It’s like Sony doesn’t want any more money.
Not buying the new Switch 2 until there’s actually enough games that I want to play. PS5 is out my mind and the Series X is dead to me
Problem with Nintendo, is it’s mostly just remakes of the same games and characters. Also they screwed any customers who bought games before the switch 1, as you can’t play them on switch.
The switch 1, they never fixed the joycons… They should have recalled and redesigned every joycon… But, for some reason people seem ok with that. Nintendo imho is actually fairly anti consumer
Ps5 I ended up selling. It’s good but I figured I have hundreds of steam games, so there was no real benefit of having a ps5 too.
Use the console you want… But, I’m never buying a Nintendo again. I’m happy to be able to continue playing the same games I bought 15 years ago on the latest steam deck
Nintendo is extremely anti consumer, even anti-fan of their own products.
Why people buy Nintendo products and games years after years is crazy to me.
I bought a Switch 2 and used it to play Donkey Kong and Mario Kart. They were fun, but now there’s no more games for it really.
There’s no new Switch 2 games even lined up right now as far as anyone’s concerned. And they decided it’s better to remake Star Fox again rather than make a new one, it felt like a big middle finger.
Last Mario kart I played was #8. It’s not really any different to the original. They might as well call it Mario kart hd.
I played wacky wheels more than I ever played Mario kart tbh
I stood in line for hours for the wii on launch… Back then, it was a new interesting product though. I wish I kept it, and all the accessories (especially guitar hero)
I bought a wii u… Sure they don’t fix the touchscreen if it breaks and you need a new one though… Still, there were some cool new games, but, somewhat similar to the Wii’s…
Switch, I understand lining up for it… But, once it was clear that any previous purchases are basically wasted, the joycons were seriously dodgy, and Nintendo was never going to fix it (and many another 5000 mario games), they should have lost people then.
Then they sold the switch 2… You can still only play games approved by nintendo, and really, the library is mainly Nintendo games, or games available on every platform. By now, Steam deck has gotten awesome, and you can STILL play games from your library from 20 years ago. And, you can use other stores if you want, and have a wide range of games, even in the steam store INCLUDING NSFW ones. And, you know those games are going to almost certainly work in the future without repurchase (and, also work on computer).
I literally just bought a humble bundle of 10 games for 20% the price of 1 switch game. And I can play them on computer, TV, Steamdeck, etc.
I’d only pay for nintendo if they were subscription based and thin client. As it stands though, I feel like I’m better off just waiting 20 years until I’m 60 and they’re readily available on emulator
They’re already emulated, it’s how I play them. Fitgirl releases them ready to go, emulators included. Check them out.
I’m gonna turn my ps4 into an emulator and probably turn the ps5 into a linux gaming pc.
People who didn’t mind to pay alot of money bought the PS5 at launch. Those who didn’t buy it then, were waiting for the price to drop. Increasing it now is not going to get them much sales.
People are buying the Switch 2?
I got one for free because Amazon fucked up and had a unit in the storage containers I bought a while back.
Thing’s just collecting dust while I wait for Duskbloods. Which I may not even buy because IIRC, it has a PvP focus and I don’t want to subscribe to Nintendo Online.
Ok, I just had a great idea. Are you ready for this? It’s such a good idea. You may want to sit down for this.
Ok, you ready? Cool.
You could just send the Switch 2…to me! For free!!!
ISN’T THAT A GREAT IDEA???
At this point console cost just as much as PC so why not get a PC or PC handheld if you can?
Because my hobby is gaming. I don’t have time to take on the additional hobby of fiddling with a PC.
Also, PC prices have gone up too, haven’t they?
The days of having to constantly fiddle with your pc are pretty long gone. I built my current pc a couple years ago and have only had to open it for some minor upgrades (new ssd) and cleaning.
PC prices are definitely up though.
I built my current pc a couple years ago and have only had to open it for some minor upgrades (new ssd) and cleaning.
For many that is even too much, then add to that all the software issues, fiddling with settings, etc etc. Consoles are and will be for a long time the simpler and quicker way to play. (For most “normal” people)
That’s a level of lazy I can’t get behind, but I guess the market exists for a reason.
Especially when the price of consoles are matching PCs. The price of being that lazy is too high, and that’s not even factoring the advantages of everything you get out of a PC.
Some of us have lives beyond work and gaming that requires our time and money.
It’s not laziness; it’s time. I’ve got three kids and a full time job. If I sit down to play a game and I’m spending that time fiddling with drivers or trying to figure out why the video isn’t displaying on my tv, then I don’t get to play a game.
I swear, PC snobs are worse than recipe writers about underestimating prep time.
“Fiddling with drivers” means pressing UPDATE on your graphics driver once every couple of months, even less frequently if you don’t play the newest AAA Games.
Getting the screen to display takes the same time as with a console: Once while setting up and usually amounts to “Plug in the chord”.
If you want to play on console you do you, but this shouldn’t be your reason.
