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.

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    9 months ago

    As far as I know they already lose money selling them because they make way more money through PS plus and the PS store

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      9 months ago

      Consoles never really make money.

      The money is in locking consumers in your ecosystem, which is why exclusives used to be a big deal. Now they’d rather their games be available to people on other consoles since they bought up too many studios

      Like, Xbox wants everyone that owns a Xbox to buy COD for Xbox. But they also can’t limit it to Xbox because a bunch of ps5 people would buy it if they could. So it’s better to sell thru ps5 then losing all those potential customers that will never buy an Xbox.