Sony’s PlayStation is extremely good at two things: Making a console people want to buy, and having its devs make great single players games for that console.
Sony’s PlayStation is extremely good at two things: Making a console people want to buy, and having its devs make great single players games for that console.
Have they though? Sure they’ve made two headsets now, but it still feels like they are targeting a very niche, premium audience. It’s nowhere near as hard as Xbox leaned into Kinect for the Xbox One launch, for example.
They criticize the Q. Once again, a niche premium accessory that seems more like a test run for a later projeft than a real product. I don’t think Sony has a whole lot invested in that.
They claim the new PS5 slim models have a price increase. But that’s just the digital edition, which also now comes with a larger SSD and an upgrade path. The physical edition gets the larger SSD for free.
They criticize rumors of a Pro edition. Literally just tossing stuff against the wall to see what sticks here lol.
They cite Bungie failing to “teach” other studios how to make live-servicd games. That premise seems incredibly flawed to me: they bought Bungie for their existing productive portfolio.
They criticize Sony for going “off the rails” to try to stop the Microsoft-Activision/Blizzard acquisition. For es claims that Sony spent an “enormous amount of time and money and reputation on that fight”… But did they? Yeah lawyers aren’t free, but did Sony really spend an enormous amount? That seems like a stretch. And reputation is incredible subjective: a lot of people who aren’t Microsoft shills can see that mergers and acquisitions hurt everyone other than shareholders.
Forbes fails to cite any actual sales figures in this article, which would show that the PS5 has been dominating the Xbox series this gen. Comparing it to the Switch is tricky, but however you slice it the PS5 is selling well. Sony just released their fastest-selling game in history in Spider-Man 2. They just announced they are finally free of supply chain constraints on the PS5 and have told their shareholders to expect one of the biggest holiday seasons in history.
This article is a weird hit piece. Did someone at Microsoft write this?
You’re spot on with your analysis.
Forbes has gotten bad about grinding out shit articles with no sourcing and a lot of speculation. They’re often reinforcing of the status quo and pro-business instead of pro-consumer.