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Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:38 pm
by Monkey Man
twitter.com/Genki_JPN/status/1757743775336825075
In the past, we wanted to popularize console and the 1st party titles' main purpose was to make the console popular. It is true, but there is a synergy to it. So if you have strong first party content, not only with our console but also other platforms like computers, 1st party can be grown with multiplatform and that can help operating profit to improve. So that is another one we want to proactively work on.
I personally think there are opportunities out there for improvement of margins, so I would like to go aggressive in improving our margin performance."
Probably "just" PC Day One releases but who knows.
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twitter.com/6d6f636869/status/1757679083469889796
Sony COO: "It's been four months since I became chairman of SIE. A big problem of SIE that I found is they don't necessarily have deep understanding of how their work is being translated to growth, generation of sustainable profits and higher margin for the unit as a whole"
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:43 pm
by rinks
Oh god here we go again.
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:45 pm
by Tomous
I imagine this is more for PC releases (maybe going day 1) but I do wonder if they are considering putting some stuff on Switch 2.
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:57 pm
by shy guy 64
What exclusives do Sony have again?
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:00 pm
by Robbo-92
So, now Nintendo are the only ones not going multi format?
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:02 pm
by Moggy
shy guy 64 wrote:What exclusives do Sony have again?
Hermie Hopperhead.
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:02 pm
by KK
Tomous wrote:I imagine this is more for PC releases (maybe going day 1) but I do wonder if they are considering putting some stuff on Switch 2.
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:23 pm
by ITSMILNER
If Sony and MS both put their first party games on PC day one, what’s the incentive for anyone to buy a PlayStation or Xbox console? Me, right now, I’m just planning on buying the next gen Steam Deck and Switch consoles, that would basically give me access to everything.
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:25 pm
by Victor Mildew
ITSMILNER wrote:If Sony and MS both put their first party games on PC day one, what’s the incentive for anyone to buy a PlayStation or Xbox console? Me, right now, I’m just planning on buying the next gen Steam Deck and Switch consoles, that would basically give me access to everything.
A good pc costs a strawberry floating fortune for one thing.
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:25 pm
by Knoyleo
ITSMILNER wrote:Me, right now, I’m just planning on buying the next gen Steam Deck and Switch consoles, that would basically give me access to everything.
Fixed that for you.
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:28 pm
by Rex Kramer
I wonder if the move to streaming means under the TV boxes will either be much, much cheaper (and therefore lower overall sales and margins) or non-existent and therefore hooking people on services and maximising revenue from the games themselves is key for the medium to long term.
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:14 pm
by Squinty
Makes me think, have we finally reached a point where games development is simply too expensive now? They've been complaining about costs since the 360/PS3 era.
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:34 pm
by ITSMILNER
Squinty wrote:Makes me think, have we finally reached a point where games development is simply too expensive now? They've been complaining about costs since the 360/PS3 era.
I think they have, the amount they are spending on games+length of time they take has increased dramatically over the last generation. It’s going to hit a point where you get diminishing returns, things need to be scaled back, you can’t rise the price of games again either as the public just cannot afford them.
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:38 pm
by Robbo-92
Problem is, unless you're Nintendo, who (outside of a few franchises/individual games) generally go for quality over quantity/length, people have just come to expect bigger and better games from developers now. Except for underlying physics engines, which should always be advancing, it's not like games would have been unplayable if they still looked like PS4 games is it?
Probably helps that Nintendo are still stuck in that PS3/360 era as well, well they're between those and the PS4/Xbox One. Probably makes games a fair bit cheaper to develop.
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:49 pm
by Winckle
Tomous wrote:I imagine this is more for PC releases (maybe going day 1)
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:09 pm
by jawa_
I'm thinking that this could mean PlayStation Studios games appearing Day One on Amico.
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:26 pm
by Drumstick
So if you have strong first party content
If doing a significant amount of heavy lifting here
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:44 pm
by Zilnad
My PS5 is just a blu ray player at this point. First party releases on PC just cements this.
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:55 pm
by Qikz
Victor Mildew wrote:ITSMILNER wrote:If Sony and MS both put their first party games on PC day one, what’s the incentive for anyone to buy a PlayStation or Xbox console? Me, right now, I’m just planning on buying the next gen Steam Deck and Switch consoles, that would basically give me access to everything.
A good pc costs a strawberry floating fortune for one thing.
Also a console just works™
Re: Sony president wants to improve margins with Multi-Platform releases.
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:56 am
by Winckle
What I'm hearing is there's going to be a surprise drop of Bloodbourne Q3 with 120HZ 4K support on PC.