Sony has called the PlayStation 5 its "most profitable generation to date".
  • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    1 month ago

    “More profitable” != “More revenue” as adjusted for inflation. It may mean they have higher mark ups which is netting them more profit on things.

    • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      Well yeah, there are way more gamers now than there were 20 years ago. If anything it would be abnormal if the newest generation isn’t as profitable as previous generations.

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      the advantage the PS4 and PS5 had was the physical console sold at a loss in a shorter time window.

      the PS2 had to push the DVD format to be mainstream, and the PS3 pushing the Bluray format as mainstream (the PS3 was effectively the cheapest bluray player on launch), while both devices retaining backwards compatibility initially by including the previous generations cpu.

      also having the market move to digital saves a lot of cost on logistics and pumping out physical copies.