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(Opinion piece) Hello, PC gaming here: Are the consoles OK? With sales dropping and confidence declining, how close are we to the end of consoles as we know them? (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

This is an "article" in PC GAMER written by some "pC mAsTeR rAC3" lunatic. Who upvotes this crap?

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/ps5-is-sonys-most-profitable-console-gen-ever-after-just-3-years-beating-ps4-by-over-dollar36-billion-in-sales/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I thought from the title it was obvious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"Most profitable" just means it exists in the age where people who play FIFA and CoD are more milked for microtransactions. That line trends down when their hardware units sold do too. PS5 isn't seeing the growth rate Sony wanted given their investment, even with complete domination of their market segment. If everything were hunky-dory in PlayStation land, I doubt they'd bother to bring God of War, Spider-Man, and Horizon to PC at all. There's also the fact that PC over the past few years overtook consoles for where the most copies of games are sold, for most franchises anyway, which never used to be the case.