While the pricing is laughable, I can also see where they're coming from. With Microsoft's endless run of console market own goals, PlayStation probably rightly sees itself as having no direct competition.
You guys had me at blood and semen.
What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?
While the pricing is laughable, I can also see where they're coming from. With Microsoft's endless run of console market own goals, PlayStation probably rightly sees itself as having no direct competition.
While this is true and I do agree with it you'd think these companies would've learned by now how the gaming community behaves. As I said earlier, this has shades of PS3 about it. Where Sony came out saying stuff like "I will work more hours to buy one" and "the generation starts when we say it does". Announce the high price point thinking that they can because they own the market. But all it did back then is make the Wii and 360 look like more attractive options
Obviously this time around the XB brand is in the gutter and Nintendo wasn't then and isn't now competing with an identical product. Plus the non-pro PS5 does exist. However I do think there are some parallels there. And I think between Sony's pricing and the Switch 2 potentially being basically a portable PS4 Pro? I think Japan in particular, who already favour the Switch significantly, could well swing heavily away from Sony
Basically, these sorts of things aren't about one thing or another being a deal breaker. It's more that these kinds of moves give people permission to swap to another platform
@skywake Not to mention Sony shuttered their firstparty studios that made the kind of games the japanese market are more into, practically leaving almost exclusively third-person action games marketed to and created for a western market.
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