I don't think the two are related. They upped shipments because they expect demand to be that high, and that is the only reason. They wouldn't 'splash out' on more shipments just because they have more money
You wrote that perhaps the Q1 profits made Sony decide to manufacture more PS5s, and what I'm saying is that no company would ever base such a huge decision on the profits in ONE quarter. Would literally never happen.
Well Microsoft was never in for the console business. The console business was a way to reduce or eliminate console take over of gaming and home entertainment from their hands, which was Sony's market. The only way to do it was to create their own console and then absorb it into their bigger ecosystem. Thats why the X as in Direct X and the console was originally going to have actual windows which was proven not viable back then.I follow your logic. This may be the time to be bold. While 2020 isn't 2013-level bad where Microsoft were doing an atrocious TV terrible TV job TV with TV Xbox TV One, I don't feel Microsoft are doing a great job with Series X either. I'd decided to buy a Series X at launch when I only knew the specifications and Microsoft's narrative has only made me decide not to buy one at launch, so good f***ing job Microsoft.
That said I don't think Sony are doing as good a job selling PS5 as they did PS4 but a cool $1bn in profits has to embolden you. Sony have said they want to "transition" as many PS4 owners to PS5 as quickly as possible and to do that it can't be too expensive. You know what you can do with a $1bn in profit? You can eat another $100 loss on the first 10m PS5s sold. It sounds insane, but is it? It depends how important securing those early sales are for Sony.
Do you think Sony will have difficulty selling the first 10 million ? Because I think everything will be sold out at launch and they'll sell every PS5s they make for many months, even at $449/$499.I follow your logic. This may be the time to be bold. While 2020 isn't 2013-level bad where Microsoft were doing an atrocious TV terrible TV job TV with TV Xbox TV One, I don't feel Microsoft are doing a great job with Series X either. I'd decided to buy a Series X at launch when I only knew the specifications and Microsoft's narrative has only made me decide not to buy one at launch, so good f***ing job Microsoft.
That said I don't think Sony are doing as good a job selling PS5 as they did PS4 but a cool $1bn in profits has to embolden you. Sony have said they want to "transition" as many PS4 owners to PS5 as quickly as possible and to do that it can't be too expensive. You know what you can do with a $1bn in profit? You can eat another $100 loss on the first 10m PS5s sold. It sounds insane, but is it? It depends how important securing those early sales are for Sony.
No, I think Sony will sell another 100m PS5s but they've set themselves a goal to transition PS4 owners to PS5 at a faster rate than previous generations. People wanting PS5 isn't the issue, people being able to afford a PS5 is by end of Q1 2021 is.
The forecast is crazy 23.4 billion dollars nfor the fiscal year and 2.2 billions dollars profit tj second best profit year for PlayStation the year of a console launch. The profile/loss comparison with PS3 is exactly the inverse situation and this is much better than PS4 launch year.
Is there a forecast for previous launches? Maybe they are just forecasting no change to mitigate stock price issues if they were to fail to hit target (ie forecasting a worst case scenario)The forecast is crazy 23.4 billion dollars nfor the fiscal year and 2.2 billions dollars profit tj second best profit year for PlayStation the year of a console launch. The profile/loss comparison with PS3 is exactly the inverse situation and this is much better than PS4 launch year.
Being a first time PS consumer with the PS4, FF7 never grabbed me like it did with people who have been around since PS1/2 days. I played the demo but still didn't think that it was my thing. TLOU2 and GoT though, damn yeah those were the type of games I was looking for.
