Gamers may have begun to shy away from the now more expensive PS5. U.S. April data highlights a 30% decline in PlayStation console sales compared to the previous year. Before the impending Switch 2 price increase, Nintendo’s handheld extended its lead over the competition.
Their strategy right now is literally “Let’s charge more to sell less, and let’s also kneecap a revenue stream that could prop us up during this memory crisis.” Sony has been winning so long that they forgot how easy it is to lose. They are gonna find out.
Edit: I just want to point out that Sony could have easily shifted this into a win. “Hey, this is Tim Sony, President of Sony. Right now, things are hard for everyone in the world of consumer electronics. For 20 years we’ve tried to bring you the best value in entertainment through quality games and low prices. Unfortunately, today, we have to raise our prices to match cost. I know you don’t like it. I don’t like it, either. However, we still want to give you the best value we can. While we can’t control the cost of components, we can control the cost of our first party games. So, now when you buy a new PS5, you get your choice of any first party game you want for free. Any game, no exceptions. We’re also throwing in 6 months of PlayStation Plus as well, which gives you even more games to play immediately. While we wish we could bring you a lower priced console, we are trying our best to make it so that you don’t have to spend more to have the same amount of fun. Now, get out there, and kill, kill, kill.”
“Also, all our first party games will be released on PC at a later date. Why would we leave money on the table? That’s just stupid!”
Kinda weird at the end he called for a school shooting, but otherwise good PR.
It’s a reference to the Dungeon Crawler Carl series of books. If you haven’t read them, I can’t recommend them enough. The audiobooks are also incredibly well done.
Hi Zev!
Goddammit Donut!
The books are crap. They’ve got DOGS in them!
Edit: Somebody got whooshed.
That’s true, but they also have Grand Champion, Breed Winner Regional, National Winner Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk.
They are absolute garbage.
If you thought Ready Player One was good and you like reading self-published internet fanfic, though, knock yourself out.
I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy them. I don’t feel like there is much similarity between DCC and Ready Player One personally. I didn’t care for the protagonist in Ready Player One, and the whole story revolved around pop culture references. DCC has likable main characters in my opinion, and any pop culture references are very few and far between and have no impact on the story.
Weird flex
I mean… if you think “the walls were covered in a weird glowing moss, giving the an area an strange glow,” is writing worth your time, go nuts.
In the first 50 pages the protagonist has a “boss fight” with a mentally ill woman of color, against her will, and murders her. I thought maybe the author was setting up some BIG THEMES but nah, just video game lulz. If the book actually had anything to SAY about human vulnerability transformed into spectacle, I could maybe respect it, but the author simply doesn’t have the chops or the courage to really examine that in any sincere or meaningful way.
You seem sad
God damn it Donut
Oh shit, you just reminded me that the new DCC book is out. I know what I’m doing on my lunch break.
It is, and it’s great so far :) Enjoy, fellow crawler.