Sony Q3 results. shame ton of money, bad PS5 shortages

[BananaKing]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sony-q3-fy2021-oct-dec-results-ps5-3-9m-ltd-17-3m-ps4-116-8m-record-year-for-playstation-2nd-highest-quarterly-revenue-in-history.547268/

Im just linking the resetera thread as I am lazy.

Amazing results profit and revenue wise.

PS5 just shipped 3.9 million in the holiday quarter. Obviously due to low supply. They lowered their forecast for the year due to low supply as well.

[the-pi-guy]

Sony announced they are working on 10 live service games.

I think I have 11 possibilities here:

Spoiler for Hidden:

<ul class="bbc_list" style="list-style-type: decimal;"><li>Factions?</li><li>Gran Turismo 7</li><li>Bungie&#39;s new IP</li><li>Guerrilla&#39;s new MP project</li><li>Firesprite&#39;s MP project</li><li>Insomniac&#39;s MP project</li><li>Deviation&#39;s MP project</li><li>Firewalk&#39;s MP project</li><li>Arrowhead&#39;s project</li><li>London Studio&#39;s Project?</li><li> Haven&#39;s project</li></ul>

A few of them might not be considered live service.

Don't think there's cause for alarm.

Sony's looking to *really* expand PS, esp first party reach, meaning strong combo of AAA single player games & multiplayer games together. That's what these Firewalk/Deviation/etc partnerships are about. Big single player isn't disappearing.

— Shinobi602 (@shinobi602) February 2, 2022

[the-pi-guy]

Bungie is a private company, the majority of whose shares are owned by its employees. So the payment of the consideration is structured to incentivize the shareholders and other creative talent to continue working at Bungie after the acquisition closes. Approximately one-third of the $3.6 billion consideration for acquisition consists primarily of deferred payment to employee shareholders, conditional upon their continued employment and other retention incentives.

These amounts will be paid over the course of several years after the acquisition closes, and will be recorded as expenses for accounting purposes. We expect about two-thirds of these deferred payments and other retention incentives to be expensed in the first two years after the acquisition closes.

More details about the Bungie acquisition. About 1/3rd of it is being considered as employment expenses.

So Sony reckons it has allocated 850bn yen in decided investments from its mid term plan, out of the >=2Tn yen planned.

[the-pi-guy]

Your first question regarding VR, PSVR2 access we have already explained users have that sense of imagine, so setup itself will be simplified and headset will be evolving and will be evolving the headsets and already this is announced. Evolution of headset 4K, 8R displays with a wider viewing angle and movement of the eye of the player is detected looking at certain direction then it's possible to manipulate so for rendering the high resolution for center of the view and external then lower resolution.

Found on Era

Seem like there are some translation issues, but in general they mention foveated rendering.

[the-pi-guy]

Dreams is one of the live service games.

[kitler53]

i don't think a game can quality for "live" if the game itself is dead....


and the wording was "launch".   so dreams is immediately disqualified has it has already launched.

[the-pi-guy]

i don't think a game can quality for "live" if the game itself is dead....


and the wording was "launch".   so dreams is immediately disqualified has it has already launched.

Hard to say, they might have more to launch.

Franchise Executive Producer | Media Molecule

We are looking for an Executive Producer to join the Studio Leadership team and run the Dreams Franchise.

We are looking for someone experienced in high quality delivery of multiplayer live service releases.

This is probably the real list of live service games though.

Sony announced they are working on 10 live service games.

I think I have 11 possibilities here:

Spoiler for Hidden:

• Factions?
• Gran Turismo 7
• Bungie's new IP
• Guerrilla's new MP project
• Firesprite's MP project
• Insomniac's MP project
• Deviation's MP project
• Firewalk's MP project
• Arrowhead's project
• London Studio's Project?
• Haven's project

A few of them might not be considered live service.

[kitler53]

i mean, i'm not disqualifying dreams as a live service.  i'm saying that sony stating they will launch 10 live services games by 2026 means 10 games + dreams + destiny + destruction all-stars....

10 launches on top of existing live service games.   that's how i read it at least.


...basically i'm saying i'm not sure if i'm a fan of playstation anymore............