Sony’s investor presentation reflects that the production of video games for PS4 will last until 2025, although the numbers for the console are positive.
Times change and priorities too, or at least that’s the feeling given by the ad you published Sony in his presentation for investors, in which he reflects his desire not to continue with the production of video games for Playstation 4 in 2025.
PS4 it went on sale in 2013, almost a decade ago, and still the console of Sony To this day, it continues with its legacy and monetarily yielding to the Japanese company. According to the report presented, the console represented the 65% of profits collected on PS Store after isolation, and it is not the only digit that the pandemic affected.
In turn, they show an increase in the investment made by users in deliveries free-to-play. Fortnite, Apex Legends, Genshin Impact and Rocket League are the main games to raise money, given that the percentage of investment in 2021 was one 25%when in 2016 it was only one 5%.
As a curiosity, we are going to highlight a trend that has grown in recent years, influenced by the events of the pandemic: the transition from physical to digital games. Thanks to advances in Internetthe greater storage capacity of the consoles and the will of the clients, the digital games they represented the 80% of sales in 2021.
Subscriptions are also in favor of PS4the 69% of users who pay for the service Sony Y playstation plus have as their main console the fourth edition of PS. Now, if it is so good and profitable PS4 for Sony, Why do you want to leave her behind?
Although we do not have the exact answer, we believe that it has to happen for a simple reason and it is the same that we saw in previous cases: pass the legacy on to the next console. Perhaps the transition that affected most gamers of recent generations was the passage of PS3 to PS4as well as the end of productions for the third console of Sony.
Despite the bad news for lovers of PS4there are still 3 years of production left, where titles like Elden Ring, FIFA Y Horizon: Forbidden West to both consoles. Do you have or did you have one? Playstation 4? What was your experience with the product? Sony?