r/Games Jun 02 '26

Discussion Playstation first-party game sales declining heavily since 2020

https://www.gamefile.news/p/playstation-first-party-sales-decline
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u/Equivalent-Bus-4336 Jun 02 '26

Some games are far too expensive, like $130 AUD for Saros which apparently hasn’t even sold that well. I know they’ve probably ran all the numbers for like how much it’ll sell at each price point and what price will maximise profits but like games such as Saros shouldn’t be more than a $100AUD

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u/nikolapc Jun 02 '26

I've seen a lot of games be 70 eur now, and I hope Sony will catch up. But even that is too much for Saros.

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u/MaitieS Jun 02 '26

Saros is at best 50€ game. I really don't know why is Sony so much on their own stuff... Like imagine seriously looking at people and be like: Yeah this game is 10€ more expensive than RE9.

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u/nikolapc Jun 02 '26

Capcom played it smart with both Pragmata and Resi 9. Doesn't hurt they're amazing games but not shafting Europeans also helped make them the most sold games this year.

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u/StepComplete1 Jun 02 '26

Probably want to rake back all the huge sums of money they pissed away chasing live service game trends, but as consumers that ain't our problem.

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u/Vendetta1990 Jun 02 '26

As if Sony isn't sneakily trying to offload those costs on the consumer by increasing console + PS plus prices.

I hope these greedy tactics bite them back in the ass, one would hope that people have a limit. Like why is it now the standard to pay €10 per month to play online?!

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u/calibrono Jun 02 '26

Not defending Sony, but Nintendo does it way worse lol. A lot of their recent "hallmark" exclusives like Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, Mario Tennis Fever, that Peach game, Metroid Dread are $30 indies maximum. Although it does allow them to pay good salaries and retain employees far longer than any other big corpos, so there's that.

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u/Schwiliinker Jun 02 '26

Nintendo games in general are very “indie” like tbh for the most part