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Sony - PlayStation 5 (PS5), PlayStation 4 (PS4), PS Vita, and PlayStation 3 (PS3) / Re: Sony - Physical disc produ...
Last post by targetrasp - Today at 03:50:16 PMaccording to @retro junkie 's video, big hitters for the PlayStation revenue are 20 - 30% physical. I actually thought physical would make up for more than that. Still, if a portion of that 20 - 30% decide they're not buying a console because of the decision to go completely digital and another portion of that 70 - 80% digital buyers decide the price of entry is too steep, we'll have some decent fall off.
You'd think Sony would learn from their past. Monkey with the price, or do something consumers don't like...
ps one sold 102 mil units, ps2 (backward compatible, physical, priced same as last generation) sold 160 mil units. ps3 (200 - 300 dollar price hike, backwards compatibility was iffy) sold 87.4 million units. ps4 (better launch price only 100 dollars higher than ps1 and ps2, brought back ability to play older titles via internal emulator and online offerings as well as fantastic amounts of rehashes) sells 117.2 mil units. ps5 is currently at 93.7 million units and still has some time to get those numbers up before its time is over. It may not overtake the ps4 in sales numbers and despite the ps4 backwards compatibility, I think price, availability and just the massive footprint stifled numbers enough to cause the dip.
counter argument - sonly claims making 107 bil in total sales for the ps4 era, while already hitting 136 bil on ps5. That's more money in 3 years of ps5 vs the 7 ps4 had. From this perspective it sounds like solid business but personally I think maxing out your customer base by draining them dry all the while cutting out a "lesser desirable" portion will wind up hurting the company in the long run.
I've always thought cutting off customers to maximize revenue is bad practice at least in the long term. Reputational damage is a real thing and new customers cost 5 - 10x more to acquire vs. who you've already got. Theres so many intangibles a bigger installed customer base brings to the table outside of short-term revenues. I think they'll min max themselves into oblivion.
You'd think Sony would learn from their past. Monkey with the price, or do something consumers don't like...
ps one sold 102 mil units, ps2 (backward compatible, physical, priced same as last generation) sold 160 mil units. ps3 (200 - 300 dollar price hike, backwards compatibility was iffy) sold 87.4 million units. ps4 (better launch price only 100 dollars higher than ps1 and ps2, brought back ability to play older titles via internal emulator and online offerings as well as fantastic amounts of rehashes) sells 117.2 mil units. ps5 is currently at 93.7 million units and still has some time to get those numbers up before its time is over. It may not overtake the ps4 in sales numbers and despite the ps4 backwards compatibility, I think price, availability and just the massive footprint stifled numbers enough to cause the dip.
counter argument - sonly claims making 107 bil in total sales for the ps4 era, while already hitting 136 bil on ps5. That's more money in 3 years of ps5 vs the 7 ps4 had. From this perspective it sounds like solid business but personally I think maxing out your customer base by draining them dry all the while cutting out a "lesser desirable" portion will wind up hurting the company in the long run.
I've always thought cutting off customers to maximize revenue is bad practice at least in the long term. Reputational damage is a real thing and new customers cost 5 - 10x more to acquire vs. who you've already got. Theres so many intangibles a bigger installed customer base brings to the table outside of short-term revenues. I think they'll min max themselves into oblivion.
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Sony - PlayStation 5 (PS5), PlayStation 4 (PS4), PS Vita, and PlayStation 3 (PS3) / Re: Sony - Physical disc produ...
Last post by retro junkie - Today at 02:44:18 PMhmmmmm...............interesting.............
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General Discussion / Re: Happy 4th of July - 2026
Last post by targetrasp - Today at 09:53:24 AMA group of friends were off on Friday so we got together Thursday night and played Abyssus and Tape to Tape. A few days later I got to play Brotato with BV, Bomberman and my son. Nice little holiday overall.
Abyssus is a co-op roguelike FPS, that structures its runs kinda like Hades. In theory it seemed awesome but the game was really stingy with rewards. Because of such we didn't get very far compared to the amount of time we've spent playing. It really made the levels and enemies too similar. You've gotta unlock guns as well, and you really only start with one. The two guns we managed to unlock weren't as fun to play with as the starting weapon, and the shotgun in particular felt worthless against half the foes. The game was more stick than carrot.
Tape to Tape has been in our rotation since its release. It's one of those that's been in beta since I can remember but the devs have kept tweaking the game. It's a roguelike arcade hockey game with tons of abilities, players, and upgrades. The path branches, the teams you play aren't always the same, and the difficulty scales well. This one will likely stay in the rotation for a long time.
Abyssus is a co-op roguelike FPS, that structures its runs kinda like Hades. In theory it seemed awesome but the game was really stingy with rewards. Because of such we didn't get very far compared to the amount of time we've spent playing. It really made the levels and enemies too similar. You've gotta unlock guns as well, and you really only start with one. The two guns we managed to unlock weren't as fun to play with as the starting weapon, and the shotgun in particular felt worthless against half the foes. The game was more stick than carrot.
Tape to Tape has been in our rotation since its release. It's one of those that's been in beta since I can remember but the devs have kept tweaking the game. It's a roguelike arcade hockey game with tons of abilities, players, and upgrades. The path branches, the teams you play aren't always the same, and the difficulty scales well. This one will likely stay in the rotation for a long time.
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General Discussion / Re: Project Hail Mary
Last post by BLUEVOODU - Today at 09:52:42 AMNice @targetrasp - yeah ... we ended up pre-ordering the 4K as well. It took a long time for them to get the physic offering added to Amazon for pre-order
Now... I have not read the book. So my review is based on movie only. Unfortunately for me, the details missed between the 2 versions are not known.
Pre-order affiliate link: https://amzn.to/4fiFlE5
Physical version launches August 11, 2026
This will be offered in DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K Blu-Ray. I'll try to post up an official pre-order topic.
Now... I have not read the book. So my review is based on movie only. Unfortunately for me, the details missed between the 2 versions are not known.
Pre-order affiliate link: https://amzn.to/4fiFlE5
Physical version launches August 11, 2026
This will be offered in DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K Blu-Ray. I'll try to post up an official pre-order topic.
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General Discussion / Re: Project Hail Mary
Last post by targetrasp - Today at 09:33:16 AMYou can stream the movie on prime now. Finally watched it this weekend and I can't say it disappointed. The movie did gloss over a lot of the scientific details the book expanded upon but it was pretty faithful overall. The few liberties the movie took were small and insignificant to the overall plot, and really just helped pacing and add a bit of drama.
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CDG Game Nights / Meet-ups / Re: 4 Player Brotato 07-04-26
Last post by targetrasp - Today at 09:24:33 AM@BLUEVOODU @Bomberman - Had a blast, now if I can just get PC to join CDG
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Retro Gaming and Hardware / Re: Genesis 2025 Shmup ZPF
Last post by BLUEVOODU - Today at 09:20:40 AM@retro junkie - great post on this. ZPf and the color scheme looks incredibly trippy lol 
the 2nd screenshot you provided with the crazy yellow, green, blue, pink and orange schemes... that looks like a crazy trip on the eyes lol.
This game looks pretty awesome though. And that was the 1 thing that bothered me as a kid on many games - not saving high score like the arcades. I didn't understand exactly why at the time.
I would like to try ZPF... and thought I probably won't get the chance to do so. However, it appears to be on Steam for $10. ZPF was released April 2026
Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3095410/ZPF/
I am going to put this on my wish list for a sale. It's single player and also supports Steam Achievements
Great review, retro. I dig reading these
the 2nd screenshot you provided with the crazy yellow, green, blue, pink and orange schemes... that looks like a crazy trip on the eyes lol. This game looks pretty awesome though. And that was the 1 thing that bothered me as a kid on many games - not saving high score like the arcades. I didn't understand exactly why at the time.
I would like to try ZPF... and thought I probably won't get the chance to do so. However, it appears to be on Steam for $10. ZPF was released April 2026
Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3095410/ZPF/
I am going to put this on my wish list for a sale. It's single player and also supports Steam Achievements
Great review, retro. I dig reading these
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Retro Gaming and Hardware / Re: BOOM!! RARE Super Pocket !...
Last post by BLUEVOODU - Today at 09:01:22 AMAlso - another note, I didn't realize RC Pro Am was made by RARE... or I forgot. That's pretty cool
@retro junkie or anyone else, did you pick one up?
@retro junkie or anyone else, did you pick one up?
#9
General Discussion / Happy 4th of July - 2026
Last post by BLUEVOODU - Today at 08:17:08 AMA day late, however, Happy 4th of July to everyone. I hope it was an awesome day.
Did you get any gaming in or celebrate in other ways?
Did you get any gaming in or celebrate in other ways?
#10
CDG Game Nights / Meet-ups / 4 Player Brotato 07-04-26
Last post by BLUEVOODU - July 04, 2026, 05:35:12 PM@targetrasp @Bomberman PCHeadonfire and myself were able to get in a 4 player Brotato session for a couple hours.
One piece of advice... don't take the bait LOL. There's a character called the fisherman who has -100% for the price of bait. If you buy the bait, you get an awesome amount of damage (and you can buy as much bait as you technically want). For each bait bought, you get a ton of special enemies at the start of the next round that pretty much bullet hell you. 
Rough but it was fun
This was a great session - hope to do it again soon
One piece of advice... don't take the bait LOL.
There's a character called the fisherman who has -100% for the price of bait. If you buy the bait, you get an awesome amount of damage (and you can buy as much bait as you technically want). For each bait bought, you get a ton of special enemies at the start of the next round that pretty much bullet hell you. Rough but it was funThis was a great session - hope to do it again soon