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The Bing Star Bonus is upto 2100 and you get it based on genuine searches. If Bing is set as your default search engine then it's basically just a free 2100 points a month.

As said above, with GPU the points potential must be closer to 20k a month as I get 10k from doing practically nothing but checking in every day, daily sets and default search engine set.

I have 138, 801 but I sold my Series X after the GPU price hike and now I have no idea what to use them for…

@Banjo- I’m not exactly sure what you’re saying, but I wouldn’t consider a game like Horizon: Zero Dawn to be a failure on PC. It was more a modest success. It is Sony that was evidently not content with modest successes.

I was all for porting all first party games to PC, I thought it as great for more people to play these games. I understand the decision to reverse path though, as profits from the PS ecosystem have increased by a large amount since the porting began.

I hope one day they will try ports again, and hopefully the PC market will be more receptive to a broader range of games, as it’s still quite dominated by certain genres, and especially cheap multiplayer games(because of the Asian market).

@Banjo- Sony had plenty of successful games. They weren’t exactly betting their house on Sons of Sparta and the yearly MLB game(and almost 1m sales of MLB is great)

God of War: Ragnarok - 15m in 12 months(doesn’t include PC)
Helldivers 2 - 20m+
Gran Turismo 7 - 14m+
Spider-man 2 - 16m+
Horizon: Forbidden West - 8.6m in 14 months(doesn’t include PC)
Ghost of Yotei - 3.3m in one month
Spider-man: Miles Morales - 14.4m by June 2023

Microsoft have released exactly one successful games this gen by these standards

Obsidian won’t get shut down but I do worry about the fact Grounded makes more money than their RPGs…

@LostInBlue0 Independence requires funding, which is absurdly hard to get right now

@Banjo- Sony don’t give official sales numbers very often, so most are years out of date. Only when you get things like the Insomniac leak do we see real numbers. Bloodborne was officially listed at 1m copies for years until a leak showed it sold 7.5m copies.

They said the games aren’t sustainable so they could justify price increases and porting to PC. PlayStation reported their highest ever net profit in FY 2024, then broke the record in FY25. In the current FY year they are forecasting breaking the record again by almost 50% more. Don’t believe everything a giant corporation tells you.

@Banjo-

The reason why Sony-published Helldivers 2 and most of Sony's games don't do that great on PS5 is simply because the best-selling games are Call of Duty, EA Sports, etc

Sony’s big games sell in huge numbers. God of War Ragnarok sold 11m units in 3 months and is likely over 20m. Spider-man 2 sold 5m in 11 days and was estimated over 16m last year. Miles Morales was at 14.4m in June 2023. GT7 is estimated over 14m units. Ghost of Tsushima was over 14m 2 years ago.

God of War, Uncharted 4, Horizon Zero Dawn, The last of us, Spider-man are all over 20m units.

@Sol4ris What exactly are you trying to say? That you feel my comment is banworthy? That you feel like anyone who is unhappy with the current Xbox performance must be someone who signs up to troll?

I will attempt to appease you in the future by only saying positive things about Asha.

Asha now pandering to randoms on Twitter. Im sure this is stellar plan.

Sold my Series X in March when I moved house. Right before they reduced the Gamepass price, which probably would have been enough for me to stick around a bit longer, but it is what it is. No regrets, really. One of the things bout primarily playing games through a sub service is that you can easily move on since you aren’t losing any digital library in the process.

The people expecting mass exclusives are really just setting themselves up for disappointment.

@Sol4ris It’s a confirmation of their sole reason for existing: to enrich shareholders and make as much money as possible.

That’s why all business exist. It’s literally in their memorandum of association.

@fatpunkslim

No matter how you look at it, this is a financial loss for PlayStation, especially in a home‑console market that has been flat for years

The market is not flat in regards to net profit, the only thing that companies actually care about.

PlayStation Net Profit as reported in their official accounts for the past 15 years:

(Millions of Yen)
FY11 - 29,300
FY12 - 1,700
FY13 - (18,800)
FY14 - 48,100
FY15 - 88,700
FY16 - 135,553
FY17 - 177,478
FY18 - 311,092
FY19 - 238,400
FY20 - 342,192
FY21 - 346,089
FY22 - 250,006
FY23 - 290,184
FY24 - 414,819
FY25 - 463,258
FY26 - 600,000 (Projected)

@fatpunkslim

As a consequence of all this, PlayStation is losing money

Except they’re making more money than ever. The PS5 generation had made more profit than every previous PS generation combined. They are predicting a ¥600b net profit this financial year, which would be by far the highest in their history and only ¥40b yen behind the record Switch year when the pandemic hit and they sold almost 30m consoles. Sony normally exceed their profit targets by more than 10% so it’s very likely to be the most profitable year in the entire history of the video games industry.

Digital games make more money than physical. DLC makes obscene amount of money, more than total software sales. PS plus generates $5b a year as a super high margin item, and they don’t even need to put their own games on it for years.

Your entire comment seems to be based on a fundamental misunderstanding of reality.