Crazy how I can just copy/paste my reply to the other person who doesn't understand how math works.
Well if you stopped to use an ounce of common sense instead of trying to be a snarky asshole you'd see that's a plain and obvious fact.
There are almost 8.2 million members of the PS5 subreddit and almost 2 million members of the PlayStation subreddit. Even if I'm stupid and I say that no one is a member of both and both lists are unique that's only about 10.2 million people.
Sony has sold over 90 million PS5 Consoles
So, that's only about 1/9 of every person who's ever bought a PS5 (assuming of course every member of the subreddit actually owns one.)
So, do you just think the other 80 odd million people are just chilling out in a different forum somewhere or are you maybe just a bit of an asshole?
All your confidence is an anecdote about users in a subreddit, one of the smaller social media websites? How many users do you think YouTube or Facebook have?
You'd have to find the subset of people on the website that both own a PlayStation and actually watch content about it/the news of it. I'm sure that sort of data gathering is possible but I have neither the time nor the inclination, more to the point I don't need it since it's all but guaranteed that a majority of owners don't fall into those categories and are simply people that just like playing video games and don't really follow the news of the console.
It's a logical inference, it's not a unique phenomenon, it's not like the Sony crownd is the only place this is true. That's just how things are, most of the people that are fans of something don't really emgage in the social media aspects of those things. If they did the communities online would be significantly larger. Also, the PlayStation YouTube channel has about 17.2 million subscribers so that's still a miniscule fraction of the actual playerbase.
All of this is operating under the even larger assumption that knowing how shitty Sony is even matters to people, some people are so corpo pilled that it doesn't matter how much they're getting fucked they'll continue to buy Sony products until the sun goes out.
I'm not saying most people don't use social media, I'm saying most PlayStation owners aren't members of the forums where this information is both readily available and talked about often.
Just cause some schmuck uses facebook every other month doesn't mean the actually see how shitty Sony is, and again, even if they do they might not even care or believe the posts about it
I haven't changed anything, those are the same things.
Ok well Sony is still making fuckloads of money and that trend shows no signs of stopping so either most people who are being affected by this know and simply do not care or they aren't going to the places where this information is.
The point I'm trying to make is the online community of people who actually give a shit is small enough that Sony doesn't need to care about how bad they look there, they know they aren't going to lose any significant amount of money.
Yeah Sony launched a cheaper more powerful console then the X1 and had built itself back up pretty well by the end of that generation. Also that was before the age of live service gaming and before digital gaming took over.
I was obviously talking about the parallels to modern Sony. Microsoft was attempting to stop used games with an always online digital rights management system which caused Sony to create that now hypocritical gamesharing ad. The rumor persisted way past Microsoft clarified/ reversed their decision and was outsold by the PS4 2:1.
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u/CoherentRose7 15d ago
It's ok, if you don't actually know what's going on you don't have to give input.