this post was submitted on 16 May 2024
61 points (96.9% liked)

Games

16944 readers
605 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
61
PlayStation's Focus Has Shifted From Game Sales to Actual Play Time, Sony Says (www.playstationlifestyle.net)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
14 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 14 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 84 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Translation: ad impressions, microtransactions, and Skinner box tactics.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh.

Well here was me clicking on this thread thinking "oh! That seems like a positive shift in mentality"

Then I read your comment.

Was a fun 3 seconds

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

wish i could super upvote

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You can always press the button twice

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Twice does nothing, but thrice works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Liked your comment so much I just did it there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And forcing the PlayStation Plus subscription.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I was gonna say they'd make all their single-player games open world bursting with "CONTENT" like an Ubisoft game, but they kinda already did around the end of last gen

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So basically they have had really bad sales lately and this is how they justify it to their shareholders.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago

Or the movement to microtransactions means prolonged time playing will lead to more income, whereas number of sales is completed.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"play time"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_revenue_per_user

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I love that this is pronounced Arr Poo (ARPU)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Everyone's fighting over our poo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

And today I love a stranger. Wonderful!