re: Are we going to talk about Sony laying off people?

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Is there a way to determine what percentage of sales were expected in the US in that same time frame and if that contributed to the lack of overall sales as a whole? If so, then I would say fair game.

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Looks like the entirety of North America accounts for 39% of total PS5 sales since release. Looks like the US accounts for roughly 80% of NA sales, so the US likely accounts for about 31% of total PS5 sales. With the US being a very wealthy market, we tend to be early adopters on the tech curve with less developed countries lagging behind.

Considering that projected worldwide sales numbers appear to have been revised down something like 20%, no, it’s not really reasonable to blame any one country, including the US, unless someone out there has data showing that the US only purchased something along the lines of 20% of expected sales, which is just outlandish.

The PS5 just isn’t a must have console. Especially with the rise of powerful handheld consoles like the Steamdeck, Sony needs to do something to right the ship, asap.

And because we’re not on the PT, I’ll refrain from going into any detail into just how comical it is to me that people seem to utterly abrogate any responsibility their favored prior presidents have in causing our current inflationary environment with their own massive deficit spending and artificially depressed interest rates.