Mat Piscatella of analyst firm Circana has revealed that the PS5 was the market leader in North America for both unit and dollar sales during not only March 2024, but the first quarter of the year as a whole.
Writing on Twitter, Piscatella revealed that spending for video game hardware in February 2024 dropped 32% in comparison to the same period last year, totalling $391 million. In addition, spending for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch each fell a minimum of 30% year-on-year.
Astro Bot will include over 150 PlayStation cameos, and will focus on delivering a single-player experience with no microtransactions.
A unique single player game with no MTX garbage? It’s almost as if we went back in time to when gaming was actually fun. Can’t wait to play it!
Sweeeeeeet. Stoked for this. Curious what the price point will be. I’m gunna guess $50.
"Video game publisher and developer Cygames, Inc. (HQ: Shibuya, Tokyo; President: Koichi Watanabe, hereinafter referred to as “Cygames”) has announced the third free major update coming to the action RPG Granblue Fantasy: Relink for PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, and Steam® on May 31." - Cygames, Inc.
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick claims that the Grand Theft Auto franchise is the no. 1 entertainment property of all-time across all forms of media, and cites the recent GTA 6 reveal trailer as proof.
I mean, GTA V has pretty much stayed in the top 10 for the past 3 generations, which is absolutely nuts.
This is North America only.
Somehow I doubt all of that spiel.
But PS5 and Switch still outsells XBOX embarrassingly even with overall consoles sales decline.
This is not surprising in the slightest. The song will continue to remain the same.
And in other news wet is water.