That we are getting some big PC releases this year.
Notice that this graph has percentages, not amount of games.
Also, excluding Bungie games and potentially maybe some other GaaS exception, all PC releases will be ports of old games.
To expect almost double revenue on pc this year. I would say they will release at least 6 more games on pc this year.
You also have to consider that Returnal and TLOUP1 were released just at the end of the previous fiscal year, so will have most of their sales in the current fiscal year.
Also, pretty likely this year several of the previous games -released with expensive price- will get juicy discounts.
Sony are rolling along moneywise with the PS5 right now. However, this push for Live service games and it being prioritized over the traditional SP games down the line that has made Playstation unique will be its downfall imo. Jim putting their games on PC and now this live service push are what MS has been doing since last gen. Funny that he is now adopting the same tactics. He is riding the wave of success from PS4 onto the PS5 but decisions like these will eventually catch up and lose the hardcore fans who have always loved Playstation for their SP games. Hopefully it is an experiment that will not do well and make Jim realize don’t try and fix something that isn’t broken. Especially when it has been doing so well as Playstation has done each generation. I may be wrong but I don’t like his vision for 2025 and his live service push for Playstation. I for one will not support live service games pushed by Playstation and instead continue to buy and support their amazing SP games. Gamers should speak with their wallets when companies try to push this shite on them. Hopefully if enough people do it will make Jimbo realize live service was a bad idea and just keep making SP story driven games. Let the third party devs experiment with live service rubbish. Keep Playstation unique.
You're wrong.
They won't decrease their investment in traditional non GaaS games. The oposite, they'll increase their investment in non-GaaS games. Their investment growth in GaaS, PC and mobile is done on top of investing more than ever before in non-GaaS PS5 games:
But they must grow in GaaS: notice how the revenue from digital and specially physical game sales are decreasing, while it's highly increasing the add-ons (dlc/mtx/passes) mostly due to GaaS:
This means they must invest in GaaS to keep being relevant and growing, because if not their 1st party revenue would decrease, while the development and marketing costs keep skyrocketing generation after generation.
The console market also gets stagnant, so to continue growing, in addition to grow in console they should also grow in PC and specially mobile:
Jimbo is investing in more of everything. He's investing also in having more sequels than before, and in having more new IP than before: