In the original film, Norman Osborn gained his enhanced strength and dangerous insanity from a scientific experiment gone wrong. The actor originally played Spider-Man’s greatest foe in 2002 opposite Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker. “The battle between local and cloud is beginning," said Goldman’s Sugiyama.A new poster for Spider-Man: No Way Home has given fans another look at the return of Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin, this time without his original metallic mask. CEO Yoshida recently told the Financial Times that the PS4’s successor will be a physical device. After rolling out its PlayStation Now platform in 2014, the online service has mostly failed to gain traction, with gamers complaining about spotty performance. Given that cloud gaming has been one of Sony’s weak points, it’s more likely that the company will continue to focus on hardware or look to tie-up with Amazon, which has yet to announce its cloud gaming offering. “If I already have a ton of games linked to my account with all my trophies and saves, the last thing I want is to abandon it all and move to another platform," said Damian Thong, an analyst at Macquarie Group Ltd. That will create a smoother transition, helping to keep gamers within Sony’s ecosystem and away from cloud-gaming rivals.
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One thing that gaming analysts and experts agree on is that the next-generation console will probably be backward-compatible, meaning users will be able to play PS4 games, and vice-versa. Sony has yet to set a date for what will presumably be called the PlayStation 5. The big question is whether PS4’s successor will be designed to embrace cloud gaming, include handheld gaming, move deeper into virtual and augmented reality - or all of the above. With more room to lower prices and add to the PS4 user base, Sony is well positioned to bolster profitability through 2021, according to Atul Goyal, an analyst at Jefferies. Sony has cut the price of its flagship console by just 25% since 2013, compared with reductions of at least 50% seen for previous consoles at the same point in their life cycle.
Game titles, which typically make up 80% of the industry’s total revenue, are key to the PS4’s longevity. Even its virtual-reality business is getting a boost from this month’s critically-acclaimed Astro Bot. The PS4’s dominance over Xbox One means most gamers will buy and play blockbuster titles such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 on Sony’s console. Last month’s PS4 exclusive title Spider-Man, which set company sales records, will provide the largest contribution to profit growth when Chief Executive Officer Ken Yoshida reports quarterly results on 30 October, analysts say.įor the upcoming holiday quarter, the PlayStation 4 boasts its strongest video-game lineup in years. Analysts estimate the company is on-track to post operating profit of 790 billion yen ($7 billion) in the current fiscal year.
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From next year, the software maker’s Project xCloud will use the company’s global cloud network Azure to stream and play high-end games, on “any device." Early impressions of Google’s Project Stream have been favourable, with users saying that the experience comes close to playing on a console or personal computer - without the need to actually own one.įor now, Sony’s dominance in consoles - 84 million PS4s versus 39 million for Xbox One - is paying off. “Until now Microsoft was the only rival, but with Google and Amazon moving in, it’s going to become tougher to stand apart."
“Within PlayStation’s history, this will be the most robust holiday quarter ever," said Masaru Sugiyama, an analyst at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.