{"id":108059,"date":"2016-10-14T09:57:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T07:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=108059"},"modified":"2016-10-14T09:58:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T07:58:33","slug":"heres-why-the-playstation-4-pro-cant-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/108059-heres-why-the-playstation-4-pro-cant-fail","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s why the PlayStation 4 Pro can&#8217;t fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PlayStation Pro is vital to the success of Sony as a company.<\/p>\n<p>While the company has spent time skinning down its many other brands, PlayStation has only grown, reports <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/sony-dependent-playstation-why-hopeful-174713042.html\" target=\"_blank\">Business Insider<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This chart from Statista shows how just how critical PlayStation has become for Sony.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the last fiscal year, its gaming division led the company in revenue by a healthy margin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But even that doesn\u2019t quite tell the full story: In its last quarter, for instance, PlayStation <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/07\/28\/sonys-playstation-division-accounted-for-78-of-its-q1-2016-profits\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-rapid_p=\"5\">almost single-handedly<\/a><\/strong> carried the company to profits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That means the PS4 Pro as well as the simultaneously releasing PS VR needs to do well for Sony, otherwise the company could be in serious financial trouble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bussiness-Insider.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-108061\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bussiness-Insider.png\" alt=\"bussiness-insider\" width=\"650\" height=\"487\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Now read: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/107233-ps4-pro-ps-vr-and-ps4-slim-launch-date-and-south-african-pricing-revealed.html\" target=\"_blank\">PS4 Pro, PS VR, and PS4 Slim launch date and South African pricing revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony could be in big trouble if its new hardware fails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":103711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[31,19865,16735,22567],"class_list":["post-108059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-graph","tag-ps-vr","tag-ps4-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108069,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108059\/revisions\/108069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}