bluedawgs on 05 January 2017
| JWeinCom said: It's rather unlikely that the PS4 will be up YOY. This year saw a hardware revision, price cuts and bundles, a major new peripheral, and an entirely new model. Software lineup for 2017 is more or less similar to 2016. Red Dead is the only thing that's bigger than the stuff they had last year. With all that in mind, sales were essentially flat. Moreover, there's just a point of diminishing returns. The more people that have a PS4, the less people there are to buy one. Unless there is something major, and by major I don't mean a sequel to a game that appeals to their already established market, sales are going to start declining. To combine that, we have Scorpio and Switch. Scorpio is a pretty direct competitor, especially among people who may be upgrading specifically because they're buying a new 4K TV. Switch isn't as direct of a competitor, but there is still a very sizeable overlap. There are a lot of kids and young teens with a PS4, and a lot of the casual yearly madden types of players who could wind up with a Switch. I can't say for sure whether the Switch will compete in a real way for at least another week, but people who don't think casual appeal is part of the PS4's success are very wrong. I don't mean to downplay the PS4's success, because it's obviously doing very well, but people are expecting a really unrealistic sales curve. Without a Kinect like situation, there's no reason to think the PS4 will be up at all YOY, and certainly not big time. We've likely seen the peak already. |
Why do you mention a peripheral (VR) as a reason PS4 should have done better? it just released in October, it just began its lifecycle. If its gonna sell any consoles it will do it this year or next year lol
