Offical Sell-in numbers for PS3 - credit to ArmGunar.

[DonFerrari]

Eagle367 said:

DonFerrari said:

It was asked why PS3 is considered a bigger money loser, that is the explication.

And for the Switch, you can be sure most of the sales come from the HH folks. Besides Wii that had the blue ocean new market since SNES no console from Nintendo had sold more than 40M.

So the people buying Switch aren't doing it because they loved WiiU (well even if they did, that wouldn't be more than 15M of Switch sales).

And? I never said people are buying the switch because they loved Wii U. You said that people were buying the PS4 because they loved PS3 and I'm just pointing out the previous gen really doesn't matter all that much. The people are buying the PS4 and switch because of their own merits and not their predecessors good and bad points. My question was more of a statement rather than a question in what sort of business decisions was Sony making at the time. It was a stupid decision

But you fail to see that a lot of early adopters of PS4 came from PS3 end days being good.