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loy310 said:
PAOerfulone said:

Now that we're halfway through the year, let's do some math.

At this point last year, the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch sold through 38.9812223%, 32.06302907%, and 29.71417668% of their final 2018 totals respectively.
If those same percentages hold for this year, these would be the projected final yearly totals for all three systems in 2019:

PlayStation 4 - 13,444,532
Xbox One - 4,922,161
Nintendo Switch - 20,424,830

Sony needs to give the PS4 a price cut NOW! RIGHT NOW! There's nothing Microsoft can do for the Xbox One that will make it's situation any better. And the Switch Lite just threw a monkey wrench into how the Switch will turn out, there's no telling at the moment if it'll be lower or higher than the number I have projected here, that's the most interesting thing to watch for.

Why cut price to keep up with the switch this late in the gen? They gonna break 100+ million regardless and they better off making the extra revenue at the higher price while still selling reasonable well with all the competition.

This is not for them to keep up with the Switch. This is to match their sales prediction of 16M for this year. They sold 18M last year, so they're allowed to loose 2M compared to then. But now, after just half a year, that gap is already close to 1.8M, so almost all of the buffer has been eaten up. In other words, the PS4 needs a pricecut not to compete with the Switch, but to keep up with it's sales from last year to match their own sales target.