PlayStation 5 sales

[Ryng]

Angelv577 said:

Ryng_Tolu said:

But that's the reason... "every PS console sold more than 80m" maybe because the PS under 80m is not yet released!

The example what about every console before the PS3 sold more than 100m because the PS3 was not coming... then, we have the dropped of Sony minimum sales.

PS1 100m -------> PS3 80m

So, how you know the next gen can be for example 80m -----> 70m? 60m? 50m?

 

And for the firsts, we can't say that the PS console are not similar, because 100m to 150m is a 50% up, then 150m to 90m is a 40% dropped, then PS4 can be up to PS3 by 0% to 50%...

But that's the point, there was a declining to 80m from ps1 to ps3 thus thinking that ps4 might hit less than 80m was reasonable because there was an expected decline due to the new popularity of xbox but now that ps4 has been on the market for more than one year and a half showing that it's on pace to outsell ps3 and that it has managed to regain that marketshare lost from last gen , we can't no longer think that ps consoles are in declining and thus the minimum so far will be 80m.  Can the next home console sell less than 80m, of course it can but right now, there is no history indication that that will be the case.  If you want to believe that it will sell less than 80m, I will see it more as a wishful thinking than a analytical prediction.

For the last sentence, all I see is this

PS1: 100+m

ps2: 150m

ps3: 80m+

ps4: expected 80+ to 100m

All I see is when sony screwed up big time, they managed to sell over 80m but less than 100m.  As long as they do thinks right, they are much closer to 100m.

I go to sleep, so, this is probabily the lasy response today.

Any way.

Make some consideration...

PS3: bad launch, 600$/€, problem with online, problem with the graphics, strong competition from Ninty and MS, many other problems

PS4: super strong launch, hype, 400$/€, better hardware (and this time graphics), badly competition from Ninty and MS...

And still, in lifetime sales, is going to sell equal or barely more than PS3...

 

now, if the PS4 have the PS3 problem, or even half of that, do you think the PS4 was going to sell 80 to 100m lifetime?