Wow, is it really possible to be this blindly biased? Or is it ignorance? It also seems like people think the Wii did something impossible. Every PS console has sold more than the Wii. Well, all but the PS3. But even though that console had EVERYTHING working against it, a $200 price difference from the 360 and worst multiplats for the first couple years, it only sold ~14M less than the mighty Wii. That's just how strong the PS brand is.
The fact is Sony predicted 18M for this fiscal year because they know that's the least they can pull off. They're already starting stating 78M like it's a done deal. Personally, I see them being flat YOY, with the most they are down is 500K. They are already up YOY in the US and Japan. Wouldn't be surprised if it's up YOY in EU, too. Even if we go with Sony's number, that puts it at 78M. For the next fiscal year, which ends March 2019, if we go with the same 2M decline, it puts the PS4 at 94M. Even if the PS5 is out at the tail end of 2019 and causes the PS4 to decline 4M YOY for the next fiscal year, the PS4 will be at 106M and at that point it is done.
And even if it's a little lower for some of those years, the PS4 is going to stay on market for at least two years after the PS5 launches. It'll have a whole other year to make up for it.
