I'm actually quite surprised with how ahead 2017 numbers are compared to last year. Last year everyone was thinking that 2016 would have been the peak.
It is also surprising that the success of Nintendo Switch doesn't seem to have a real impact on PS4. It is either stealing most sales from X1 or it is appealing to a different market. Maybe the Wii crowd just skipped the Wii U and now they are upgrading.
| Turkish said: I was thinking the same thing, a temporary price cut this holiday is possible, and then a permanent one to $199 once GoW launches around March. |
You could be right, but with great sales numbers I really think Sony could postpone the price cut until the next Black Friday. I'm still convinced that the reason why 2016 barely edged out 2015 was because Sony simply didn't want to cut the price. Profit > sales all day.
The last price cuts were also motived by an aggressive pricing from MS. This year the X1 is half dead, so there is way less pressure on them. The 500 bucks price tag on X1X also doesn't help. Unless MS goes super-aggressive with X1S (unlikely), Sony doesn't have to cut the price.
The Switch is also more expensive than the PS4 and constantly out of stock. Anyway, I'm not sure these consoles sell to the same demography and if they do it's likely that there's a lot of double console owners. It looks a lot like last gen, I saw an unusual amount of people owning 2 consoles (normally they would get a Wii followed by a PS360 some years down the road after price cuts, always playing both units).
Last edited by torok - on 30 October 2017
