Rumor: PS5 announcement coming mid 2019 and more info at PSX 2019

[Keiji]

The_Liquid_Laser said:

A very similar situation happened with the SNES and PS1.  The SNES outsold the PS1, when it was first released.  Here let's take what you just said and see if it applies to the SNES, PS1 and N64.

"Also why is the N64 in direct competition (with PS1) if the SNES is not?  What is going to make the N64 appeal to the same people as the PS1, while the SNES appeals to a different group.  I very much doubt the N64 is going to be different from the SNES in any major way, it's just going to be the same thing with more power.

PS1 is not going to eat into N64 sales, just as it hasn't eaten into SNES sales."

I'm sorry but what are you talking about ? SNES sold 49.10M. PS1 sold 104.25M.

Perhaps there is joke or a metaphor somewhere I didn't get since english isn't my first language.