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VAMatt on 08 December 2018
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Keiji said:
VAMatt said:

The other wild card this generation is how many people double dipped due to the kid generation upgrades.  On one hand, units sold are units sold.  On the other hand, if we're trying to measure the relative popularity of a system, double dipping muddies the waters.  

Can you write in more simplistic way so my small french brain could understand ?

Sorry, there's a typo in there that probably contributes to the confusion.   So....

Because of the PS4 Pro and Xbox one X coming in the middle of the generation, some portion of the consoles sold were sold to people that already owned the original version each of those consoles. So, 80 million PS4 sold does not mean 80 million different people purchased PS4s. Several million of those are people that bought more than one.

I was mentioning this in relation to the Xbox 360 replacement comment. Certainly, the Xbox 360 numbers were inflated to some degree (moreso thantusual) by people replacing their broken systems.  I think the mid generation upgrades have a similar effect on sales numbers in this generation.  I just don't know to what extent.