PlayStation Was The Top Selling Home Console In The World For The 8th Year In A Row!

[The_Liquid_Laser]

thismeintiel said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Do you have a link to this info?  How reputable would you consider the source?

In Japan Nintendo has a much stronger brand than Playstation.  In North America, XBox, Playstation, and Nintendo all have a fairly strong presense, with the edge going to Nintendo mostly because of their handhelds.  It's only in Europe where Playstation has the strongest brand.

Now, the leaked product code may not be true.  But, it's easy to speculate what is going into the PS5.  A Ryzen CPU is the only option they have, as they are sticking with AMD, and a Sony coder was cleaning up and improving code for Ryzen.  The only question is how many cores will it have (I'm pretty confident they will go with 8, just like the PS4 has) and will it be Ryzen+ or Ryzen 2.  Forbes reported on the BTS drama concerning the development of Vega, with AMD focusing heavily on Navi because they are getting it ready for the PS5.  Considering the X already has 12GB of RAM, it's also easy to see that the PS5 will have at least 16GB.  Like I said, GDDR6 would be the obvious choice for the type used.

As for your reply to GOWTLOZ, you're forgetting something important, and that's ROW.  PS has a much larger presence there than Nintendo.  Nintendo also doesn't always get the edge in NA.  And if Xbox continues to drop in NA next gen, you can bet that PS will be there to pick that missing marketshare back up.  As many have pointed out to you, the Switch will most likely start to decline in 2020, 2021 at the latest.  2021 is when sales of the PS5 will be hitting its stride, and Nintendo will be getting ready for new HW in the next year or two.  So, no, Nintendo will not claim the next 4 years.

Thanks.  This is useful.   It gives at least something.

I am not sure if there is enough there to determine what the launch price of the PS5 will be though, which is a much more important detail.  Will it be $399 or $499?  I could see them going either way.  Also, I am still waiting to see if they keep it a vanilla console or bundle in something like a VR headset.  That could drive up the price even more.  And knowing what games it will have during the first year is also very important.  These things I've said in this paragraph are even more important than knowing the system specs.  That will actually give an idea of how well the console will do.

That is why I say, it is too early to predict a PS5 victory in say, 2021.  It is also too early to say whether or not it will even sell better than the next XBox.  We still know very little about the most relevant details for either console.