Hiku said:
Some very interesting info here. Looks like PS4 is on track to be the second best selling home console of all time, within the next few months.
colafitte said:
But the biggest milestone and the one that is going to be difficult to surpass by any other console is the "Fastest console to reach 100M shipped". Faster than Wii and PS2....., without any official and definitve price cuts in recent years.....That's super impressive. |
That is really impressive.
Although I don't think it will get even close to PS2, unless they do a significant price drop.
Barkley said:
For comparison this is what other PlayStation consoles shipped after the successor launched:
PS1 - ~29m
PS2 - ~48m
PS3 - 7m
So while the likely 38m it would need to ship after PS5 launches isn't unheard of, I really don't think it can do it. I'll be pleasantly surprised if it manages half of that post-ps5.
A lot of it does depend on the strategy Sony go for I guess.
Just to add onto this with adjusted for inflation prices:
PS1 - $69
PS2 - $118
PS3 - $300
So the PS3 at it's cheapest RRP is the same as the current RRP of the PS4. Mental. Guess they really never managed to get production costs down that far and that really shows why the PS3 legs were so bad.
We'll never see a console as cheap as the ps2 again though, even adjusted for inflation. The controllers are far more expensive to produce then they were, the now necessary inclusion of storage also drives up the minimum possible price.
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I was wondering how much the older PS models sold after their successors hit the market, and the lowest price point they hit, so kudos for the info.
Also, I added the additional info you posted to the OP, since the OP was pretty lacking in detail, like you said.
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With the PS4 not yet hitting a permanent $199 and being more popular than the PS3, I would imagine it should be able to hit at least 12M-15M units sold after the PS5 launches.
