| estebxx said:
What will the lifetime sales look like?, Will it reach 120 million?, or at least 119 in order to beat the Gameboy? or will it end up arround 115 million? |
At this point it should reach at least 120m.
It could go quite a bit further if they did substantial pricecuts post-ps5, as the amount of units sold after a successor seems very heavily tied to this.
PS1 shipped around 29m units after the PS2 launched, it had a price cut to $49 in May 2002
PS2 shipped around 48m units after the PS3 launched, it had a price cut to $99 in April 2009
PS3 shipped around 7m units after the PS4 launched, it's last price cut was to $269 with the launch of the superslim in September 2012.
So legs after a successor launch is heavily dependant on whether or not the console gets a substantial price cut after it's sucessor has launched. PS3 didn't and dropped like a rock.
I'm not sure we will see substantial price drops for the PS4 after the PS5 comes out, so my personal prediction will probably be around 125m. But if we saw a drop to $199 it could be as high as 135m-140m imo.
