| The_Liquid_Laser said: 244.9m games sold during the past fiscal year. That is the number I find most interesting. I mean, on this site we focus more on hardware, but hardware is a simple number that is easier to track. It's a good benchmark. But software is really what is important. Software is important to gamers, and software is where a company makes it's profits. On Nintendo's recent financial report they sold 168.7m software units. That tells me that PS4 is still the most popular system in the world right now. Eventually people move on to another system, but most PS4 players have not moved on yet. Given, PS4 has about twice the install base of Switch and it is not selling anywhere near twice the software. Some have moved on to the Switch or at least gotten tired of their PS4 for a while. But still, the bottom line is that PS4 is still the most popular platform in the world right now. It's still selling the most games even if hardware sales have died down. |
You are making a slight mistake on for one portion considering how much sw were sold on the year but then making ratio of that with the cumulative hw sales.
If you look at total SW sale PS4 sold more than twice of what Switch done (at least last I checked), if you look at current year then PS4 sold like 50% more SW on half the HW sold.
PS4 will be a healthy system until it is replaced by PS5 and will even keep selling some after that.
duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363
Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994
Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."
