The PS4 shipped 110.4m by March 31st. Lifetime sales expectations?

[DonFerrari]

ArchangelMadzz said:

RolStoppable said:

Last week Sony reported that the PS4 had reached 110.4m in life to date shipments by March 31, 2020. This translates to 13.6m for the past twelve months (April 2019 to March 2020), down from 17.8m in the year before. Sony did not provide a PS4 hardware forecast for the current fiscal year ending March 2021, but it's supposed to be announced in August when Sony next reports on their financials.

A continuation of the PS4's decline is expected because the PS5 is still on track for its scheduled launch during the holiday season 2020, but how far can the PS4 go?

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Bonus question: Hindsight is 20/20. When Microsoft announced their vision for the Xbox One roughly seven years ago, a huge gamer movement formed to push back against Microsoft's policies, such as always online and big restrictions on used game sales. Said movement ultimately succeeded because Microsoft abolished some of their policies before they launched their Xbox One console, demonstrating that gamers do have the power to dictate the direction. However, concurrently the same movement remained silent when Sony announced that they would stop providing the options for free online multiplayer or a paid premium online service, putting everything behind a PS+ subscription. Do you think the collective gaming community should have taken a stand, are you indifferent because you don't play online games anyway, or are you fine with gamers sending the message that it's okay to screw them over as long as it is Sony who is performing the deed?

I don't think that's true.

You can still use a lot of internet based services that are subscriptions elsewhere. without PS+ you can still use party chat, share screenshots, live stream to twitch and other services. Use all of the streaming apps like netflix, etc. (Although I think that last one MS changed their minds so you can use it without any XB live if someone can correct me on that?)

And you can still play online on F2P games as well without PS+.

Yes the 2 biggest changes on Gold service were offering games for free and taking subscription services from the paywall due to PSN and PS+.

But as far as I know F2P games still depend on Gold.