| 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? ... 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'll keep to my original prediction from 2 years ago from a similar thread. https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/237137/how-much-do-you-expect-the-ps4-to-sell-lifetime/1/
I had guessed 123.0m, but had a lazy finger that refused to add the final zero.
As far as the bonus question I'm not sure how to approach it. I played a lot on PS3 without the subscription, and I played a bunch on the 360 with one. During the PS4 and Xbox One generation I had both subscriptions and felt like I received more in return than what I put in. I downloaded many of the free games from both camps and feel like I didn't really pay for a subscription. I'll do it again next generation and the price of 1 game for a yearly membership doesn't bother me. Life is too short to worry about such nuances when I have Covid to the right of me and rioters to the left of me and a bunch of geniuses in front me thinking they have all the solutions.
