PS5 Biggest Console Launch In History!

[Wman1996]

Intrinsic said:

Wman1996 said:

I still say it sells worse in its lifetime than the PS2 and PS4. But congrats to Sony, I suppose.
I think the momentum from the PS4 and more people staying inside helped make this happen. That and features like PS4 backwards compatibility, an All-Digital Option, and an SSD.

PS2..I can understand. I am really curious to hear what or why you think it sells less than the PS4 though?

Surely... you don't think the Switch will impact its sales, do you? Or is it that the Xbox is going to do a lot better this gen and pull sales from the PS5?

Because the game hardware market is more or less stabilizing. Shrinkage is inevitable too. I don't think we're gonna see another fluke like Gen 7 where the Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, DS, and PSP combined sold about 510 million units.

Yes, there will be some siphoning off of PlayStation sales by Xbox and Nintendo. They are a lot smarter now than 2012 and 2013. But some of it will be the changing market anyway. By 2040 or sooner, the vast majority of gaming will be on computers and mobile devices. Really the only video hardware at that point will be nostalgia/classic machines like Nintendo Minis, PlayStation Classics, etc. You won't be playing on a PS8 or something. The final PlayStation will likely be PS6 or PS7.