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HigHurtenflurst on 17 December 2020
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curl-6 said:
HigHurtenflurst said:

Look at the PS360 > PS4One transition, they sold more than their successors on Black Friday week (globally PS4 beat the PS3, but it was the European launch week)
Looks like in USA black friday week for PS3 & 360 fell by ~40% from 2012-2013... wheras PS4 & XB1 fell by ~90-95%

There must be additional reasons PS4 & XB1 are so low, the release of successors doesn't explain that huge a drop alone.

Sony did say they wanted to transition people from PS4 to PS5 faster than prior generations and it seems they meant it in that they're deliberately not pushing PS4 with aggressive pricing or an abundance of stock now that PS5 is out. The Pro in particular is still $400 and that's not a good deal any more now that you can get a PS5 digital version for the same price.

Xbone was never that popular to begin with so with increased competition it's no wonder its already limited appeal has collapsed.

I wonder if they just got caught at a bad time with this years demand, they were maybe winding down production of PS4 before the March/April increase in sales, then suddently everyone is buying them and they needed to focus on PS5 manufacturing, so they weren't able to ramp up PS4 production again.