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Otter on 14 April 2021
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curl-6 said:
Mandalore76 said:

I remember reading that after the PS4 Pro launched that 1 in every 5 PS4's sold was the Pro, and that 40% of those Pro sales were people who already owned PS4's upgrading to the shinier model.  They would have needed a lot more PS4 owners to swap out their already purchased consoles to the Pro model to inflate the lifetime sales high enough to reach the PS2.  I don't think that was ever realistically on the table.

I think just about all of us also expected PS4 to have much better legs than it ultimately did post-2019.

Granted, I never thought it could challenge PS2/DS but I did expect it to land somewhere in the 130-140 million range, prior to 2020.

Everyone would have expected the system to be $199 by now and in heavy supply but neither is true. PS4 has actually been supply constrained for a while now, no stock on amazon UK for the 500gb base model til June. This could be an unintended impact of Corona or a strange strategy from sony to shift all demand towards PS5. At this point in a playstation systems life we'd expect a new SKU, so the systems end of life has been handled completely different from past systems