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

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 

It will be interesting in 7 years or so time to see if there is a Super Slim $199 PS5 on the market or not.  Or if the case holds true that as hardware gets more expensive, the fewer price cuts the system will receive in its end of cycle years, as has been the case with the WiiU, the PS4, and the XBox One.