Spanish SW & HW Sales - Week 45 (SMT V & FH5)

[JEMC]

src said:

JEMC said:

Of course they have PS4 consoles. Very few people bother paying 300€, if not more, for a console that has no future. What Sony should do is lower the price of the PS4 to try to avoid losing some sales to the competition.

From recent analysts numbers PS5 is dominating XSX similarly or more than PS4 did to the XB1 in its first year. Only thing Sony is missing out is having a large PS5 userbase early on and as a consequence exclusive games may sell less.

Sony expects to sell 46 million in 2.5 years. If PS5 is stock constrained even after a 23M selling year then we may have all seriously underestimated the demand and PS5 could sell 140M in the same timeframe as PS4 (remember PS4 peak year was 20.5M).

Exclusive games (at least the big ones, not the indie ones), will be less and less frequent as development costs don't stop raising. After all, Sony now alsao ports its own exclusives to PC to have an extra source of income. Therefore, having or not a large userbase early on won't be enough fot publishers to make exclusive deals... at least not without a generous amount of money from Sony.

Also, you're talking about the future while I talk about the present. Every customer that can't get a PS5 will be faced with the prospects of getting no console, either for him/herself or as a present, or just pick another console. And those that choose to not wait, the choice between a 300€ Switch or a PS4 leans in favor of the former for several reasons (it's newer, has a better future ahead, some people already have a PS4, etc.).

There's also the chance that some will go for an Xbox machine, but given how constant the numbers are, they also seem to be supply constrained.