Switch Tops 98M, PS5 Outsells Xbox Series - Global Hardware Nov 28 to Dec 4

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S.Peelman said:

Norion said:

I wonder how many people wanting to get a PS5 are getting a Series S instead for the time being just so they can play multiplats without needing to use the PS4 for them anymore. Shame a console with such high demand is getting its full first year significantly held back like this.

There is also a decent chance that "for the time being" will just turn into "forever" for a lot of people if they never feel the incentive to get a PS5 anymore because Series S ends up being 'good enough'. PS5 will have lost sales to XBox here.

Possibly but the chances are if they were looking for a PS5 to begin with, they would have played on PS4 at some point as that community is over 100M. For a lot of people Sony's 1st party is just too good to pass up "forever" as their brand is too strong to ignore.