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

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Blood_Tears said:

S.Peelman said:

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. 

Brand loyalty only goes so far though.  Sony did manage to lose 70 million+ customers in a single gen going from PS2 to PS3.  I know that it's not remotely the same situation.  But, it does prove there were tens of millions of people who bought a different console that gen and never felt the need to go back and purchase a PS3 later.