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

[Blood_Tears]

Mandalore76 said:

Blood_Tears said:

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.

You're right, it's not the same situation at all. PS3 was a different beast altogether and that was Sony's fuck up. There's a world wide chip shortage going on and some gamers are being hyperbolic because shipments weren't high enough this month for their liking. There's no PS3 mistake here at all and they're selling on par with PS4 at the moment.