| src said: Downloads/player numbers are not copies sold, so you're wrong again. Like I said, MS biggest IP Halo, got handily OUTSOLD by TLOU, Spiderman, UC, God of War, even Horizon. There's no coming back from that. PS5 is selling 2x Xbox so you're wrong for the third time. And a final laugh, PS5 is expected 23M next FY, making it the best selling year in Playstation history in only its 2nd full year. |
I work in logistics, and everything I'm hearing is that the Global Supply Chain Crisis is expected to continue throughout 2022. So, I'd temper expectations about how many more next gen consoles will be available next year than they were able to pump out this year.
| src said: I mean I would wait for Sony to say such things. |
If getting outsold 2 to 1 by the Nintendo Switch during Black Friday week, and outsold 3 to 1 by the Switch the week after (while selling less than 2,000 units in all of Japan the same week) is "hitting all their FY targets", that should tell you something about what to expect during another supply constrained year. As the newcomer on the market in its 2nd holiday in 2018, the Switch was within a few hundred thousand of PS4 during Black Friday, and separated by less than a hundred thousand the week after, and then overtook the PS4 every week by a significant margin for the remainder of the year. That's what you would have expected the PS5 to be doing right now if there were no supply issues. Going back to the PS4's 2nd holiday in 2014, it was selling an average of 725,778/week throughout December. The PS5 averaged 413,429/week so far this month. That's over 300,000 behind per week so far this month. So again, I would temper your expectation regarding 2022 being a record setting year for PlayStation. I don't base this on demand, or what Sony hopes, but on the realism of the Global Supply Chain Crisis and the Semiconductor Shortage.
