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Dulfite on 08 January 2022
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Agente42 said:
ShadowLink93 said:

 This is true. The PS4 has had the worst legs in playstation history excluding PSVita, it may not even reach 1.5m for this FY. Sony doesn't care about reaching 120m, i think they just want to be done with the PS4 in terms of hardware, of course they still want to make money from their software with that huge install base.

The key for understand this is: First, aggressive pricing. Sony loses a good profit margin chase install base. It´s happening with PSone, PS2, PS3, but no occurs with PS4. Sony launch a cheap version and lost a good margin with old consoles. PS4 has fews price cuts. Second, PS4 it´s not focusing on a multimedia center, Ps3 and PS2 was the multimedia center focus, so people buy the videogame because, beyond games, it´s a cheaper option and good multimedia center. Sony now focus on profiting ( PS5 beyond June, now making profiting per unit sale) 

And this is what I think Nintendo will do with the Switch. Why sell 15 million Switch 1's to a mostly tapped userbase with dwindling software sales and user engagements when you could sell 17-20 million Switch 2's to a brand new/excited userbase with increasing software sales and user engagements?

The smartest thing for Sony/MS/Nintendo to do is focus less on the generation numbers and more on the annual numbers.

Sony self-destruction ps4 lifetime potential is a strong case study for Nintendo to follow as it no doubt is more profitable for Sony to cut the legs out on PS4 so it can inject steroids into PS5.