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Dulfite on 14 March 2022
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trunkswd said:
gtotheunit91 said:

I still think PS5 will outsell Xbox Series this gen, but not by a wide margin. I've read a lot of people still thinking PS5 will wipe the floor with Xbox, but they forget how much of the market Xbox caught up on going from the 6th gen to 7th gen

PS2: 155 million
Xbox: 24 million

PS3: 87 million
X360: 85 million

That's quite the catch up over the course of a single console generation. And with Xbox soon to be pumping out games nonstop along with the really unfortunate shortages Sony is needing to overcome, we're in for a very competitive generation. Then there's Nintendo lol

This gen will likely end up somewhere between 7th and 8th gens. 70-80m for Xbox Series X|S vs 100-110m for PS5. With the shortages I am expecting this gen to be a year or 2 longer than usual.

I don't think a generation plagued by chip shortages, a major European war, introduction of the Steam Deck and growing expansion of Gamepass PC leading to more PC gamers is going to, collectively, be that high. If your numbers hold up, that's 300-340 million consoles sold including Switch. That would be a crazy high number considering everything going against consoles right now. Only way it could do that is if this generation is abnormally long, and if that's the case those numbers won't be as impressive because they will be divided by a larger number when determining the average sold per year.

Last gen PS4 got 117 million and Xbox One got 51 million, rounding up. That's 168 million combined for those two. There is less of a reason to get an Xbox now with Gamepass PC and less of a reason to get a PS5 with big Sony games coming to PC. I think, max, they stay at that 168 level, probably more like 150 million. So I predict 85 million PS5s and 65 million Xbox Series.