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curl-6 on 20 April 2022
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The_Liquid_Laser said:
Norion said:

So the PS5 has fallen behind the Switch and if stock doesn't pick up for it properly soon then it's gonna fall behind permanently a lot faster than the PS4 did.

Yeah, PS5 is falling behind Switch and this was probably Switch's weakest sales period in relative terms.  Once we get near Switch's  next holiday season then it's going to pull significantly ahead of PS5, and PS5 will never get a decent chance to catch up again.

Never say never; the shortages of the early 9th gen may lead to a longer than usual generation as Sony and MS try to make sure they get their money's worth out of their current consoles. PS5 could pull a Switch and go into overdrive in year 4 or something, once supply is no longer strangling it.

I concur it seems unlikely at this point that PS5 will catch up to the Switch, but I'm sure in 2015 most folks would have said the successor to the Wii U would have absolutely no chance of outselling the PS4, yet look where we stand now.

The gaming market is extremely hard to accurately predict beyond the short term.