Sony: PS5 Sales Top 20 Million Units

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Kyuu said:

One thing that caught my attention is Sony's latest revenue forecasts showing some annual decreases in hardware revenue for the next few years. I guess hardware sales can still increase despite the decrease in revenue, via a combination of price drops and pushing more PS5DE's. But unless Sony is underestimating demand or overestimating the shortage, it doesn't look like PS5's peak year will approach 22 million.

I also don't see why Sony would drop the PS5 price anytime soon. Their HW revenue forecasts don't seem to match their HW sales expectations. Or at least that's how I felt about it, maybe I miscalculated.

They may be predicting price cuts to stay competitive (i.e if Microsoft does so on the X, they'll follow suite) as opposed to being $50 or $100 more expensive than the competition. Also the Switch 2 will be more a direct competitor than the Switch has been. i.e I imagine it'll be able to play a lot of third party titles without much much compromise outside of resolution (DLSS upscaled 720p) and a 30fps cap.