Sony no longer reporting PS4 shipments, Final Official total 117.00m

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yo33331 said:

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There are very few things in the universe we can know with absolute certainty. We can make educated estimates though, and PS4's sales did not start to dramatically degrade in parallel with the Rise of the Switch, nor was the Switch's growth suppressed by the PS4's dominance at its time of release, so the most likely explanation is that the two didn't directly clash.

Of course they didn't directly clash. I am not making such a statement. Just that they impact each other with a few milions of sales - maybe 2-3-4M (or percentage, depends on the yearly sales)

There is no need the one to dramatically degrade, for to there be some impact. Don't look at the sales to have big drop, but the sales could've been higher, for either of them.

I won't say there was no interaction between them at all, just that they didn't directly compete (just indirectly) and the extent to which each took sales from the other was relatively small given their comparative curves.

Liquid Laser's argument was that direct competition from the Switch will cripple PS5 sales, my point was that the PS4/Switch's track record suggests this won't be a problem.