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

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padib said:

curl-6 said:

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.

In Japan, they directly compete leading to a decrease of almost 10M PS units from 20M down to 10M.

Japan's only one country, and the decline you describe happened ages ago, primarily from the PS2 to the PS3.

PS4 didn't decline that much from the PS3, and even if PS5 declines from PS4, it won't be by enough to have a big impact on its global sales.