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

[curl-6]

padib said:

curl-6 said:

Again though, that drop happened long before the Switch, in one country. On a global scale, PS4's sales didn't plummet in parallel with the arrival and rise of the Switch, nor did PS4's dominance at the time of Switch's release stop it selling strongly out of the gate.

The two sold well side by side; to go back to my original point, there's nothing to suggest PS5 and Switch can't do the same, and in fact they are doing just that right now.

Them selling well side by side doesn't mean they don't eat out each others' marketshare or compete for customer $$. That's what I'm clarifying to you. So long as you make these two concepts mutually exclusive, you can't understand the obvious.

I never said they were mutually exclusive, I already said there is overlap. But the extent to which they eat into each other's sales is clearly not dramatic; if it was, we would've seen Switch's rise take a huge chunk out of PS4's momentum, but it didn't.

Again, let's go to why this was brought up in the first place; it was claimed Switch's dominance would cripple PS5 sales. I said this is unlikely as Switch's success didn't cripple PS4 sales, and PS5 is already selling quite well alongside the Switch. Do you believe PS5 is going to have its sales crippled by the Switch?

Last edited by curl-6 - on 28 August 2022