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curl-6 on 29 August 2022
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padib said:
curl-6 said:

The core of the argument was whether or Switch will greatly reduce PS5 sales. That's what all this is about.

That is my point of contention with Liquid Laser. He says that the PS5 will be greatly harmed by the Switch, I say it won't.

It's not because I disagree with liquid laser that I need agree with you. You're both wrong. The PS5 will sell around 7-9M in japan, around 100-105M elsewhere leading to 107-114M total, similar to the PS4 or a bit below, with a weaker japan (notice they just unfuriated the japanese with a price hike and they are not happy at all). This is due to lost opportunity that can't be regained in Japan, and due to strong competition from both Nintendo and MS worldwide leading Sony unable to reach PS4+PSP type total of 185M (or if you like 158M of PS2 era).

In total, due to competition from both Nintendo and MS, Sony is losing an opportunity of around 50-80M, plus the software that goes with it. How much is MS' we don't know, but for certain at lesdt 30M of that is due to Nintendo in Japan (20M PSP +10M PS2 to PS4 decrease).

So basically what I said then, that how much it PS5 sells Japan isn't enough to make a real difference on a global scale.

I'm only talking about Switch vs PS4/5, so PS2/PS3/handhelds etc is not relevant.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 29 August 2022