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ConservagameR on 08 November 2022
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eva01beserk said:
ConservagameR said:

What I think will end up making the biggest difference, will be XB Studios, new acquisitions included. They need at least a few releases to be absolute bangers, or they need many to be decent, to keep this sales pace up. If XB Studios keeps releasing games in anywhere near the shape of Halo Infinite, they're going to start seeing a considerable hardware decline as PS5 stock much improves. Just wait a while longer, we've got great games coming, won't be able to win over those interested in a Series, or with a Series console, near as long as it did with the XB One.

If XB comes up with enough good first party games in the next year or two, I don't see PS5 getting close to PS4 total sales. If those XB first party titles don't cut it, PS5 should be able to get relatively close to PS4. I'd say this would make about a 15 million sales difference for PS5, depending on how XB handles their first party output. That would basically mean PS5 sales somewhere between 100 - 115 million units sold no matter what I guess.

Sort off. But its more on sonys first party output. Cus they are the market leader and have a big ps4 installbase that is itching to upgrade. The ps4 owners dont only have to be convinced that xbox is doing better but that they are better than sony if they are to jump ship.

PS Studios output matters as well, but nowhere near as much. Sony have a proven track record and with GoW Ragnarok getting yet another extremely high review score, people are at the point where they have a considerable amount of trust in PS first party output.

XB doesn't have this luxury, and with the Halo Infinite launch and handling since, they've pretty much got just expectations still. Until XB puts out a few undeniably amazing first party games, or starts and keeps putting out widely considered worthy games, they won't have near the confidence from people as PS does. 

PS would need to put out a couple AAA games in a row that flat out bombed hard for people to feel uneasy about their future games. While that's possible it's very unlikely based on what we've seen for over a decade now.