PS5 ships 65.5M by 30.09.2024. LT sales expectations?

[DonFerrari]

JRPGfan said:

"Lifetime expectations ?"

I think it has a shot of beating the PS4.... however probably not by much.
I voted 100-120m, but it might go abit over 120m tbh (if its gonna beat the PS4).

Im not super optimistic about PS5 yet (so voted conservatively) .... lets see where it is a year or two from now.
I'd be happy to be surprised, by it doing better than my expectations.
(ps4 fizzled out too early imo, sony could have pushed it harder, for more sales near the end of its cycle... but choose profit margins on hardware instead)

My simulation of the end of life deep price cut to get another 10M HW sales showed little prospect of happening due to overall bringing less profit than keep the price they had and lose those additional 10M HW because the people buying the console so late in its life would likely buy much less SW. And with PS5 BC that made even more sense.

And that may have even made they keep their PS5 price at this level for so long, they are having sales based on inventory availability with almost zero pressure to cut the price and they even increased it to correct inflation/ratio exchange. I only see they pricecuting if their target for 25M becomes so challenged that they may lose it by several millions and projection for next FY also become low.