zeldaring said:
Soundwave said:
I doubt that because Sony themselves doubts it. They have already said they feel PS5 sales for this gen have peaked (yearly) and are forecasting lower sales next fiscal year even with PS5 Pro and GTAVI potentially. PS4 finished with 117 million and that was with a COVID sales surge for game consoles. The PS5 is now globally behind the PS4, so to pull ahead and finish ahead 15 million would be quite a magic trick when their forecast sales for next year are forecasting the PS4 lead over the PS5 will actually grow by another 1 million (PS4 shipped 19 mill for the equivalent year, Sony is forecasting only 18 mill PS5 this fiscal year).
I think many people interested in buying a PS5 for GTAVI already own a PS5 frankly.
There's a younger audience today who doesn't care about consoles like the PS5/XBox ... I think that audience is their problem. They are fine playing Roblox or Fortnite or Genshin Impact or whatever and don't need a PS5 or expensive hardware to do it.
There's no growth in this segment because it's becoming more and more a market for old people (30+ year olds even now getting into 40 year olds) which isn't a growing market.
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GTAV sold nearly 200 million units and hasn't had a sequel for 13 years, I can see millions of casuals that don't even care about gaming just picking a current gen console just to play that game. My prediction is that it wil save ps5 from selling less then ps4 but yea if it doesn't everything will decline and i see switch 2 having a big decline as well.
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A lot of those sales are across like 6 different platforms over 13 years and a big chunk of them are with the game heavily discounted. Like I don't even like GTAV but I bought it for $10 on a Steam Sale. I think a lot of the people who want a PS5 for GTAV already own it, and even Sony knows this, this is why they are saying PS5 sales have peaked already even with PS5 Pro coming and forecasting sales to go down this coming year.
