PS5 Ships 61.7 Million Units as of June 2024 (2.4M for April-June Quarter)

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epicurean said:

I dont know what reason people have to be excited about the PS5 right now. I expect it to continue to drop hard. They have...2(?) games announced from internal studios (Concord/Astro). It feels very much like we are in the Xbox One/Series drought that MS still hasn't been able to pull out of. They seem to just be banking on 3rd party (mainly GTA, I assume) to carry them. More than 5 years into its lifecycle and they haven't even announced games from many of their biggest studios. It's baffling to me. 

The odd thing is that this is working .. for now ..

4 years into the generation and PS5 is selling a lot more than the PS3 (which gen was the peak for many and 2nd place for the others) and selling almost on par with the PS4 (which gen was 2nd best for many, and the best for the other) and those 2 gens were maybe the peak generations in terms of games, and Sony and Microsoft doing way better than they are now. We had many more games than now, we were at way cheaper prices by that point, and there were many more new things for a console gen, and many more reasons in general than there is now, and yet even the XBSX is selling more than it should be for a console without games, with no true exclusives and with no reason to have, but the PS5 is the pinnacle of console selling best with no games, no nothing and it still continue to do good, and with the PS5 Pro and GTA 6 the sales I see will only continue to be good or even better if those 2 things give it a boost. It's scandal and anomaly. How did this gen will do close to last 2 gen numbers combined without anything. This is maybe the power of the mainstream. The not so hardcore games like most of us here. The most of the mainstream people buy new phones when they come out. It's the same here. I have colleagues and friends who are not so into gaming, but buys the latest and the newest one console, just because they want to play something on the best hardware, or on the newest, no matter that they want it for only 1 or 2 games. They think by default they have to get the newest one to be able to play games such as GTA V, or let's say God of war or Spiderman or even the call of duties. I am not even sure that all of those sales comes from that type of people that are mainstream and do not go deep into those things and what they really need. But this generation is just doing good for no reason...

Last edited by XtremeBG - on 08 August 2024