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killer7 on 03 February 2025
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XtremeBG said:
killer7 said:

Yes. All plattformes had a boost. But while Xboxone was so small it did not effect anything, PS4 was not even able to be remotly close to last years numbers. A boost there was in fact! Yes here i am with you. But it did not prolong gen 8 and it went down faster than gen 7. (Xbox 360 2005- 2016/ PS3 2006- 2017-----> XboxOne 2013- 2020/ PS4 2013- 2022- if we go for active lifetime as of hardware production and shipment). So if anything, Covid shortened the generation, especially their hardware legs. Would it be different (longer/ shorter) without Covid? We will never know, but i highly doubt the cycle would have gone on much longer...

I agree, but it wasn't shortened because of the covid, but because Microsoft didn't want to support and produce the XB1 after XBSX released, and because Sony .. well maybe the same thing, they continue to produce the PS4 in low volumes, but they didn't even cut the price, they didn't do any marketing and they didn't had enough production for the PS4. I am not sure if the production thing was because of covid. But they wanted fast transition, and didn't want to hold on to PS4 much after the PS5 released.

I think sales fell down so fast that it wasn't worth it to continue production at all. That goes for the Xbox one as well as for the PS4. Right bow there are 3 current sytems in production: The Switch, the PS5 and the Xbox Series X/S [(i count it as 1 (family of) system(s)]. Was there ever a time when less different systems where on the market?