Sony Q3 2024 results- 75 million PS5's shipped. 9.5M in Q3

[Mar1217]

You wouldn't think they'd have it in them after the speech that said the PS5 was past it's prime and the trajectory would only go down.
But the fumbles of their closest competitor(especially in the US), the launch of the PS5 Pro and good deals during the holiday season made them a ton during the most profitable time of the year !

Now, looking at how they dealt with Q4 last year, I wonder if we're in for a somewhat quite muted one in shipped sales again. It's gonna reach that 18M with certainty at least.
Then there's the whole debate about next year's games template. We're quite advance in the generation and most software isn't gonna push hardware in the same vein as it did by the beginning of this generation.

I know people wants GTA VI to be the VG sacred savior for the industry and upheld the declining sales of the currents consoles.
But two things are more likely imo :

1) GTA VI will miss it's late 2025 target release. (The absence of any marketing since the reveal leads me to believe so)

2) While it's likely to push a significant amount of hardware, at least during it's launch month. It's not gonna reverse the current decline, nor are the numbers gonna beat any kind of records.

Historically, people had the same thoughts over how games like GTA IV and GTA V were gonna lead to huge gain in hardware sales during their release. This did not happen and I feel like people current sentiment would've only felt valid during the early years of this generation when the install base was still building itself up.