Next gen PS5/XB1SX sales ratio will look the same as this gen's. Huge changes in console marketshare require huge changes in the industry.

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RolStoppable said:

Shaunodon said:

You're attempting to use the current sales ratio to pat yourself on the back, but by the time this generation ends the sales ration could actually be closing in on 3:1 compared to last-gen's 2:1.

Your prediction was that nothing much would change from last-gen, but in reality Xbox has actually torpedoe'd their brand and lost so much of the little marketshare they had left, they've now already entered the emergency escape codes and are mapping out their transition into an umbrella company/publisher that sell niche psuedo-console PCs on the side.

The status quo obviously hasn't been kept with Xbox essentially leaving the console platform space.

Microsoft certainly surprised us by using their acquisitions not to bolster their portfolio as a console manufacturer, but rather as a boost for their transition to a third party publisher. They took incompetence and ineptitude to a whole new level this generation. All that money at their disposal, but no clue how to form a coherent strategy. Most baffingly, they made the decision to go third party at a time when the Series was actually in a surprisingly good position due to the semiconductor shortages, sometime during 2022. This is when some people on this forum went nuts and dreamt of the Series selling more units than the 360 did instead of being simply satisfied with Microsoft being able to increase their market share a bit in comparison to the One.

Microsoft had the tools available to change the ratio from 2:1 to something like 1.7:1 or 1.8:1, but yeah, we are heading for 3:1 which is massive.

Well that makes the second person to predict 3:1. I'll revisit this thread after PS6 and XBox 1/4 Teaspoon are released.