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Zippy6 said:
only777 said:

People need to stop panicking, Sony just knocked it out the park with 2 mliion European sales.

So no, PlayStation is not dead. The USA on the other hand......

Yes, even with the terrible USA sales, global sales PS5 in November has outsold PS4's 2018 November by over 700k units.

5m units sold for October+November they should easily be looking at an 8m+ holiday quarter and Sony clearly beating their forecast. Is the forecast still 15m for the FY or did they update it at some point?

It’s a uniquely US issue, I’ve noticed. For instance, NS2 outperformed NS1 November 2017 by nearly 100k WW despite falling significantly short in US. This is because NS2 saw a very solid boost over NS1 in EU, JP, and (likely) Other.

Similarly, PS5 saw an unprecedented YoY increase in EU. (Though not having JP left WW overall down. Took too hard of a hit in the US.)

Curious why that might be? I’m doubtful of it being an economic issue as (i) hardware sales have been powerful every other month this year, with NS2 even shattering records, and (ii) there is little precedent of economy correlating to poor gaming industry (e.g. 2000, 2008, and 2020–pres.).