| Cerebralbore101 said: We should save this conversation for until after next gen launches, because I don't think PS5 will come close to PS4 end numbers. I did check and it looks like out of 14,463 Series games only 2119 games are in the Xbox play anywhere program. This means a vast majority of Xbox games would have to be repurchased on PC. So I don't think your argument for a PC transition being more natural for Xbox users is as strong as you think. |
PS5 is going to comfortably surpass 100M units sold this year, with no successor announced and actually leads that this generation will last longer than the PS4 did, which should 117M units, which sales the PS5 has been keeping up with remarkably close for over 5 years now.
I would like to understand how not only the PS5 won't surpass it but it "won't come close". That doesn't sound realistic, it IS already very close.
About the Play Anywhere program, you gave an over 2 thousand games library to keep playing on PC, that plus keeping Gamepass for new releases and the rotating game library, which has been the most attractive trait Xbox users have been having on Xbox.
How is that not vastly more appealing for Xbox users already invested in this ecosystem when choosing to leave Xbox and going to PC, than like 20 Playstation games on Steam, that are not even big sales hits over there? Even as I said we can hardly gauge it, how should I not infer that later rather than the first?
Even if those few Playstation games there are more interesting for Xbox players than keeping their library so that's the biggest reason they are moving over, why are they are choosing PC instead of the PS5 even as the PS5 has a lot more of those? And if so, why are those games not having massive sales numbers on PC if even aside from the usual PC users it can sell to, so many Xbox users migrating are doing so because of said games, and not mostly to keep a vastly bigger ammount of their games library and Gamepass?
So even if the reason is because of both, I can only infer the Playstation games there are definitely not the biggest reason to move over, the difference in scale is definitely not pointing to it, and sales are quite honestly nearly proving it. It's an added bonus at best, their presence on PC is hardly the reason people are choosing that route and not the PS5 route.
So the effect on PS5 sales growth is small, and the fact that it can counter such a big increase in price and abandoning price cuts as a sales trajectory, I can only see a good ammount of Xbox players already choosing to go for the PS5 when they want those games, instead of the PC regarding the availabity of PS games, instead of Playstation having more people move over from not owning any console, as it has less available audience it's able to convice with the price being higher the whole generation. Less people not interested on consoles up until now simply have access to give that first step to begin with, other than with any other Playstation system, aside from the PS3 first 4 years of so.
