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Davy 1 day ago
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Cerebralbore101 said:
BraLoD said:

Playstation games on PC had zero impact on Playstation console sales, it's tracking the PS4 pretty much exactly, despite being more expensive and not only not getting price cuts, but actually getting price increases.

Sony should have seen more growth this generation. XB1 was 58 million units lifetime. PS4 was 117 million units lifetime. Xbox Series is unlikely to sell more than 36 million units lifetime. Even if PS5 somehow manages to sell 117 million units (it won't), this leaves a gap of 22 million units from last gen to this gen. Some people always owned two consoles and just went down to a PS5 for this gen, but that can't account for all 22 million losses. The release of PS5 games onto PC is causing former Xbox users to go with PC instead of a PS5. It's also causing PS4 owners to go with a PC instead of a PS5. Nintendo is the only company that even tries to play the traditional console strategy of exclusives and fair console prices anymore and they've sold 150 million Switches. 

TL/DR: PS5 should have seen massive growth over PS4 due to XB Series failing. It didn't because price increases and porting exclusives to PC are hamstringing it. 

Edit: Just to point this out further. 360 and PS3 sold a combined  173 million units. PS4 and XB1 sold a combined 175 million units. This is because PS4 managed to capture most of the marketshare from Xbox and a  little from the Wii U's failure. Anyway even with the Switch's success the PS5 should have gotten 10-15 million more units sold from Xbox customers leaving Xbox and going to PS5. But they didn't. They went to PC. And assuming PS5 ends at 105 million units that would be something like 18-25 million units in growth that PS5 failed to get from the collapse of Xbox. 

DoubleEdit: Mistakes made in one generation often take until the following generation to completely show up in sales losses. So I expect the PS6 to sell less than the PS3. 

I think Sony strategy to sell games on PC is ok. Gaming PCs costs 1,5k$-2k$ and not many pc gamers will buy a PS5 on top of that for 3-4 exclusive games they might not even like much.