PS5 Ships 93.7M. LT sales expectations?

[XtremeBG]

G2ThaUNiT said:

Seeing the latest figures, I'm honestly expecting it to surpass the PS1, but not get anywhere close to the PS4.

Shame too. PS5 had a pretty decent chance until how the last year and a half has played out. And for the most part, not out of any wrongdoing by Sony either.

To be honest, they could still do it with how the things has played out up until recently with the latest price hike. On the original post you can see bar chart with the sales through the years, and 2025 was still decent with 17.4M and not a big drop off from the year prior of 19.6M. If they could stick with the prices before that last hike, with GTA 6 coming, they could do some 15M this year for sure. Which would lead to PS5 being at almost 105M by year's end. Then another 12-13M for the next year were also like a sure thing, and there you go, 117M by end of 2027. Let alone more after that.

But now with that big drops from the last price hike, only PS1 is likely to be surpassed, not much more after that .. unless some wild card is played like prolonging the generation till 2030, or some old one returns .. like price cut. Or why not both ?

Also @firebush03 I don't know where you get data from, but PS5 is still slightly outperforming Switch 1's last year numbers, both year to date, and monthly. Although if it continues to fall it may not anymore. But for the first 5 months it's ahead. Which is not achievement by itself of course .. Barely beating a console's year where it was replaced is abysmal .. 

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