Is there even a mass market for next genn console's anymore?

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Wman1996 said:

No. We could see a crash for consoles and some software that is much bigger than the North American Gaming Crash of 1983. In terms of its impact on the whole world that is. The Crash of 1983 was almost exclusively a net negative for the time for North America, not Japan, Europe, and others.
$900 and up for consoles is untenable. Shoot, I would say $700 and up for PS6 is untenable especially if it's out by 2028-2029.
Depending on how severe price hikes get, Switch 2 might not even hit 100 million units. But we'll have to wait and see.
Console gaming is on the brink for the first time in over 40 years.

Yeah that's a good point. Switch 2 is already struggling to put up big sales most months after the record breaking launch a year ago fizzled out. With the price raises the one place that was keeping them afloat has joined the mediocre sales of the rest of the world. And once the new prices hit around the rest of the world the sales everywhere else are gonna go from mediocre to poor. At this point I very much would not be surprised if the Switch 2 doesn't hit 100M despite having 20M sold after just 12 months. And PS5 may very well only top out at 110M.

Next year is gonna be very bleak for console sales. Xbox sales are gonna be