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Farsala 16 hours ago
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DekutheEvilClown said:
Farsala said:

Software sales usually peak later in the generation. For example the Nintendo Switch.

6th FY far surpasses any early year. 7th FY isn't too shabby either. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th were not near.

PS5 is now in its 6th or 7th FY and so it should far surpass the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th FY.


I’m not really sure what you’re not getting. Last FY PlayStation sold over 300m units of software. Thats more than every single one of those switch years. It’s more than every PS2 year etc. it’s the second highest number of all-time. 

To claim that overall software sales are falling or not increasing as much as expected, when it’s the second highest of all-time, seems beyond ridiculous. 

Also, those peak years for the switch correlate to the pandemic. That is the primary driver for them. They're not just high because that’s what expected at that point in the lifecycle. The Switch 2 will probably never beat those pandemic years either. 

Sigh. 

I am just saying what is known. Later years of a console's lifetime should have higher software sales than the earlier years. So your numbers surprised me. The later years of the PS4 were grand indeed. PS5 may be able to surpass that this year.

The Switch FY 10, 9, 8, 7 beating FY 1, 2, 3, 4 has not much to do with the pandemic,  but the natural thing of the Switch having a lot more owners to buy software.