If that's the route Sony goes, than I think it will most likely be flat YoY or slightly down.

yea seemed like they were happy with november and didn't want to sell the ps4 at a cheaper price. they should have went with the COD bundle instead of battlefront.

Q4 might be a little tough to sell thru 5.4 million to hit their target of 79 by March 31, they must have a price cut this quarter.

zorg1000 said: Great sales, i originally thought 2017 would be slightly down from 2016 considering 2016 was basically flat from 2015, im glad to be wrong this time

I expected every console to be down and the Switch to do well. Glad I was wrong on all accounts as every console seems to have kept up well, and the Switch sold better than I thought. And 2017 didn't really have any huge games.

Heres my quick guess for sales in the coming years.

2018-back to 2015/2016 levels or about ~17 million bringing LTD sales to over 90m.

2019-another slight decline to around 2014 levels or about ~14m, LTD around ~105m.

2020-PS5 will release in the fall so PS4 sales will take a hit, maybe around ~10m, LTD ~115m.

2021-2023, post generation legs will be better than PS3 but far from PS2, i see another ~10m in these years bringing final sales to ~125m and becoming the 2nd vest selling home console of all time.

Guys also:

PSN has >70m active users, and PS+ over >32m.

32m people all paying 50$ to play online each year....... ($_$)

73.6 is sell through so shipments are closer to 75-76m. They need to ship 3-4m in the next quarter to reach their target.

Farsala said: zorg1000 said: Great sales, i originally thought 2017 would be slightly down from 2016 considering 2016 was basically flat from 2015, im glad to be wrong this time I expected every console to be down and the Switch to do well. Glad I was wrong on all accounts as every console seems to have kept up well, and the Switch sold better than I thought. And 2017 didn't really have any huge games.

if you're talking about ps4, aside from COD, i agree. RDR2 could be the next big thing, especially if they start off with from the  people that brought you GTAV, that alone could sell a ton of consoles. then spiderman will be huge, as well as GOW.

I thought the article said PS+ is 31.5m

20 million in a single year is amazing, congrats to Sony. When was the last time a console did 20+ million  in a single year?

 Will be interesting to see if it sells more this year.