Despite that PS4 still won 2018 and it wasn't PS4's best year.

This year when we can already expect some new salt when PS4 will be above the Wii.

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I think people are seriously underestimating a permanent price drop for the PS4. Look at all of the people lining up out the door in South Korea with their recent price drops. If you look at the last two Black Friday weeks in the U.S.- PS4 easily beat the competition and sold out everywhere. If Sony had provided more stock an extended the $199 promotion through December- it would have been an absolute bloodbath.

Yet still with probably the best 3D Zelda at the moment, one of the best 3D Mario’s, The best super smash bros to date, 2 casual Pokémon’s, Super Mario party, Splatoon 2, Xenoblade 2 and many other Nintendo games,   Between March 2017 and the end of 2018 the Switch got outsold by almost 8 millions to a 4-5 years old console with a base model at the same price (pro is $399).

Care to show your real world number?

In the real world, it seems that switch will have a bigger 2019 then 2018. Is a fantasy imagine that switch can continue to sell at a 16M+ pacing per year? It still have revisions to show, price drops... these numbers doesnt seems too out of reality. PS4, meanwhile got to sell 14M in its second year. Supposing ps5 would be as successful as ps4, is well in the reality that switch might outsell it on its the second year. 3rd year of ps4 was 16.7M, switch might still not be too far off it, despite it being more difficult, do not seems that imposible...

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Sony's doing awesome for sure. Hope they don't get cocky though. They have a tendency to do that after success stories. I mean PS3 sold a shit ton and yet was a bigger failure than the Wii U in terms of money made. So hope they keep their heads down and do what they did with PS2 and ps4 and deliver an awesome PS5. But I do think that the next 3 years are the switch's since first year PS5 can't possibly cross switch just like switch first 2 years didn't. And remember that is with switch being ahead in the us in the same timeframe and massively still in Japan. Maybe even ps5's first 2 years it won't be no.1. we'll see what happens though. Do they screw up? Is it Microsoft's time to take back some of the gamers like it did with 360? How much close to PS4 will switch get and will it cross it? Definitely an interesting time in terms of analytics in gaming

This thread is VGChartz in a nutshell lol. Anyways congrats to Sony. Keep delivering the hits and I'll keep buyin.

The problem is it's not guaranteed sony will make a permanent price drop of that size. Maybe €250 price this year then €200 for the holidays. Then next year €200 permanently. I hope they are more aggressive but they are clearly going for profits. 

I would bet money based on what I know.  About PS5 itself, I know nothing.  About it's competitor, the Switch, I know that it is already successful.  Therefore the safe money is on the Switch.

I have a very different view of the PS3.  I see it as a total failure.  Although, I am from the US and it was a total failure in the US, shut out by both the Wii and XBox360.  Perhaps a person would see it differently in a country where the XBox360 never took off.  Also, from Sony's perspective it was a total failure because it lost them a ton of money.  But some gamers might see it differently because it had decent marketshare for a few years.

We also have a different perspective on console brands, because you seem to think that console brands matter a great deal.  I do not think console brands matter at all.  How much did the Wii brand help the Wii U?  Not at all.  The PS2 brand didn't help the PS3 either.  The Playstation brand doesn't mean anything, because none of the console brands mean anything.  The Playstation brand will not help the PS5 sell at all.

great to hear, and will not be different this year, just thinking of the amazing games that are still coming