90-100 mil at best. Sony is losing ground in Japan and MS will be cutting into their sales more than last gen everywhere else. Between Gamepass being so affordable, XBox series consoles, and increasing PC userbases...there is little reason for anyone to buy a PS5 if they are not into Sony's 1st party games.

Damn, clicked the wrong one int he poll, wanted to say slightly above 90M but clicked 80-90M

We seem to be making the same arguments. Just that I believe it will be to late by the time MS implements.

Hm. Sony's consoles take up the #1, #2, #3, and #5 top-selling home consoles of all time prior to the release of the Ps5. (I think we all know the Switch is gonna wiggle its way into that top 5 somehow; it's doing too well, too consistently to not.)

Put all of those consoles together and you get 461.29 million consoles. PS4 is still gonna get another few million, since Sony consoles regularly sell well for a year or more after their successors come out, and with Backwards Compatibility I can genuinely see the PS4 doing PS2 numbers post PS5 launch, since so many people might say "Get a Ps4 for now, get all the games, and when the Ps5 is cheap we can just transfer everything over". It's a bit of a stretch, but I think it's reasonable.

As of right now, the average is 115 million consoles between the PS1-4. I figure the Ps4 will end up about 124-132 million, and the PS5 will do about the same. so I'm comfortable saying 120 million. THAT SAID...I wouldn't be surprised if, given the shift in momentum this last generation and the fact that Sony is just cruisin' on a wave of good press and good decisions that started with the PS4 and haven't really let up, I wouldn't be surprised if it got as high as 140-150 million. They're doing pretty much everything right as far as I can tell, from the focus on fast loading and versatility to the balance between cross-gen and next gen games to the new controller and pretty much everything else. Plus, rather than take 2-3 years to build up steam with their library like they did with PS3 and 4, they're coming out the gate with an absolutely stellar first year with a bunch of games that are either sequels to mega-selling, critically acclaimed hits, or remakes to classics that were overlooked in their time, or a few new IPs that genuinely look great so far (But could be duds; we won't know till they're out.)

Point is, I don't think we're getting a PS3 flounder this time. They learned their lesson, applied those lessons to the Ps4, and it paid off heavily. It looks like they're continuing that momentum with good decisions and great games that appeal to a wide variety of worldwide gamers. My official guess is 120-130, but it appears I got overzealous and already voted 140-150 (No big deal, I could see it in either range depending on how things shake up.

Interesting times ahead that is for sure.

Both consoles have stepped up their game. Both killed a little bit by Nvidia's GFX card announcement of the RTX3000 series

Overall there appears to a consistent total number last few gens between the two console and the only thing that changes is the ratio.

Now here is the kicker, People from the last two gens are now older and have a better disposable income. At the same time people who starter in the ATARI/NES world a slowly dying off. Will the gen of kids (who started on PS3/XBOX360) ow start buying both consoles as they got disposable incomes? Or will they continue to chose one or the other?

If no significant change in purchasing behaviour and most still buy one console, I can see XBOX maybe gaining 20Million away from PS4 total if their recent acquisitions become exclusive to the XBOX. So the 125million or so that the PS4 will end up on will probably drop to 105million for PS5.

If significant change in purchasing behaviour and a fair chunk do buy both consoles, I can see XBOX at 80million and PS5 at 130million.

I expect the PS5 to have a stronger start but a weaker finish than the PS4. This is a trend that the PS4 had with the PS3 as well. Xbox should put up more of a fight this time at the 2nd half. So my prediction is 110 Million.

Slowly dying off? NES kids (like myself) are 40 not 80!

it´ll sell over 100M units. That is for certain, with a 399 SKU, altough Physical Edition Ps5 will have the BULK of the sales among the hardcore crowd.

As time goes and more sensitive consumers enter the generation, they´ll look for promotions or buy the digital edition, it´ll play Fortnite/FIFA/CoD/Geshin/Apex etc with GREAT visuals and 60fps. Physical media is pretty much dead anyway.

So the question is, how much above 100M? Well it depends, i´ll go with the same as Ps4 should end up with (if Sony drops the price and keeps supporting it) so around 125M units.

As bad as it sounds yes lol. Had a few friends die in the  late 30s to early 40s