Am I the only one expecting another price hike for the PS5 too this year? The new memory prices haven't hit it yet. Come to think of it, it didn't hit the NS1 either, but that will probably be the least affected console by the price hike.

Guys, we can't talk about Sony or the PS2 here anymore >.<

I suppose it's difficult because they are an important factor when trying to calculate the total sales of the Switch 1.

If the PS5 increases in price, perhaps some new users decide to try the Lite before going for a Switch 2, for example.

I didn't talk about the PS2, and the PS5 is a console that actually has influence on the video game market today.

A big thing is the Switch only shipped 1.36m last quarter when the DS shipped just over 2m from October-December 2011 so it is continuing to underperform the DS post successor, this time even more so when it needs to be outperforming it to still have any shot of reaching 160m. The following quarter it shipped only 0.44m so if things keep going the way they're been going the Switch will ship below 0.4m this quarter.

If it suddenly stops underperforming and starts matching the DS going forward that would mean just another 3m shipped for a final total of 158.3m. This is why the odds of it getting to 160m at this point are basically zero with the only speck of hope left being a very surprisingly high forecast for the next fiscal year though I consider the odds of that so remote that it would be a huge shock.

It has now beaten the DS but it might finish around 159 million or so. 160-162 million seem possible still, but not the most probable. 2026 and especially 2027 and onward are going to be a crawl.

You just talked about it.

Is it in the realm of possibility that nintendo forecasts over 2 million this year? I think if they forecast 2.5 and achieve that, then its definitely possible

Yes, of course it is in the realms of possibility. However not in the realms of likeliness.

Given that it's barely outsold it's Jan-March quarter with it's latest holiday one, it's looking very hard to have just 35-40% drop forecast for the next fiscal year. It will most likely do something around 500-600k for the last quarter there to end the fiscal year with 3.8M. That is 65% decrease from the previous fiscal year. Not that anything points to lesser decrease for the next fiscal year, but let's just say it will 50% drop. That will still be 1.9M, far from the 2.5M you mentioned. With that you get to 157.8M. Another 50% drop for the following fiscal year, gives you around 900k more, which results in 158.7M. Another 50% for the fiscal year ending March 2029 get's you to 159.2M. And if you want 2030 as retirement year, you can squeeze another 50% drop number of just 200-250k more, that will finish the total number at no more than 159.5M.

Im assuming 156 like nintendo projects so im basically juat thinking if they could get 2.5 that would bring us to 158.5 and they could get another 1.5 total in the next year or two. Im using simple maths. There could also be a bump in sales for all we know for whatever reason. Who the hell knows