It did? Last I checked the comparison had the PS5 slightly behind after November.

The PS5 Pro will help though considering GTA 6 is next year and how much it'll be down by July I'll be surprised if it's not at least a couple million down this year.

Yep, barely. You can check here on my lifetime thread. https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=246612

The 50M announce said it was behind, cuz it was from the first week of december so two weeks later, and by then PS5 moved back behind.

Why do you think PS5 will be so much down by July ? Because of the strong perfomance in 2023's first half ?

Why is that a bit different compared to this? https://www.vgchartz.com/article/459407/ps5-vs-ps4-sales-comparison-november-2023/

That is the case yeah, it'll be extremely hard to compete with it selling 1.8m in February and 1.9m in March last year. It'll still sell really well of course, just closer to PS4 level than this year.

Possible adjustments of the PS4 sales in the last 2 months .. I will fix it now. Thanks for pointing out. So the PS5 wasn't ahead after all..

It was the only manufacturer out of the 3 that didn't have any bundles/deals.

The system is 549 and 449 Euros, It launched at 499 and 399 Euros. I understand inflation is to be taken, but by comparison, the PS4 launched at 399 Euros and by September 2016 the Slim was 299 Euros and retailers sold Phat and Slim consoles at 249 Euros on December 2016.

It's been almost 3 years and a half, Sony really needs to cut prices if they want growth in 2024. 

Yeah with pent up demand fulfilled the lack of price cuts and even an price increase happening is catching up with the PS5 now. I'd say growth is not doable even with a price cut but that will probably need to happen to keep sales from declining significantly.

Now sort out all those entry-level GPUs that companies needed to buy before Ryzen 7000 to have any graphics adapter (and some even did when there was an iGPU for redundancy and longevity of the CPU).

GPUs are holding much longer these days if you don't care about RT. With a 1080Ti you're still good for FHD gaming at 60+ FPS despite turning 7 years old in less than 2 months. The 1060  got finally replaced last year as the card on top of the Steam Charts after leading for almost 6 years, and is still on the third spot. People simply aren't upgrading nearly as often as they used to, and DLSS/FSR/XeSS will certainly not help to buck that trend, either, as are the sky-high prices.

In other words, GPU sales staying more or less stable despite the need for new GPUs going down for pre-existing customers can only mean that new customers have entered the market. There ain't masses of them, but enough for the GPU market not to crater down. The drop of Xbox clients compared to last Gen could however probably be explained by customers switching to PC instead. Also, some new markets are being conquered. For instance, PC gaming used to be extremely niche in Japan but is now increasingly gaining traction as a way to circumvent regulations as CERO ratings are for consoles only.

Not surprised to see soccer selling so well in europe.