The ps6 handheld hybrid hopefully still affordable and the real ps6 should easily get over 50m combined. Pack in a great exclusive maybe the rumored uncharted, the first title of the god of war remake and it will be off to a good start. It will not sell as fast as ps4 or 5 but by decreasing the price over time it should easily reach 100m at the end

If it has a 700$ handheld and a 900$ more powerful home version, I can see it having Xbox One numbers.

They may not roll back on their decision, but they will certainly regret it.

They definitely won't regret it. It doesn't matter how many people Switch to PC or boycott PlayStation. In the console space, what are people going to do? Move to Xbox? Xbox who have no interest in competing anymore and port nearly all their games over to PlayStation? Nope not going to happen. Switch 2? The Switch 2 that isn't capable of playing games at 60fps because it's CPU isn't capable of it. People think they can damage PlayStation like they damaged Xbox one back in 2013, but these are very different times. Sony knows they've got themselves into a position where they can't be beaten anymore. People are screaming and shouting without realising that nothing they can do can bring Sony down now. They reached the top of the console market and that's never going to change

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Don Mattrick probably thought the same in 2013.

Same as Ken Kutaragi in 2006.

Same as Yamauchi in 1996.

History repeats itself.

Sony and Playstation aren't Apple. And even Apple isn't immune to collapse. Corporations, like empires, rise and fall. The only true constant is change. Playstation, Nintendo, Microsoft, Apple, etc are all destined to disappear, it's just a matter of time.

You greatly overestimate Playstation which isn't even guaranteed to remain for another 15 years if their foolishness continues. Apple and Microsoft should be around for possibly a 100+ years, but they too will disappear one day.

Nintendo might beat Playstation in profitability again as soon as 2027, and Valve may already be ahead. People should stop acting like PC doesn't compete with consoles. The differences between PC gaming and Playstation are fewer than Playstation vs Switch. These categories really are becoming meaningless in more than a sense.

Xbox is slowly disappearing, but PC and Nintendo can affect Playstation's trajectory if they remain more "consumer friendly" on the surface.

Yamauchi >

limited N64 tech restricting games to 4~64MB. He also lost the support of most third-party developers due to the cost of the cartridges. 

Kutaragi >

created a monstrosity that was very expensive and displeased the developers.

Most games ran better on the Xbox 360. Plus, the PS3 came out a entire year late.

Don Mattrick >

They produced a console that was more expensive and less powerful than the competition.

They also incurred the community's wrath with DRM—a move Sony immediately rejected.

They failed to deliver good games, while PlayStation became the most awarded publisher of the last 13 years.

Now... Please, where is PS6 problem?

Last I checked: Sony remains the leading publisher in terms of awards over the last 5 to 10 years—the one behind some of the most highly anticipated games.

Leaks suggest the PS6 will be cheaper than the next Xbox.

Third-party relationships remain fantastic.

Nintendo targets a different market niche.

In the instances cited, a major blunder gave a huge advantage to a rival... people here want to believe the PS6 is doomed, but they forget that no rival has managed to gain a significant edge over Sony.

What are you talking about? Many games run at 60fps on the Switch 2. Just recently both Pragmata and Resident Evil Requiem are 60fps. Metroid Prime 4 and a few others have 120fps...

There's no point trying to reason with him, he's a troll whose only real purpose here to is to downplay the "enemy" brand while shilling for his own.

The problem is less choice and less exclusives from the big publishers. Digital only consoles just dont do well. 82% of Playstation 5 consoles sold have a disc drive. Its probably more like 85% because of the strong sales of the attachable disc drive. Im not sure how strong their releationship with third parties are anymore either. Not many make exclusive content for Playstation anymore because of the cost of AAA games. Street Fighter 6 went multiplatform(again) after disappointing sales from SF5. Final Fantasy Remake trilogy have gone multi-platform because of disappointing sales. Playstation is just not what it used to be. And havent really been for a while. Thats probably why they had their lowest month of console sales in 26 years and I dont think that will change anytime soon. Maybe GTA6 will give it a boost, but thats pretty much it.

Add to all this the biggest backlash I have ever seen in my 35+ years of gaming and its hard to think they will be the leading platform of anything in the future.