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Sony CEO Yoshida - Company to achieve sales of more than 22.6 million PS5 units per year making it the largest ever in history of PS
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The most interesting part of that graph for me is that the PS1's strongest year was better than the PS2's. Crazy.
Sony's mistake or internal readjustment years after
My data coming from Sony's own financial results shows PS1 peak year at 21.6M in FY98 and PS2 peak year at 22.52M in FY02
Im not saying it's not selling as much. I think other users are saying it's selling slightly lower than One in the same time frame. I don't know how they are coming to that conclusion, as in what data they are looking at.
my thought is it's too early to tell for that specifically because they can't make enough units.
I don't think anyone is saying it isn't "selling much" even if it did Xbox One numbers again that would still be good IMO. I do think until Xcloud on smart TVs and phones launches Formally, there is a cap on Xbox market globally of 50-80M but that can always change
my only guess is XSS is manufactured less because people want the premium model, used games, etc and I believe both XSS and PS5 DE are like 20% of all units, so either way they're much less quantity and selling out quick
Nice!
I'll be grabbing the slim/pro/whatever as soon as it drops. This will be a very good console!
I'll be grabbing the slim/pro/whatever as soon as it drops. This will be a very good console!
You really think it's as simple as one goes up so one goes down? Both can go up. MS and PS aren't just competing with each other but entertainment mediums that fight for your free time. I'm surprised that you think simply because of this "renewed" interest, what metric is that by the way?, means automatic sales. Xbox isn't just about selling consoles, just more the service. You're thinking too black and white here.
100%, this is the most exciting aspect of high selling PS5.
Huge indication that 1st party and console exclusives will be more frequent and more qualitative than PS4's.
Interesting, thanks for the info. Either way, I had always assumed the PS2's best year would have blown out the others.
It'll be interesting to see what impact the pandemic (an subsequent re-opening) has had.
Gaming was obviously booming while people were stuck at home. Some folks re-kindled their love of it (like myself) or are new and will stick around. Some will be outside all summer and lose interest.
I personally think the explosive growth of the industry will continue, but it'll be interesting to watch.
Gaming was obviously booming while people were stuck at home. Some folks re-kindled their love of it (like myself) or are new and will stick around. Some will be outside all summer and lose interest.
I personally think the explosive growth of the industry will continue, but it'll be interesting to watch.
The problem is that there is not as much stock. I believe MS ordered greater than Xbox One numbers but manufacturing has delivered fewer due to shortages. There have been other threads for that.
I personally know of a few people that owned Xbox Ones and no PS4 last gen that switched up this time because they got tired of missing games like Spider-Man and God of War.
That and gaming's just growing in general.
it slows down after a while but if you say so the ceos and the investors aren't happy.But didn't Sony claimed similar things for PS3?
Sony believes PS3 could top PS2's 10 year sales
www.destructoid.com
Apologies, that comment about Xbox was directed in general.
Very much disagree - they hit their stride immediately on release and haven't stopped.
I don't disbelieve they can sell that many PS5s but all evidence I've seen over the last 8 months suggest they are struggling with production of them.
Saying that, I highly doubt they would put that number out there to shareholders if they don't think they can produce them. Not reaching that target would tank the share price.
Saying that, I highly doubt they would put that number out there to shareholders if they don't think they can produce them. Not reaching that target would tank the share price.
This was from a shareholder's meeting, not a random conference or interview. You don't give random pr stuff at a shareholder's meeting.
The poster was probably referring to their huge AAA IPs, which they still have to release (with the exception of Spider-Man Miles Morales, which isn't a mainline title tho)
Horizon 2, the new God of War and Gran Turismo 7, they're all coming in the near future and it's going to be insane when they'll hit the market
Huh? they release two AAA games already. Ratchet and Clank and Returnal was AAA
Demon souls was PS5 only. Destruction all stars too.
In the future unless you have a full roadmap of Sony in the next two years then there is no point of this.
I think that, contrary to the narrative about scalpers, that PS5s are indeed filtering into the hands of gamers at a speedy clip. It's not readily available to the more casual audience who might pick one up as a birthday or Christmas present off the shelf at a store. But given a concerted, consistent effort, they are attainable in the long run for the hardcore crowd. I'd look to this forum as evidence that the enthusiast segment is well on its way to fully upgrading to next gen (for whichever console).
Their production has actually been really good. They've shipped and sold more PS5s than PS4s in the same amount of time. There is just a ridiculously higher amount of demand this time around
Question raised by some posts here:
Doesn't XSS's continued lower popularity and wider availability versus XSX and PS5 indicate that Microsoft's theory of the case - that customers are today more interested in services and subscriptions than hardware - incorrect? The device that is built for Gamepass and XCloud, and is cheaper and presumably in lower supply, is pretty available, but the higher supply, more expensive, premium ones are extremely hard to pick up.
We talk so much about Gamepass on here, but ignore that hardware still seems to be prime.
Doesn't XSS's continued lower popularity and wider availability versus XSX and PS5 indicate that Microsoft's theory of the case - that customers are today more interested in services and subscriptions than hardware - incorrect? The device that is built for Gamepass and XCloud, and is cheaper and presumably in lower supply, is pretty available, but the higher supply, more expensive, premium ones are extremely hard to pick up.
We talk so much about Gamepass on here, but ignore that hardware still seems to be prime.
The PS4 is just so long in the tooth at this point that people are desperate to jump to something better. I think that's what's driving demand right now. Even if there aren't a ton of true next gen exclusives, the fact that the PS5 just makes your PS4 games better all around is a huge selling point. The PS4 couldn't say the same about PS3 games because of the compability cutoff. So in that case you had a better reason to wait for exclusives. In this case, why wait if you have the money?
Things might change in the future, but aren't the Series consoles selling less than the Xbox One? This renewed interest still hasn't materialized in the actual numbers, it's still just a perception and we don't know how things will play out.
It's literally all down to production. The One wasn't selling out at this point. Series is. Also the Series X is apparently the hardest to mass produce of the current gen.
Which reminds me, anyone know if Microsoft is still using that CO2 neutral production method for the Series, or did they abandon it because it was too slow?
This is what I expected from Nintendo when the switch popularity started to explode, but so far the scale of the games is the same or even worse. So I no longer care about "breaking records" sales.
I think we are saying the same thing. "25 exclusives in the works" and they are still selling well means the ceiling is only going to get higher once mid-gen hits.
