Last FY they also held their forecast for "morale". Nothing is certain but we'll have a better idea once this Q3's results come in Feb 2nd.
PlayStation 5 has sold over 30 million units worldwide
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What's shaky...? Games that stick to 60 fps are flat out 60 fps throughout with essentially no dips at all. Most games are incredibly stable.
Besides... Now feels like the right time, with most games moving on from cross-gen development.
I've owned one since launch, but buying the Dead Space remake as my first title? That'd be something else! :)
I'm sorry but i'm simply not interested in remakes,remasters or playing same games with a little more whistle and bells. For example I bought PS4 to play Bloodborne,Last of us2,rdr2,god of war 2018,spider-man
There is none of that game for me with PS5 now. Suicide Squad seems promising so we will see :)
To be fair, only Bloodborne came out in the first 2 years of PS4's lifecycle. The other games were 4+ years later.
I mean while I don't think you should discount horizon and gt7, you've got Astro bot, demon souls, returnal and ratchet. FF16 coming this year along with psvr2 stuff and spider Man. Your waiting should be over for those games soon
So sounds like they can do ps4 numbers at lowest if demand keeps up. Maybe more if nothing like COVID destroys supply in 2027-28
I'm feeling 120-130M for the gen is very possible. I think Xbox too is going to see good increases in market share
Don't forget the jet engine noise. Do not miss (unless I'm playing ace combat - that was true immersion)
PS5 is a beast.
Some incredible numbers given the conditions the console was released to.
More true statements.
Some incredible numbers given the conditions the console was released to.
More true statements.
I've just learnt about this meme through your comment. Cheers 👏🏻
I couldn't buy one for so long I lost interest.
If there's a PS5 Pro I'll try to get one of those around launch and likely fail again. The supply constrained era truly sucks.
If there's a PS5 Pro I'll try to get one of those around launch and likely fail again. The supply constrained era truly sucks.
It's almost as if unprecedented global events happened during PS5's launch that didn't happen during PS4's launch
It's as if the main competitor managed to ship and sell more units during those same global events.
It's a poor result that's definitely not pleasing to Sony which undoubtedly wanted a faster and cleaner transition from the PS4.
Is this a joke post? They're outselling MS 2-1.
They basically sold everything they could produce. Close to PS4 numbers is incredible when you consider the pandemic and component shortages.
Chip shortages have had more to do with their sales deficiencies.
Hence why they have amended forecasts to make up for the sales deficit in the later portion of the console life cycle.
MS didn't ship and sell more. Much less in fact.
Unless you are talking about Nintendo, who had to manufacture more well established, older and simpler hardware. That would be an apples and oranges comparison of course.
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Japan's been buying lots of consoles these past weeks, and PS5s still sell out there
Nintendo isn't Sony's main competitor though. Xbox and PS basically run the same games and are similar consoles, launched in a similar timeframe. The Switch is something else entirely.
There is never going to be a mainline PS console that fails to sell 100 million, again. And even the one that didn't was close.
You're talking about the Switch, right? The 7 year old machine? The machine that has a die area a full third of the PS5? The machine with a fifth of the transistors? The machine with about a tenth of the texture mapping units? With a tenth of the shading units and a quarter of the ROPs? That machine, yeah?
You're saying they can make more units? Well I'll be damned.
I haven't seen a single PS5 in stores yet.
The PS4 was easily avaible some months after release. Massive diffrence.
The PS5 would have beaten the PS4 numbers if no supply issues.
Guess they don't understand why the Series S was easily available everywhere and the Series X not.
That gen was strange all over.
Even the "winner" only sold like 101 million units.
And this is why I murder Stockpile Thomas on every playthrough :P
Good numbers for Sony, it'll be interesting to see if it keeps up or surpasses PS4 in the coming years. I reckon it'll be close.
Have you just completely missed what was going on with component shortages the past couple of years? I'm genuinely asking because that's the only way your comment makes sense.
And I'm pretty sure there is a ton of context that can be applied to this. That I wont really waste my time posting.
Exactly.
There have been issues with breaking the glass in stores for consoles (both PS5 and Xbox Series X, and to a lesser extent Switch OLED) so stores have been limiting quantities behind the glass, and with lesser staff it becomes more challenging to timely replenish them.
The other issue is, the current spaces on the shelf for hardware wasn't designed for the massive PS5 boxes so it's also become challenging to get them to fit.
Stores luckily have online reservation and pickup, but that becomes challenging to monitor as scalpers have gotten hip to the system and order them all up and slowly pick them up one by one.
In short, there isn't a perfect system in place at retail yet, but PS5 availability has increased significantly (in comparison to earlier COVID times) and demand has decreased a bit (COVID less, scalpers getting less for them, must havers got one and inflation/price at $500 isn't as impulsive as the PS4 for mainstream shoppers) so I'd expect to see them on shelves much more commonly starting this month.
The only time I've seen one even close to a store shelf was walking into a Target and seeing someone walk out holding 2 of them. I just hope we're close to the point that we can stop doing cross-gen everything. Right now my PS5 feels like a PS4 Pro-Pro.
Impressive figures considering the pandemic and shortage. It's clear they aren't meeting the demand just yet. In fact, they've increased prices pretty much everywhere but in the US.
It's a shame MS does not share their numbers anymore, I'd be curious to see where Series S sits.
It's a shame MS does not share their numbers anymore, I'd be curious to see where Series S sits.
They will be lucky to be able to produce 20 million by the end of this year, 30 million in one year is ridiculous.
Anyways the good news is this will speed up the process to move on from crossgen development.
I don't know why people continue to give bad faith posters the time of day. Fularu post is so left field from Sony's milestone its genuinely does not make sense.
Sony wouldn't bother releasing the milestone if they were not pleased with the milestone.
