You said it “just needs to sell 20-30 million extra units”. 117+20=137 which is 23 million away from 160. You’re only showcasing your issues with either math or your memory here.
And you missed my point was that your points are out of touch and overhyping it as much as herorat. First of all, you’re basing your point around the PS6 home console by itself outselling the PS4 which in these current day circumstances is as unrealistic as the S2 outselling the S1. As said, it’s unlikely the PS6 will do as well as the PS5 which itself continues to stray further away from the PS4’s lifetime sales and is unlikely to reach it unless a miracle happens to suddenly make everyone much richer.
Second, you use the fact that PS home consoles have historically never sold below 80 as your evidence that PS6 home console will be guaranteed to sell over 80 but you continue to ignore that PS has historically also never remotely been a threat to Nintendo’s handhelds and Nintendo has historically dominated in handhelds. You claim PS6 handhelds will have all those 3rd parties that Nintendo doesn’t have but you continue to ignore that so does PC handhelds and PC handhelds haven’t done shit to either the S1 or S2. Now, of course a PS handheld will likely do more and be more mainstream than PC handhelds but it’s not going to be some brand new breakthrough you seem to think it is. Your posts right now are the same thing as Valve diehards thinking the Steam Deck will be the Switch killer. Third, with the expected prices the vast majority of people will not be buying both PS6 handheld and the home console. If both systems are the same exact ecosystem they will buy one or the other. Only the most brand loyal of brand loyalists will get both and that’s a tiny niche minority of PS owners. I’d say around the same amount as PC handhelds. And that means the handheld will logically cut into the home console sales, in a way that the previous handhelds did not. So if the handheld sells 20-30 million that could be 10-20 million cut from the home console sales.
Also, I have to note the cognitive dissonance in you claiming PS has nothing to lose by going into handhelds and are simply “expanding themselves” while Nintendo making a dedicated home console would be suicide. If Sony makes a handheld that does exceptionally poorly they absolutely would not be happy about that.
You’re ignoring or not aware that the fact that they’re “expanding” into handhelds is more than just “they’re on top of the world and are willing to throw money into any new area that they want”. (They wouldn’t be shutting down multiple studios if that were the case.) Part of is also due the fact that home consoles as a market has matured and has been steadily shrinking now while handhelds/hybrids are a potential new growth market. There’s a reason why the entire industry has been following this same direction. If Sony’s PS6 handheld does poorly that would absolutely be a big blow for them even if they do still have their home consoles as a backup.
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