Matt Piscatella: PS5 unit sales are trending 7% ahead of PS4, and 66% ahead of PS3 launch-aligned in the US
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Japan is also trending ahead I believe.
So Europe is the issue. It's also where games and hardware are most expensive.... maybe they need to have a targeted push in the region.
So Europe is the issue. It's also where games and hardware are most expensive.... maybe they need to have a targeted push in the region.
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Agree and the cost of living crisis in Europe doesn’t help either.
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Cost of living crisis also exists here. Inflation has wreaked havoc and ppl aren't making nowhere near enough to keep up with cost of living.
In Germany many PC players started to buy PlayStation consoles for their exclusives, now they don't have to anymore.
Yes, while in other parts of the world, they try to help people by lowering costs of fuel etc, in europe they tend to just raise fuel prices further along with taxes. So many people just cant justify buying even a console.
So PlayStation does better on markets where PC wasn't traditionally strong?
There we have it folks, mystery solved, the impact of PC ports is a significant decline in sales in Europe and other PC centric markets.
Yet to be seen if PC port is really hurting console sales in europe
2 issues hurting sales in europe imo
1. Ps5 prices have actually gone up compared to launch(afaik that didn't happen in the USA or Japan, i think only the digital edition price went up in the USA)
2. Economy all over europe is screwed by huge infalation and interest rates
2 issues hurting sales in europe imo
1. Ps5 prices have actually gone up compared to launch(afaik that didn't happen in the USA or Japan, i think only the digital edition price went up in the USA)
2. Economy all over europe is screwed by huge infalation and interest rates
I was a PC players that got into PlayStation because of PlayStation and console exclusives, this does not come as a surprise to me.
People underplaying the impact of exclusives were wrong all along.
The economy is what leads them to buy GPUs and Nintendo Switches ass well? Please, get real.
If you find anymore hate comments or videos from pc gamers, please add them here.
Under the recent circumstances, any company would want to be pushing positive news. They would do 'creative accounting' in order to push good news.
I don't believe the PS5 is selling 7% better than a console that was tracking above PS2 for a while.
The PS5 is 800K behind the PS4 in the same timeframe which includes the Pandemic, cost of living crisis and supply shortages.
PC ports haven’t affected it. Well not this gen it won’t.
The Switch is affordable for many still and GPU sales have dropped 40% last year.
Which company?
This data is coming from circana not sony.
They have no agenda to make these console sales look better, that would lose them customers who subscribe to them for this data being as accurate as possible.
Says you.
Why is the expectation for the PS5 so low? Why should've we have expected that PS5 would do considerably better than the PS4?
Why was Sony expecting to sell 25m PS5s but then they ended up selling less than 21m?
Let's also take into consideration the massive drop in sales of Xbox. Where are they going instead?
Says facts.
The PS4 is the benchmark we have to use.
The PC Ports haven’t afffected PS5 sales cause they are similar to PS4.
Also this fiscal year the PS5 sold 20.8 million which is better than any PS4 year.
The PS5 is in fact doing better than expected considering we haven’t seen a price drop, lack of new AAA games and inflation in a major region.