Well unfortunately the age of price cuts is over. Nintendo clearly can deal with it as seen with the Switch it's time for Sony to git gud too.
Does no one find it concerning that PS5 sales are struggling to keep up with the nearly 8 year old Nintendo Switch?
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Because price is the reason.
There is no way to talk about PS5 sales without talk about how it didn't have price cuts like PS4.
You completely miss context if you try to push these narratives.
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Nintendo can deal or it is already cheap to begin with???
Switch price varies from $200 to $350.
The cheapest model is half of cheapest PS5 in US (outside it the difference is bigger) and the expensive model is $50 cheaper than cheapest PS5.
Do you think if Switch was $500 (€550 in Europe) it should be selling like it is?
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Well both but Switch 2 will be more expensive and I'm sure it still won't be a problem.
That is what you wish or hope... nothing is set on stone.
Nintendo doesn't have a good track record with consoles after success too.
In fact they failed most of times with successors.
I will buy Switch 2 and hope Nintendo they are successful but Nintendo already proved more than one time they are hit or miss having no ideia why they were successful.
Relax with your passive-aggressive tone, thanks.
If you want to discuss things fair enough, but don't start dictating how people should fabricate their responses.
Their consoles more often than not fail since the N64.
N64: fail
GameCube: fail
Wii: success
Wii: U fail
Switch: success
Even the 3DS was a failure compared to the DS.
Man I made a huge mistake here.
I believed the we were talking about the last quarter shipment and used the 2.4m to compared with PS4 4.2m.
But the OP is using 4 months old data lol
Actually PS4 did 3.3m in same period when PS5 did 2.4m.
The last quarter shipment will be released on November 11.
Fixed the original post with correct data.
I believed the we were talking about the last quarter shipment and used the 2.4m to compared with PS4 4.2m.
But the OP is using 4 months old data lol
Actually PS4 did 3.3m in same period when PS5 did 2.4m.
The last quarter shipment will be released on November 11.
Fixed the original post with correct data.
Oh yeah, I just meant this year... Or over the holidays. No chance for lifetime ..
I just meant over the next few months.
Not lifetime, Sony's strategy has sealed that possibility off.
They aren't a lie, it's something that happened and we all saw all retailers showing that it was sold out and that once they received new units they got sold in a few hours.
There's no mismanagement at Sony. This generation they are getting record revenue, profit or active userbase, and their first party games broke sales records with titles released in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 and in recent years earned a lot of awards and GOTY nominations.
The sales says there's no PS5 sales collapse, it's only in your mind.
As shown in the graph, the yearly hardware sales of all consoles make a curve, so after their peak (which typically happens somewhere between their 2nd and 5th fiscal year) year, their yearly sales decline. PS5 had its peak on the previous fiscal year, so it's normal to see a decline in the current and future years because this is how console sales cycle work.
Some consoles have their sales peak year a bit before or a bit later, somewhere around their 2nd to 5th fiscal year period. Everybody including Nintendo thought Switch was going to peak in the year where they sold 21M, but Switch got benefited by the unexpected Covid bump and instead of selling under 21M it sold 28M that FY. So Switch's peak FY ended being the 5th, not the 4th as everyone expected. Once passed the peak, like any other console its yearly sales kept decreasing.
Regarding the estimate for PS5's current FY, the 15M estimate is out of your ass. Sony estimated 18M.
There is absolutely no fact pointing that PS is done, you are the one trolling here. All the facts point to the opposite: this generation they are having record revenue, profit, active userbase or money spent per user in their history and almost every year their break their fastest selling first party game sales. And on top of that every year they are increasing their market share against MS and Nintendo.
I thought the question was about this holiday not lifetime.
I can be reading wrong too.
Do you think PS5 Pro will outsell PS5?
Bold claims indeed.
PS5 Pro will be at max 20% of all PS5 sales this holiday.
Said that these are still at max 20% more sales to PS5 this holiday and combined with Switch dropping sales I believe PS5 will indeed sell more this holiday than Switch.
PS5pro will not hit initial, or revised, targets.
It's not that the PS5PRO is a bad console, it's because, like the PS4, the PS5 is too good for its own good.
If Sony drop the price of PS5 people will buy that over the PS5pro. If they don't drop the price, they lose sales to the switch.
Rock and a hard place.
Asked me?
You made a claim. Back it up.
Don’t just throw things out of your backside and expect posters not to question it.
Again what are the parallels between Xbox and Playstation. Striking according to you.
Enlighten us.
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Passive aggressive? Ironic, your first and only response to the thread was passive aggressive ffs. Look in the mirror before projecting your childish behavior onto others. It’s simple, if you don’t care then don’t comment. Saying that is not dictating anyone, that’s basic etiquette.
Calling a post doomer isn’t passive aggressive, but me asking them directly to contribute or leave is passive aggressive?
What a useless and truly inept excuse of a mod. Either be fair or be quiet.
