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PS4 hardware sell in has reached 86.1m
- Thread starter patapon
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Profit more important that selling hardware at loss especially when you have sufficient demand
There will probably be a price drop before it his 100 million, but it could cross that threshold without it.
It will absolutely move 100 million units before PS5 is released.
By January 1st they'll probably be at 94M consoles sold. 100M will be hit by next summer.
As long as it keeps selling, and if the fall off is slow and steady then Sony STILL wouldnt need to drop the price. I can't see sales falling off a cliff, so my prediction is this...$50/$75 cut Q4 2019.
Unless sales drop off massively (possible if a PS5 gets announced I guess), it should hit 100m next year.
PS2 is 155m it's impossible, unless they delay next console for another 4 years, which is not happening.
I think it will land around 120 assuming another decent price drop
But we have to see how long legs pro has with price drops too depends how much of course will be interesting
They've never approached the 99 price point that ps2 hit and that's probably a huge limiting factor
PS2 had an amazing tail end I think it sold like 20-30 million units after the ps3 launched. That kind of thing isn't happening anymore.
Ridiculous how it keeps on selling. Surely it will slow down next year as the software does in the run up to next gen? I'm not seeing anything on the horizon that can rival Spidermsan/GOW in terms of critical mass.
The Last of Us Pt. II will come awfully close.
We don't know. Probably 40-45 million.
between selling more units and earning more margins (per unit), take a guess which option corporations prefer.
Titan God mode
Fucking hell man. Are you serious?
Also this.
Only drop price at the last possible moment when sales start dwindling.
Profit is more important than moving units to Sony and the console sells extremely well regardless of a price cut. There's no reason right now to do a price cut.
I can't help thinking next gen will be starting slower out of the gate than last gen. we're all so fed up with PS360 last gen and so eager to move to PS4/XBX. this time around, we already have talks about nextgen, but I think people are still comfortable with current gen spec. you have many people saying it's too soon, or the gen just feel like it's starting to get good etc. mid gen refresh also helps.
so I'm guessing that PS4 will still continue to sell well even when PS5 is out. and if Sony can manage to sell PS4 for really low price like less than around $150 or so, I can see PS4 selling 10s of millions more after PS5 is out.
I think your range is a bit generous, as the upper limit would put it ahead of the 360. That not possible, as even in the States the 360 is about to pass the Xbox one in sales launch aligned. I say it's alot closer 40 million. 39-40 million would be my estimate.
There are some wildcard PS4 flavored releases next year. DMC5, RE2 and KHIII because it's closely tied to the PS brand, Days Gone because of surprisingly good social media numbers, and Anthem+Division could hit big and lift all boats. I still think it will be a slower 1st half next year without a price cut.
It'll depend on how much third parties want to support the PS4 after the release on the PS5. The PS2 still got a bunch of games after the next-gen launched while third party developers were eager to drop the PS3/360 once their successors launched.
