Next Generation Game Console Playstation 5 bypass Xbox Series X by sales. This forecast was made by an analyst Harding Rolls Pierrepresenting agency Ampere. His words are quoted by an industrial publication. GamesIndustry.biz.
The specialist released a new study, in which he pointed out that the console market has long stopped growing, despite the fact that over the past fifteen years, manufacturers have tried to enter new territories and localize games for more regions.
In particular, Harding Rolls indicated that the PlayStation 2 and Xbox had a total of 179 million consoles, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 had 171 million, and as of May 2023, only 157 million customers had found the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One..
“Despite all the efforts of manufacturers, including entering new markets, there was no significant increase in iron sales.”
The analyst predicts that the demand for the console will continue to decline slightly, but despite talk about the very early arrival of the cloudy future, at least one more generation of the prefix segment will remain a very powerful force.
By 2024, total sales of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X will reach 103 million consoles, Harding Rolls predicts, which is 6 million less than the same amount of time since the release of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Of the 103 million on the PlayStation 5, 66 million will fall to 2024 by 2024, the Xbox Series X 37 million, the analyst predicted. He is sure that the situation with significant superiority of Sony will be repeated.
At the same time, in the fall of 2023, both consoles should start well, the expert believes, since the biggest fans of the brands will rush to buy them. Here the approximate forecast is as follows (with the expected cost of iron in the region from $ 449 to $ 499): PlayStation 5 can go before the end of December with a circulation of 4.6 million, Xbox Series X – 3.3 million.
Harding Rolls admits Microsoft is better prepared to launch Xbox Series X compared to Xbox One: based on an interview with Phil Spencer, she can sell her console at a price at the level of a competitor’s console, she invested heavily in the development of her own studios and at the start will release Halo: Infinite.
But Sony’s position is very powerful right now, says an expert.. She completes the current generation with an absolute leader and plans to continue the strategy that her huge army of fans takes with a bang. A strong line of exclusives is being prepared for the PlayStation 5, and the loyalty of gamers to the PlayStation brand, established in many regions of the world, will be extremely difficult to neutralize.
PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X will be released in the fall of 2023.
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