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Well, enthusiasts make up most of early adopters, and that audience does appear far less price sensitive than others. I also assume that people still have the Covid-era shortages in mind, and thought it'd be safer to get one asap instead of waiting and risk a repeat of 2020-2022.
Do you know if Circana includes PS Direct numbers? Astral_lion seems to assume they don't. If that's the case PS5 Pro could actually be ~20% (?) ahead of the PS4 Pro, assuming the 2 week PS Direct exclusivity is boosting their market share a lot.Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social)
(PS5 Pro also had a solid start, with units in the same ballpark as PS4 Pro's launch, but I'll break that down in more detail in a few weeks).
Not much to add to this but that Sony had already reported PS5 Pro preorders were "slightly stronger" than PS4 Pro and that the PS4 Pro at launch (US November 2016) sold 242K across 3 weeks. PS5 Pro will have 4 weeks in November 2024.
PlayStation is set for record years indeed.
Not true, Sony said last year that PS5 sales will decline from there on. Meaning that PS5 had its peak last year and every year afterwards will see a decline in PS5 sales.
I'm talking about revenue & profits.
Increased revenue and profits were guaranteed already from the mass layoffs that happened.
So? It's still on an absolute juggernaut performance and all this before GTA VI.
I do feel people are assuming a bit highly that the Pro will be the only means to play this game well when GTA will be focused on the wider userbase.
They do. Hardware/physical software is always projected to 100% of the market anyway.
It's just hard to estimate the share of PS Direct when there is no historic data what a 2-week exclusivity window leads to.
Even if GTA6 plays well on the base consoles (which I have doubts about), PS5 Pro will still be the best way to play either way. And disregarding technical performance, GTA6 is going to push units across the board regardless.
Hardcore fans come first, the ones who buy at launch buy almsot everything.
Preorders at other retailers were good the first day of availability, if there were an impact from PS Direct then there would've been some sign of lower demand elsewhere.
I had no idea NPD/Circana started tracking weekly sales. Wish we were privy to it like we are with Famitsu. The higher granularity in the data for sales in Japan reveals a lot more than the monthly tracking for the U.S. (not that we get anything official even for that anymore). Modest system-sellers get lost in the noise with monthly tracking, and it can take something really major for its impact on sales to be really noticeable.
