This thread is the best thread ever. I come every couple days to get a good laugh, It never disappoints.
Like the next gen thread. I still miss it sometimes. This one lack a few things to be as crazy but we got some good moments already. The end is sadly near...
In a console gen where the ratio has been roughly 2:3 in PS5's favor... You're telling someone to drop their spoon because they aren't dumb enough to believe that PS5 will suddenly outsell the XBS of not just 3:1, but more than that?
I'm afraid it's you that has no idea what you're talking about.
PS5 is probably a little more than 3:2 right now but this is not really important. Now that the supply issues are gone we can see the real demand for the PS5, and the last few months have seen the PS5 sell like crazy in most markets. In Japan they sold
more in one month in 2023 than 4 months of 2022! So we can be optimistic about PS5 sales for this year. Sony upped their estimates for 2022 at the end. So the same could happen this year. ZehDon do have a point that using really overtly optimistic estimates for Sony VS low estimate for Xbox is not fair. But saying that Sony would sell 15 millions this year when we know that 2023 should be better than 2022, and that Sony sold more than the 18 millions that they planned to was not fair too.
The whole 60 millions PS5 VS 25 millions Xbox by the end of the year was just an exageration too, but we know that Sony PS5 sales are accelerating and the Xbox ones are slowing. It is true that the actual market favors the PS5, and that Activision gain more money in Sony ecosystem than in Xbox. This should not change, unless Microsoft does something drastic( like taking no cut or a lot less for this year COD) or find a way to sell a lot more consoles than before. Or making a lot of people enter Gamepass (with Starfield, there is a chance that this game interest them more than the previous offerings, I am interested at least) and stay, wich will be harder. And then making a deal(what kind, when Sony already has one) with Activision. This is if the deal fail, of course. If it succeeds talking of Activision rapport with Sony get useless.
But I do not understand why so many people believe that Sony would loose if the merger is blocked. The more console they sell the more Activision can sell games in it. And if the deal is blocked I do not see Microsoft just giving them 3 billions and then going to them and ask if they want more. Any deal with Xbox would need for them to be paid first. And I can see Microsoft going to the courts and saying to Activision that they will not be paid until all recourses have been taken. Unless there is a clause against that?