The PS4 Won’t Sell as Well as It Used To
It’s hard to tell exactly how well the console will sell in 2018, though fans should expect that it won’t be pushing the ridiculous numbers it yielded a few years back. The PS4 has another hardware unit it has to compete against in the form of the Switch, plus Microsoft’s Xbox One X is being received well by consumers. The industry is much more fragmented now than five years ago, plus Sony’s former CEO, Kazuo Hirai, stated back in April 2017 that the company expects the console’s sales to slow down a bit.
The console is still fairly on par with the PS2’s sales milestones, having just reaching 70 million units sold this past December, and it’s likely that it’ll reach the 100 million threshold that so far only the original PlayStation, PS2, Game Boy, DS, and Wii have surpassed. This year sees a ton of great first-party, exclusive releases on the platform as well, though they likely won’t push units like Call of Duty. The PS4 will undoubtedly still do well in 2018 and beyond, just don’t expect it to be making as many incredible headlines as it used to.
