There’s a lot of talk on social media this week concerning the quantity of avid gamers nonetheless utilizing their PS4 consoles. Sony introduced throughout its newest earnings name that it had shipped 59.3 million PS5 consoles. However, the PSN as a complete has round 118 million month-to-month energetic customers, that means at the very least half are nonetheless enjoying on PS4. (Although a really small proportion of the numbers can be occupied by PS3 and PS Vita as nicely.)
This has, as is so usually the case on social media, led to an outpouring of overwhelming negativity. Many really feel avid gamers aren’t transitioning to PS5 as a result of of its lack of unique video games, with a big proportion of main titles like EA Sports FC, Fortnite, and Call of Duty Warzone nonetheless completely playable on the last-gen console. We’re certain it’s an element.
However, it’s at all times been the case that there’s a gradual transition from one system to the subsequent. For instance, PS2 offered a ton of models after the discharge of PS3, and was nonetheless supported lengthy into its successor’s life cycle. It’s true that the PS3 died a comparatively fast loss of life as compared, however this was extra down to Sony’s want to transfer on from a tool which had proved difficult to develop for (and a very lengthy era).
