PS4
The PS5 made its debut in the fall of last year. Accordingly, the focus of Sony Interactive Entertainment shifts automatically to the NextGen console. However, because of this, the PS4 should not disappear in the near future. A new publication can be expected for a while.At least that is what the well-known analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities claims. In the context of the latest edition of "Pachter Factor", he stated that Sony is forecasting to release new games for the PS4 (buy now € 329.00) until at least 2023. The console's market share is far too large to be ignored in the near future. So it will continue to play an important role in the coming year and a half - at least.
"You can't ignore the PS4 until you have enough PS5 to cover the number of units that you think will make money with you Earning a game. You have to sell about three million copies just to break even. And if you don't have seven to eight million PS5s or ten million PS5s, you can't do that. It will be at the beginning of a console cycle always giving exclusive games because they want people to buy the console. It's like the chicken and the egg: first you have to sell some eggs at a discount so that people buy the chicken. "
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Analyst: Sony will release PS4 games until late 2023
Some gamers have been worried that Sony won't be able to tap into all the PlayStation 5 features as they also tend to make PlayStation 4 versions of the games for the new console. There have also been rumours that these versions might be the reason that several PlayStation 5 games have been delayed to 2022 (like Gran Turismo 7, God of War: Ragnarok and Horizon Forbidden West).
When Sony will focus entirely on PlayStation 5 is unknown though, but according to the most famous video game analyst of them all, we will have to wait until sometime late 2023. We're talking about Michael Pachter, who talked about all this in his podcastPachter Factor:
'They cannot really ignore the PS4 until they have enough PS5s to really cover enough units that they think they can make money on a game. You wanna sell about 3 million units just to break even, and if you don't have more than 7-8 million PS5s or 10 million PS5s out there, you just can't do it. There will always be exclusives early on in a console's cycle because they want people to buy the hardware. So it's chicken and egg, you know, you've gotta sell some eggs at a discount to get people to buy the chicken.
That's really what goes on on the exclusives. But on bigger games, if they want to sell 20 million units, they've gotta make it on old and new consoles. Truthfully, I think they'll support the PS4 through 2023. Ten years. So I think you'll probably start to see more [PS5] exclusives in 2022, and probably all exclusives in 2023.'
Is this in line with your expectations?
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