PS5 (Contrary to PS4) is one of the strangest consoles we’ve ever seen, not so much because of its hardware but because of the launch scenario it was forced into due to the global coronavirus pandemic, and because it then suffered from a galloping lack of action during two years. And that alone explains many of the decisions developers made during this time.
This feeling and certain decisions made by Sony and the third party have caused that today, there is a pool of users of PS4 who have not even considered taking the step towards the new generation. And don’t think that these are a few Gauls who resist the invasion of the Romans. We want to say about 60 million
Why not upgrade to PS5 with PS4?
Furthermore, it happens that Sony has made many efforts to facilitate this step, allowing unprecedented compatibility between Japanese machines and allowing you to enjoy almost the entire PS4 catalog on PS5. But they don’t even want to take the plunge, so what do you think is the reason for this stubbornness?
The first might be not wanting to spend money that they would rather spend on something else, but what’s really behind that decision is that it’s not worth it. They don’t see the need to retire their old PS4 when they can play all the major exclusives of Sony
Furthermore, if we examine the list of launches over the last four years, we see that in fact, practically all the big names in the Sony They also ended up on PS4: God of War 2, Horizon Forbidden West, Ghost of Tsushima, etc. There is therefore no need to try to take the plunge and continue playing the same game but with 500 dollars less in your pocket.
Less than a generation left
I have to say that 60 million players In this situation there are a lot of them and they can make the difference between the PS5 being a successful console or a console that surpasses the record reached by the PS2 with 158.7 million machines sold. Currently, the next generation of Sony It’s on pace to hit 60 million consoles sold, so subtracting a similar amount of potential customers might seem outrageous.
SO Sony It is clear that he needs to wake up and launch exclusives just for PS5to encourage players to convince themselves that it is worth it and that they will find different games compared to PS4. And the truth is that the generation has so little time left that the Japanese don’t have time to correct their course. Even if they themselves want to entrust everything to the PS5 Pro, don’t you think?
