PS5 Has Now Officially Outsold Every Xbox Console Ever Released (ign.com) 35
Sony reported that PlayStation 5 sales have reached 84.2 million units, officially surpassing every Xbox console ever released. IGN reports: The PlayStation 5 is now up to 84.2 million copies sold after shifting an additional 3.9 million units during the three-month period ending September 30, Sony has announced. That's a slight increase on the 3.8 million PS5 units Sony sold during the same quarter last year, but it's an impressive result given the price of the console has actually gone up over the course of this generation, rather than come down. [...]
As an aside, unlike Sony, Microsoft does not make Xbox Series X and S sales figures public, but analysts have suggested the combined Xbox Series effort is being outsold by the PS5 by at least a factor of 2:1. The more appropriate comparison for the PS5 then, is with its predecessor, the PlayStation 4. Five years into the current console generation, the PS5 is slightly behind the PS4 (the PS4 sold-in to retailers more than 86.1 million units after five years on sale). But Sony has said this console generation is its most financially successful ever, with sales surpassing those made during the reign of all previous Sony consoles.
As an aside, unlike Sony, Microsoft does not make Xbox Series X and S sales figures public, but analysts have suggested the combined Xbox Series effort is being outsold by the PS5 by at least a factor of 2:1. The more appropriate comparison for the PS5 then, is with its predecessor, the PlayStation 4. Five years into the current console generation, the PS5 is slightly behind the PS4 (the PS4 sold-in to retailers more than 86.1 million units after five years on sale). But Sony has said this console generation is its most financially successful ever, with sales surpassing those made during the reign of all previous Sony consoles.
I hope PS5 Linux sees the light of day (Score:1)
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Check eBay for the BC250, its basically the rejects of the PS5 APU (binned lower than Sony wants in their consoles), used for "crypto", and now being sold for pennies on the dollar on the used market since they're not good for that anymore.
https://github.com/mothenjoyer... [github.com]
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I doubt Sony are subsidizing them at this point in the console's life. Sony are known for iterating through consoles through revisions that cut costs so maybe the first revision is subsidized but subsequent ones aren't. Models like the digita
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Obsolete game consoles (Score:2)
Likewise, a lot of people use obsolete Mac computers, and a lot of people (including myself) use obsolete Nintendo Entertainment System consoles.
As I understand it, the "obsolete" label applies to a video game console once its manufacturer is no longer certifying new games for it. For example, Shakedown: Hawaii is the last Wii disc game in Europe, the last Wii U disc game in North America, and the last PlayStation 3 game. See list of last licensed games by console [fandom.com].
Hahahaha (Score:2)
Damn.
Re: Computers. They're all just computers. (Score:2)
BB guns vs. shotguns. (Score:2)
PCs are far more important to modern gaming than the PS5 can ever hope to be.
There was a question between maybe 1998 to 2004 if consoles would become the dominant game platform culturally and in terms of development.
We've now answered that question, and the answer is "no."
You mean how many hardcore gaming PCs sold by comparison?
Trying to lump "PC sales" into this comparison, is beyond disingenuous. The one running an embedded POS video card and 16MB of RAM playing browser games on a lap-tablet is more the cultural norm.
Tell me what the culture looks like when you compare shotguns to shotguns.
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Nah.
There are about 1 billion PC gamers worldwide. A number and proportionality no console manufacturer will ever attain.
1 in 8 humans on this planet (including third worlds), are PC gamers with rigs equal to at least a PS4 in performance?
I'm just gonna stand waaay back here and let you pull that evidence out of your ass. Guessing you're still counting Billy Mitchell in there too.
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1 in 8 humans on this planet (including third worlds), are PC gamers with rigs equal to at least a PS4 in performance?
Probably. Literally ANY graphics card released in the last 8 years is more powerful than the entire PS4. Now, if this was a typo and you meant PS5, than ignore this and see below.
I'm just gonna stand waaay back here and let you pull that evidence out of your ass.
There is no way to get hard evidence, too many different ways to purchase or build PCs. We can only aggregate the data that is available (Steam charts, for example) and extrapolate estimates from there. Those estimates suggest there are ~1.9 billion daily PC gamers, and ~300 million of them have PCs that would be classified as "hig
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I'm not sure where you're getting that "~1.9 billion daily PC gamer" stat. The latest I can find from Steam is that they had ~70 million daily active players. A ~27x multiple seems implausible, even accounting for the facts that the figure is 4 years old and that not everyone games on Steam.
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Plus GoG, Epic, Riot, Battle.net, GeForce NOW and other game streaming services, WeGame for China, etc...
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Let's assume a sizeable percentage of humans on this planet are simply too young or too old physically to be using any type of gaming system.
Let's not. Old people can and do play games. And children can start playing video games as early as 2-3 years old - I did.
Let's also assume that a sizeable percentage of humans are busy working and/or have one of 58,972 other hobbies to do on this planet other than gaming.
Irrelevant.
And your claim is that one-fourth of the entire human race is not only online, but is on a high-speed connection and gaming DAILY?!?
If we define high-speed connection as 200mbps or faster, than over 70% of the entire world has it. So, yeah.
I have NO fucking idea
You sure don't.
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And your claim is that one-fourth of the entire human race is not only online, but is on a high-speed connection and gaming DAILY?!?
If we define high-speed connection as 200mbps or faster, than over 70% of the entire world has it. So, yeah.
I have NO fucking idea
You sure don't.
Since you claim to, prove it with factual statistics. 1.9 billion. Daily. Define gamer first, since Grandpa still playing Pac-Man is something Capitalism already forgot to give a shit about.
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Jesus H Christ, my brother, instead of stupidly arguing points that are easily found, how about you look for your god damned self: https://www.google.com/search?... [google.com]
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Tell me what the culture looks like when you compare shotguns to shotguns.
you americans...
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What is this? A US elementary school?
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Exactly.
It doesn't matter if I can get a 15 seat bus for the same price or less as an SUV that holds 5 people. I don't need room for 15.
Same thing when PC vs console. It doesn't matter that the PC can do all kinds of other shit, when I want is something to play games on.
That's especially true given that the PC introduces a whole suite of complications I don't want to deal with.
On that note, I'm in the market for a PS5, not a PC.
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Now if you read any review for any of the PC gaming handhelds you will unanimously see people saying Windows is the problem here. It's the barrier.
Unless they start selling pre built PCs
Does this include things like Steam Deck?
on a best buy shelf
If you refer solely to physical distribution through big-box electronics store chains in the United States, what's so special about that sales channel?
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PC-first games from smaller studios (Score:2)
Until they see a trailer for a game that looks interesting, click through to learn more about the game, and find that it's available for (say) Linux, Windows, and NES. A lot of games from smaller studios get released on PC first, or PC plus an unlicensed release on a long-obsolete console, while the studio awaits approval to obtain a devkit for the major modern consoles.
Bad headline (Score:5, Informative)
This is a misleading headline, making it sound like more PS5s have been sold than all Xbox models combined. What this article is really saying is that more PS5 consoles have been sold than any individual generation of Xbox console. So more PS5s have been sold than Xbox 360, and more than Xbox One, etc.
Less PS5s have been sold so far (84 million) than any previous generation. The most popular was the PS 2, having sold 160 million.
https://www.vgchartz.com/chart... [vgchartz.com]
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Disagree. Headline doesn't stay "combined". That's the magic word that your brain stuck into the headline, for whatever reason.
I do agree it could be better worded, but most headlines fall into that category.
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Slashdot pop up ads back -- Mongo DB slide up ad? (Score:3)
Anyone know how to stop/block the mongo DB slide up/pop ad from scrolling up on the page?
Really annoying, slashdot cant just do a normal ad now using moving ads to distract us more.