ProtoByte
Instead of placing petty emojis, feel free to describe a realistic scenario where Playstation will absolutely crash like Xbox because the vast majority of it's installbase will move onto PC and Nintendo.
That's truly wishfull thinking.
I laughed because it's almost as if you're barely reading what I said; and because even going with your perception of what I said, you'd still be wrong.
First, let's address the smaller problem:
"vast majority". I've been told this so many times, and it's always a strawman. I don't think it will be the "vast majority". It doesn't need to be the vast majority. It just has to be enough to change the calculus. Anything close to a 50% decline from PS5 to PS6 would be catastrophic, maybe for Sony as a company all else being equal. Xbox is 10 years into an existential meltdown by dropping from 85 million with the 360 to 58 million with the Xbox One. Barely more than 30%.
If you drop even by 10%, it starts a spiral that's very difficult to get out of. This gen, Sony fucked their pipeline over and lost a lot of time, money and human resource they'll never get back with assorted distractions and terrible miscalculations. That means they're less capable of getting appealing games out. Fewer appealing games, fewer sales. Fewer sales, lower projections. Lower projections, lower budgets, less appealing games, fewer sales, there's your loop. This is what happened to MS; only Sony doesn't have the trillion dollar corporation to throw a 80-90 billion dollar Hail Mary when push comes to shove.
The larger problem is that I didn't say "they'll move to PC or Nintendo." I said that you lack the imagination to consider that there will be a damaging chunk of people that will
walk away from gaming entirely. There are things portending that already. As it is, current gen console adoption is lower than last at the same point in the lifecycle, and by a lot. Xbox One was crashing in sales momentum by 2018, so it was almost certainly in the 50 millions by that point. We have on good authority that the Series consoles haven't even hit 30 million units, and the sales momentum is still nosediving. The PS5, despite this utter collapse in competition, is 1.9 million units behind the PS4.
I'll also say this: It's an exogenous factor, and there are a lot of them to consider, but GTA6 is judgement day for at least the remainder of this decade for the games market. I won't bother elaborating on it more, because I don't think enough people are ready for that conversation yet.
