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Forums - Sales Discussion - PS4 will sell 200 million console sales this generation?

Eikichi134 on 25 January 2014
magoghm said:

PS3 + XBox 360 sales = 160 million

Even if all of those customers decide to buy a PS4 (unlikely to happen) you're still 40 million short. Where are those customers going to come from? It's not going to be from people who bought a Wii (we now they don't care about how powerful a console is, they wouldn't have bought a Wii if they did).


In the same genaration the Wii sold 105 million. In this I don't see the WiiU passing 50 million. And now that China is once again open as a videogame market, anything can happen. I'm not saying the PS4 will do 200 but it sure as hell can pull PS1 numbers, even PS2.



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DakonBlackblade on 25 January 2014

Itll actualy sell

 

100 billion units.



Barozi on 25 January 2014

that's a bit much



AnthonyW86 on 25 January 2014

PS5, if there even will be one, will release in 2017/2018. They might even release and updated version of the PS4 earlier. It makes no sense to sell a piece of hardware for 7/8 years, just take a look at Apple.



Metroid33slayer on 25 January 2014

It will be the best selling console of the 8th generation but i think it will only just scrape passed 100 million.



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Dream_While_Awake on 25 January 2014

Wii U will be closer to 100 Million than PS4 is to 200 Million



aryu on 25 January 2014

I'm all for the PS4 being the market leader but 200mil? I just can't see that happening.



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Carl on 25 January 2014
JEMC said:

You mean? =)

No, it won't.


Yes! =) =)

Seriously though, no videogame console is gonna break the 200 Million barrier for a long, long time.



                            

michael_stutzer on 25 January 2014

If they drop the price to 150$ and it gets hacked tomorrow, why not?



magoghm on 25 January 2014
Eikichi134 said:
magoghm said:

PS3 + XBox 360 sales = 160 million

Even if all of those customers decide to buy a PS4 (unlikely to happen) you're still 40 million short. Where are those customers going to come from? It's not going to be from people who bought a Wii (we now they don't care about how powerful a console is, they wouldn't have bought a Wii if they did).


In the same genaration the Wii sold 105 million. In this I don't see the WiiU passing 50 million. And now that China is once again open as a videogame market, anything can happen. I'm not saying the PS4 will do 200 but it sure as hell can pull PS1 numbers, even PS2.

PS4 has sold 4.6m. In the same time frame XB1 has sold 3.2m and Wii U 1.6m. The PS4 was supply constrained and hasn't been released in Japan yet, so let's assume that it could have sold 6m by now. With that assumption and also assuming that they keep selling in those proportions, and the PS4 sells 150m (lots of assumptions!) then XB1 would sell 80m and Wii U 40m. It might happen, but I don't think it will.