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When he says the last it means we get more gend



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I Hate PLAYSTATION PLUS

What? XboxOne 100 million? WiiU 20 million? Great analist, yeah.



I think that since this gen is shaping up to be a rather short one, the way that PS4 can get to 100 millions is by extending its life with very low prices. A lot of people are talking about how their parts are chosen so that they can go down in price. And if they get to $99 i see them selling very well even after next gen arrives. As for WiiU, not gonna happen.

Another thing is if Microsoft (and even Sony) move to a Cloud based console (although i do see them releasing at least another one) people will see these consoles as a very good and even better option.



So he is saying that Xbox is going to be more successful than ever, PS4 is going to be the second most successful Playstation ever, and the Wii U is going to be at least fairly profitable and then all three are going to give up and the whole industry is going to hold hands and sing kumbaya? He must have switched dealers. Traded up to the real good stuff.  Cause whatever he's smoking is killing more braincells than usual.



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fireburn95 said:

From Pachters latest DICE talk, which I will put on here asap!

He thinks all 'console' game will be compatible across a unified platform across PC's, ipad's, fire TV's etc.

Also he says Wii u will sell 20 mill, PS4 will sell 120m and xb1 will sell 100m

Will source asap


Riiiiiiiiiight. Because designing all games to run on all hardware makes so much sense? and its super easy to code for riiiight?

Where does he come up with these ideas? Theres a reason why consoles are physical hardware and not just some small program you can run on your pc, but lets just ignore that fact.

 

Sales predictions:

Id honestly be suprised if the Xbox One sold more than 50m, or the Wii U sold more than 15m.

 

 

Its patcher.. anything he claims needs to be taken with a gigantic amount of salt.



XBox One at 100 mill? Try half that Patcher.

I don't think this gen will be the last traditional console generation, but the following one (Playstation 5 era) will be in a lot of ways.



He still has his job because why...? He honestly has no idea what he's saying.



fathinos said:

I think that since this gen is shaping up to be a rather short one, the way that PS4 can get to 100 millions is by extending its life with very low prices. A lot of people are talking about how their parts are chosen so that they can go down in price. And if they get to $99 i see them selling very well even after next gen arrives. As for WiiU, not gonna happen.

Another thing is if Microsoft (and even Sony) move to a Cloud based console (although i do see them releasing at least another one) people will see these consoles as a very good and even better option.

I dont believe a Cloud based console will ever really compete well against physical hardware you own and run in your house.

It ll be a downgrade to what a physical product can produce results wise (graphically & lag/delay wise).

 

The only reason for such a device would be price, it could be cheap as hell for consomers to download a app and have a "console".

Thats about it. I still think a cloud based solution would get tough competition from physical hardware, and mainly end up as a cheapo solution that caters more to the lowest denominator.

 

I ll put money on cell phones becomeing powerfull enough to be mainstream gameing devices in the home,

and that eventually we ll all be gameing on our phones. To me this is much more likely than a cloud based console.

 

The future of gameing could be the Sony Phone vs the Xbox Phone.

 

I think the first to launch a cloud based console gets a kick to the nuts and fails horribly (compaired to the physical hardware console its competeing against).



His predictions are unbelievable.:
Assuming that the Xbox One can get to 20 million by month 24 (spoilers: it wont) it would take another 8 years to get to 100 million.
The Wii U will not sell 20 million.
And PS4 well... well lets just top out at 100 million because its hard to imagine the gen lasting much longer.