David Reeves: This Christmas Not That Critical

[omgwtfbbq]

ckmlb said:

omgwtfbbq said:
I'm sorry but at the current rate PS3 will barely hit 10 million sold by the time Christmas '08 begins. Meanwhile Nintendo will be approaching 30 million. I don't see Sony coming back from a lead like that.

Sony needs to pick up their game and they need to do it NOW.

 

You're assuming the Wii still sells out till then and PS3 sales don't go up which are both probably wrong.

 

I never made that assumption.  Of course both are probably wrong. In general the second year of a console's life ends up with many more sales than the first, unless the console is a complete failure.

So I expect both the PS3 and Wii sales to be much higher next year. Wiis by a much larger margin (since they're currently lmited by production which I don't expect next year)

However, I did not want to bring my own bias into the matter so instead of guessing future trends I based my numbers on current sales data. The point I was trying to make is that by Christmas next year if Sony don't pick up their game, they'll be finished.