Ail said:
jarrod said:
To put things in context, PS3 sold about 3.5m in it's first 3 years. Saturn sold about 5m in the same comparable timespan.
PS3's on the rise now, but sales are accelerated by the slim+price drop (encouraging both new AND repeat buyers) and probably the best year of software releases it'll ever see (FFXIII, RE5, Vesperia, Yakuza 3, etc). PS3 selling more than 8 million by the end of 2012 would be an absolute best case scenario. Consoles tend to hit a peak, and PS3 won't move 1.5m+ annually for the next 3 years running. PS3 does have an advantage in this cycle being lengthened though, something that prematurely cut off sales of other secondary consoles like Saturn or GameCube.
If anything, I'd say Wii's more likely to rebound after this year than PS3. It still has the biggest console game yet in the wings (DQX, which will likely almost double FFXIII's sales), it has a stronger upcoming 1st party lineup (Galaxy 2, Other M, Zelda vs GT5, WKC2) and has only just had it's first pricedrop and alternate color in the past few months. Lots of potential. |
Last I checked the PS3 was still more expensive than the Wii with the Wii price drop done.
Considering you can only drop the price as low as 0 yens I fail to understand how the Wii has more opportunities left to drop the price than the PS3........
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I'm saying Wii has more room due to the number of drops it's had, not the scale. They also have more room there though thanks to profitability... Sony's taken a $5 billion bath on PS3 so far, they moved heaven and earth to get the slim price to where it is but their hands are likely tied for awhile as to how far/fast they can drop any further. Nintendo could probably drop Wii to $99 tomorrow and still break even, and utterly demolish the competition.
Nintendo also has other opportunities in terms of colors (they've had 1 alternate) and redesigns (none yet). PS3 already had it's slim, Wii hasn't yet.
