Is It Possible 4 The PS3 To Sell 100M B4 It's Off The Market?... I Think So - UPDATE 85 Millionz Reached

[joeorc]

kowenicki said:

darkshadow23 said:

Alterego-X said:

BHR-3 said:

 

 

Sony usually keeps their console on the market for 10yrs ...  I believe that what really slowed down the PS2 sales was the fact that this gen started in 2005 which i believe slowed down the PS2 sales considerably resulting in only really 5 good solid years of sales...

...I dont see new consoles releasing till atleast 2013 or 2014 or even later so that will mean that the PS3 will have about 3-4 more years...

You are totally mixing cause and effect. 

Hardware sells because there is demand for it, not because Sony wants it to sell. The previous generation had to end because there was no longer sufficient demand for the PS2. 

 

Also, there were only two earlier Sony consoles, and they also happened to be the two best selling home consoles ever in the history of gaming. 

What do you think, what made them sell for such a long time? The magical "Sony" logo on their casing?  Or the exceptional demand (which the PS3 lacks)?

 

Obviously, if it would be a matter of wanting really hard, every company would keep their consoles on the market for ten years,   or more, too bad it is useless if people don't buy it.

Exactly WHAT will make people buy the PS3 for another 3-4 years, considering that even more successful consoles than it, lost momentum after a lot shorter time?

 

PS2 sales

Released 2000--

2000 5.6m

2001 16m

2002 21m

2003 19m

2004 16m

2005 18m (next gen began right at the end of this year... check out that "no longer sufficient demand") =p

2006 13m (gen properly began right at the end of this year.)  check out the collapse in demand.

2007 10m

2008 6m

2009 4m

 

fixed it for you

that also means that the PS3 is in also 8 more countries this time that it would have in  previous generation which means they have to section off a number of system that are in production to be shipped off to these countries also out of the 10 million a year, now what we do not know is how many system's are being sent to these countries per shipment per month based on all the countries that the PS3 is shipped too. if you take 10 million system's a year / 36 countries is :

277,779 unit's per YEAR to those region's than devide that per month 23,148 system's per month. needed to be shipped for a full year, hell just in japan alone how many PS3's get shipped per week? or month? 30,000?, 90,000? etc.

that time table is not without an extra 8 more market's to add to the distribution of the system's just like the xbox360 there are more market's that the xbox360 has been released into than the first xbox was.

the first xbox was arround 24+ million system's world wide in four year's but the xbox360 is 37+ is 9.25 million system's for the xbox360 per year vs' the first xbox 6 million

so that's on average 3 million system's per year, remember the xbox360 was not released until late 2005 so not even a full year. it's just now going on its near 5 year when nov. roll's , that 3 million a year growth is very good. so how many region's was the first xbox released into .

"The Xbox was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe."

quite a bit less than 21!