"You do realize that PS3 is going to start to level off and decline after next year and its undertracking the PSP by a good margin, 30 million more is being generous, and PS2 is already in decline, maybe another year to two years of decent sales, but it won't sell as much as last year this year and will drop off pretty fast, so the PS family definetly wont be over 300 million by 2015, so my prediction is definelty possible"
The PS3 was either going to die or get better, I think Christmas '07 was very important for it and its clearly got a lot better. So no, I dont realise that the PS3 is going to level off, if anything its having a small resurgance at the moment. Its got a lot of games coming this year & its only going to get cheaper. Plus it looks like Blu ray has sadly won the HD war, so that will be a factor too. All in all, no I dont think the PS3 is levelling off, if anything its just getting out of 2nd gear. Predicting its going to sell another 20 million more when its clearly on the up is ridiculous.
Lets look at the PS2. The PS2 HAS been in decline for years. But in the grand scheme of things thats not saying much & it'll continue to sell for years to come, just like the NES did in Japan. The PS2 is LONG from dead. Actually the PS2 2008 sales are almost exactly the same as they were at this point last year. They've dropped from 140k to 120k, which is around what 12%? The drop off between 2006 and 2007 was more like 50%, but its seems to have levelled out. The PS2 will probably shift another 6 or 7 million units in 2008. Even if the PS2 starts to drop at DOUBLE what it has done in the last couple of years it'll still sell another 30 million units over the next 8 years.
Youre stance that "the PS2 is done but end users dont care about graphics so the Wii will flourish like the NES" is completely hypocritical.
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