To those who don't understand my 60 million in 2008 prediction

[Avinash_Tyagi]

Nope, you see this gen is different, people who have never bought a video game system are buying, because of games like Wii sports, and Guitar Hero and Mario and Sonic and so on, see games are selling the system, just not the games that the core gamers enjoy, my parents and my uncle bought a Wii for themsels, becaus eof the games that Wii has, that PS3 and 360 don't they barely even know what a PS3 or a 360 is, but they know the Wii and they love it, this is why Wii will surpass the records of all other consoles.

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.

Its on the upswing, riiight, have you seen its sales, its declining, and will be back down to low level sales again, PS3 has no staying power, and is still undertracking systems like the N64 and PSP, so when I say 30 million more tops i'm speaking from the evidence, its sales are not showing any signs that it will be able to top 40 million, 2008 and 2009 will be its peak years and its not showing that it will be able to post the numbers, so yes i do believe i'm being generous.

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.

PS2 won't last anywhere near 8 more years, you got probably 4-5 years tops and by the end it'll be posting 1-2 million a year at most, because its share is going to be eaten by the Wii, it expeienced good sales because of limited Wii supply and will only drop off further as Wii supply is ramped up and price drops, right now its sales are being fueled by limited Wii availibility and the fact that its the cheapest system on the market, but those advantages are going to go away, 30 million more for PS2 is very optomistic on your part.