As analysts struggle with trying to interpret Sony's latest moves and Nintendo's upcoming console reveal (as well as Microsoft's unrevealed plans), it may behoove us not to pay too much attention to what those analysts have to say.
I found this nugget when looking for news on Sony's financials today.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/analyst-ps3-to-win-next-gen-war-6155912
Analyst: PS3 to win next-gen war
The Yankee Group predicts 30 million PS3s, 27 million Xbox 360s, and 11 million Wiis sold in North America by 2011.
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(No need to show the whole article).
The current numbers (three months since the end of 2011) are 42.64M Wiis, 36.97 Xbox 360s, and 22.48 PS3s. So these numbers were just a bit off.
Even more interesting in that the market size was predicated to be 68M and it turned out to be over 100M.
(For reference, in North America, the PS2 sold 56.35M, the PS 38.94M, the N64 20.11M, the Xbox 15.77M, the Gamecube 12.55M, , the Dreamcast 3.90M, and the Saturn 1.83M)
All actual sales data from VGChartz's Platform Totals and is for North America.
The point here is not to blast any particular console or any particular analyst -- but rather to show that predictions must be taken with a grain of salt and that past performance is not indicative of future success.
Mike from Morgantown
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