| CGI-Quality said:
You're misunderstanding his point. Whether or not Microsoft continues on as long as Sony, they sell in less markets, and unless the 360 stays ahead by a good margin outside of those markets, after the generation has concluded, the PS3 has a chance at overtaking the 360 because of the extra markets it does sell to. Outselling the Wii is a whole other matter and I doubt the PS3 can gain the kind of momentum to do it. OT: Of course they don't need to ditch the Vita, especially when the PS3's start was far worse and look at how they were able to turn it around. |
He's probably counting on residual sales, long after the platform has any real relevance as Sony did keep both the PS1 and the PS2 in production long after either could have been considered significant gaming platforms.
It's entirely possible that Nintendo will keep the Wii in production long after the Wii U debuts given the extremely low production cost, the main issue is whether 3rd party support could keep the platform alive with a slow trickle of uninspiring, low budget games that are only being developed for the Wii due to the low development costs. It seems doubtful Nintendo has any more first party hardware sellers left in the tank for the Wii as their efforts and focus should transition to the Wii U.
So, there's a small possibility the Wii stops production a year after the Wii U launches.
Whether the PS3 will crawl to over the 100m mark remains to be seen under such a scenario.
The Xbox 360, on the other hand, should be in essentially the same situation as the PS3 in terms of being a lower budget development platform once the Xbox 3 and PS4 debut. Production cost-wise, the 360 is already cheap. The HDD is literally the only expensive component left (not an issue for the 4GB model).
Since a significant percentage of 360s are currently being used as media center/hubs rather than strictly gaming consoles, it would proably be a pretty bad call to drop production any time soon after the Xbox 3 debuts, meaning, 360s will keep selling.
