S.Peelman said:
Mandalore76 said:
S.Peelman said:
At the end of the 8th Gen I think it'll be around 82 million, so in the 80-89 range.
I don't see it catching Wii numbers, as a lot of the casual crowd and the 'impulse buys' will be lost to Nintendo. I don't see it fail either, because Nintendo fans alone secure like 40-50 million sales, and I think it'll be able to sway some of the PS360 crowd too.
As a Nintendo fan myself, of course I hope it'll be stellar and sells like 200 million, but realistically that's never going to happen :P. |
Nintendo fans alone did not secure 40-50 million sales for Gamecube. This isn't a knock on Gamecube by the way. I owned one and enjoyed playing games on it. I just had to point out the wrongness in that statement.
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It's not wrong per se, the Gamecube era was the Playstation 2 era. PS2 was so dominant, nearly everyone went there. Even Nintendo fans. It wager a lot of them came back (or new people became fans) for Wii and DS this Gen.
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Who do you consider a 'Nintendo fan' then if not someone who supports the company while the competition is doing better?
If the people you counted in the 40-50 million were just people who flit to whatever console is the most dominant at the time, then they're not really fans of anything in particular.
