the_dengle said:
All it would take is for AC Liberation and BO Declassified to be more popular than the naysayers are expecting them to be. Maybe Soul Sacrifice actually DOES do well in Japan. Maybe something big gets announced at TGS. Maybe memory card prices drop. A lot of things can happen between now and December. Besides, right here in this thread the predicted sales are less than 200k short of 5m -- and you don't see how it's possible for Sony to manage to get that 200k?
Right... and a price drop (though not such a drastic one) would be both easy and unexpected, right? XD |
They've already said they aren't dropping the price, not to mention that they can't afford to sell it at a loss... And COD and AC won't sell more than a million copies this year, and will likely boost sales by 50-100k. Don't take that graph to heart. Whilst awesome, even slight sales changes drastically affect the year sales. 5mil it stands, which, when your main competitor sells 20mil in just 6 extra months and with 3 fewer months (and one less holiday) in Japan is disappointing. Spin it how you want, because even 7, 8mil (which are both far from likely) would be disappointing for a new console, and Sony's forecasts reflect that.
