Plezbo on 19 September 2012
| Slimebeast said: Exchange rates have nothing to do with it. The only factor that determines how powerful PS4 and X720 are is the upper limit of power consumption of the GPUs that you can put in a console. With that said I believe they will achieve 8 x X360, or around 2 Tflops of performance, compared to around 650 gflops in the Wii U, meaning they are 3 times as powerful as the Wii U. 3 times as powerful is not huge, but this combined with the big publishers discrimination and bias towards Nintendo will assure that the Wii U won't win next gen. I believe Wii U will sell around 50 million lifetime while X720 and PS4 around 100 million. |
This is ridiculous. 360 and PS3 won't ever come close to 100 million, and their follow ups won't sell any more than they did. PS2 and PS1 sold so many consoles because they were easy to develop for, and had all of the games. PS3 and 360 were tough consoles to start developing on. It took significant investment to reach a level of graphics and online integration that was up to par with what Sony and MS were willing to license. This will not change next gen. Also, gaming has shifted. You will get fewer and fewer people making impulse buys, or using their system as a DVD player like PS2, since they can play the game they want on their phone/tablet. I would say that all 3 next gens sell around 60 million.
