Crono141 said:
Slimebeast said:
Crono141 said:
Slimebeast said:
Crono141 said:
You don't live in reality. There is no chance PS3 will sell 100mil in its lifetime, unless there is no PS4.
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It will, guaranteed.
You don't realize how long legs Sony consoles have.
As a comparison, in Nov 2006 at the time of the PS3 launch, lifetime shipments of the PS2 were 116 million (end of year 2006). In the 6 years since that, the PS2 has shipped another 40 million units (total lifetime PS2 shipments today are +155 million). 40 million PS2s shipped in current gen!
Compare this to my estimation of only 14 million PS3s being shipped after the release of PS4 in Nov 2013 (very likely) and you'll discover that it's a conservative estimate.
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Tell me again about how the PS3 is the best selling console this generation already.
PS2 kept selling because it was the clear winner. All the games were coming out for it. It had no strong competitors in its price range. It library at the time of PS3 release was probably the strongest library any console ever had, with the exception of maybe the PS1 before it, and the SNES before it. Not to mention that the next generation consoles cost 3 to 5 times what the PS2 cost. Of course it kept selling. It was prohibitively expensive to jump into the next generation for 90% of people.
And we aren't talking 14 million more PS3s. We're talking 33million more PS3s. Just look at the chart on the vgcharts main page. Your numbers are completely unrealistic. PS3 has no chance of hitting 100 million. Heck, I think even the Wii will only barely breach 100 million, at it only has 8 or so million more sales to go.
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So okay, the PS3 sales to consumers right now is 66.3 million. But it's only September 2012. I'm sure you don't question that the PS3 will sell at least another 6 million during the Autumn and Holidays, right, so that puts the PS3 total to 72 million by end of year. Only another 28 million to go.
And the PS4 is not even announced yet. Sony is targeting 13 million shipped PS3s in 2012 and most likely they'll target 11 million in 2013 or 10 million as bare minimum. That's 85 million right there (I switched to shipped numbers again, sorry  ), by end of 2013, and the PS4 is not even released yet.
We've just seen the new prices for the PS3. $269 will be the cheapest PS3 in North America! Don't you realize the untapped potential from future price drops? Can't you imagine several million gamers buy a $199 PS3 and a $149 PS3 in the coming years?
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Except there's already an equivalently specced machine that sits at that price point and below, that gets all the same games minus Sony's first party. The only people who are going to buy a PS3 going forward are the fanboy kids who have to have their parents buy it for them. The next gen is starting, and can start at the exact same price point as LAST GEN PS3. PS3 will not hit those sales numbers. There are better consoles people can spend the exact same amount of money on. And blu-ray players are cheap now.
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What do you mean "same games minus Sony's first party" and "there are better consoles"?
If that's X360 and Wii U you are refering to you got problems with both
Many people will choose PS3 over X360 because of exclusives and free online.
And Wii U has the same problem as a typical launch console. Not many games. You dont even get most of the upcoming multiplats for the Wii U.
Look up the sales. PS3 is on top dominating and Sony is so confident in future sales that it just released another version (Super Slim) and increased the price (at least in NA). That speaks a lot don't you think.
Next gen has not even started and won't truly have started even with the Wii U because we won't see any next gen multiplats until PS4 and Nextbox are released.
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