| Anari said: What I expect to happen next gen based on rumours, leaks and currently known facts: WiiU - 4850/4870 performance GPU. PS4 - 7850 performance GPU. 720 - A GPU between 7850 and 7770, power-wise. Nintendo will win the generation in sales. They are launching first , at a good price and have a well featured console. Plus, they are set to dominate Japan in both the console and handheld space. As for PS4 and 720, too early to guess which will take second place. |
The 360 also launched first, this matters very little, especially if you have poor support and only 1st party and late, late ports to live off of. And just how are they set to dominate Japan? If anything, Nintendo are losing their grip on Japan, especially in the home console market, the Wii has shown appaling numbers there lately and the home console market as a whole is fast becoming irrelevant in Japan compared to the global scale. There is no reason to think that the WiiU will dominate in Japan, there's no reason to think that any of the consoles will do very well there at all next generation. Handhelds will sell well, at least for now.
As for price and features; one has to consider that it will likely be compared to the PS3 and 360, so the price is far from amazing and the same goes for features, there's nothing incredible or mindblowing about, its more catching up to the norm.
I agree that there is no telling who will sell the most out of the PS4 and the 720, but I have a feeling that MS might be able to edge this one out in the end. All in all though, I don't expect any of the three (possibly four) to show very impressive lifetime sales.
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