People here really try to predict PS3 performance without a perspective about emerging markets where Wii U/PS4/720 won't matter at least until 2016 because of pricing issues. Wii legs died because it won't be a option in emerging markets, while PS360 will enjoy healthy sales in that area. PS4 and 720 won't matter in the same manner that PS3, Wii and 360 were massively outselled by PS2 at least until last year on these markets.
| Wyrdness said:
It won't pass the Wii due to a number of factors, for one this isn't the PS2 that console had no alternative while the PS3 has the 360 around which shares a lot of it's games with a superior online service where as PS2 had a library almost entirely of exclusives you couldn't get anywhere else. Wii U is a newly launched console and has yet to really get it's supply chain flowing and big guns out yet in 6 weeks it shifted 2.5m which only the Wii itself has sold more at launch in fact it's only a few K short of what the Wii sold back at launch, comparing PS3's current sales to a launch machine and using it as a basis is flawed because both 360 and PS3 were outsold at their launch by PS2 for months before they began pushing forward. For starters the U has outsold the PS3 every week in Japan since launch and that in itself is a problem for the PS3's long term sales because most of PS2's sales in the HD era were from Japan as eastern developers still released games on it for a while after 2007 and with the U becoming Japan's choice of platform this early on it will cause further sales drops when the PS4 arrives. |
Launch sales aren't a good indicator. We have a thread here with launch numbers and they don't provide any usefull information. If they did, Vita should outsell both PS3 and X360 lifetime figures combined.
