| Mr Khan said: The better question: is the market in decline because Nintendo's in decline? 7th-gen growth is largely due to Wii/DS, after all. If Nintendo's dropped the ball such that they're not doing the heavy lifting anymore, how will the 8th gen stack up? Could be the first instance of gen-over-gen decline in the history of home console gaming. |
I don't see them doing all the lifting. 6th gen they dropped the ball and PS2 did a pretty amazing "heavy-lifting" job. If the grow ends now, it will be just because the console market is done, and I think its too soon to take conclusions now.
It's soon to see a decline in consoles, the gen started at 2 months and only one competitor is out. PS4 or 720 could have monster sales and everything would be all right. And people are jumping too soon in the "Wii U doomed" trend. PS3 and Genesis had rough starts and did pretty well. Wii U is having problems competing with PS360 because of the price of the HD twins and the large game library. When the sucessors release, they will become old stuff and Wii U won't. And if we see a decline, it will be on portables, since mobile is killing them. So, if portables still are able to survive, consoles are completely safe.
