Wii U Can Still Outsell Xbox 720 and PlayStation 4

[Mnementh]

kitler53 said:

Mnementh said:

kitler53 said:
is ps4 and the next xbox can't outperform wiiU's current sales trend i'm going to cry have have to quit gaming. i will not move to tablets or pc.

Consoles survived with the sales levels of the NES and SMS. To go back to the size of that time would mean an incredible big contraction. I think a possible contraction of the industry will not be that big, so I think dedicated console-makers can survive. It will be rough time though.

dunno, budgets are a lot bigger today (wiiU, ps4, nextbox) than in the GC/xbox days let alone NES days.  with all the bankruptcy we've seen this last gen i feel like even a small contraction (10-15%) could be the breaking point for many.

 

oh and, ps4 is guaranteed to sale 350 million units.  ..year one.  yep, you heard it hear first.  :P

The budgets can shrink again. Yes, that will be hard for the big companies, as the gamers expect always bigger, more polished, better looking games. But we don't expect that from Indies, so they have smaller budgets. If in a crash some of the big publishers burn away, some indies will grow into their place. Also some of the big will survive. EA has already found a way to sell yearly only slightly updated games. So I expect at this point, that EA can survive a video-game crash. So I probably see some publishers/devs go out of the market, but others will survive and new companies might try to get into the freed places.

And thanks for the unreasonable statement. I say it here: Your prediction about PS4-sales of 350 million in the first year are completely unrealistic. With MS making the right decisions every sane person gives the PS4 300M max for year one.