Sony fans getting over confident?

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Turkish said:

Mummelmann said:

Lawlight said:
Be honest, guys. If the PS3 can sell 77M (still selling well) while launching at $599 and probably end up as the highest selling system of the gen, what do you think the PS4 will do?

Quite a bit less. Mainly due to shorter hardware cycle, branching market, slight drop in consumer spending habbits due to funds being diverted elsewhere in the entertainment arena and overall drop of gaming in the West.

I disagree. Traditional gaming is still very popular in the west, look at the PS4 hype, the reveal had the most watched video on youtube last month that is usually dominated by super bowl ads.  Shorter hardware cycle doesn't mean its gonna sell less. The reason this gen was so long is due to the manufacturers trying to recoup lossess they made early on. The PS3 was €600 and needed a lot more time to reach mass market price.

A cheaper PS4 will sell more, will reach more people in shorter time. The downside is that PS4 will not have exotic hardware like PS3 had at launch, but the positives outweigh the negative: the console will not have heat problems and next gen will be shorter than this one.

youtube views are meaningless actually bot views and repeat views all add to numbers.  how many times did you watch it?  if just 100k viewers watch 10 times each thats 1 million views. also consider numerous sites with embedded streams.

im not so sure about how next gen will do considering all the austerity bs going around the world and with the politics in america crapping the economy.  also consider steam and who knows what apple will do within next gen.

only thing that will add to ps4 numbers is how ms handles  the nextbox, games,  a different live model and all the drm talk.