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Gamerace on 21 March 2013
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TruckOSaurus said:
Max King of the Wild said:
TruckOSaurus said:

Let me fire up the "What If"machine...

Seriously, games sells consoles so no matter the manufacturer if a console has the games it will have the sales to go along with it. Nintendo games have a very wide appeal but they do have their limits and for 3 generations now they've pretty much had to do without 3rd party support so in this sense yes they are limited to a certain number of customers (people who like Nintendo games) but in a magical What If world where Nintendo's console is on par with its competitors and where they get the exact same 3rd party games, there's no reason why they wouldn't sell as well.

Cool what if... However, you must be under the impression I said the competitors would sell more than 60mil in that instance

With about 247mil consoles sold in the 7th gen, it would be pretty surprising if none of the 8th gen consoles didn't cross the 60mil mark.

Personally, I'm with Max on that point.   The market has changed.

Sony themselves said "The living room is no longer the centre of the [gaming] universe - the gamer is".   This is fundimentally true.  As such I expect experiences that follow the gamer wherever they go will slowly take over from home based consoles.

Currently that's smartphone/tablets but could become game tablets or cloud-based services that you can play on any device seemlessly.

That's still a ways off but certainly before the end of this new gen.   I'm guessing 30m WiiU, 40-50m for PS3 and 50-60m for 720 (or maybe reversed, will have to see MS's actual offer and it's appeal to the mass market).  

Toss in SteamBox, Ouya and Smart TV that could themselves become gaming systems (cloud) and this is a whole different ballgame than it was in 2006.