snowdog said:
It'll do 10m easy as long as 3D Mario and Mario Kart 8 in particular release before Black Friday. It's sold around 3m so far, should do another 3m at least between now and November and should do 4m between November and the end of the year, even without a price cut. What's going to be more interesting is whether analysts, gaming journalists and forum members will start harping on about Sony and Microsoft going third party when the more expensive PS4 and 720 have worse launches in terms of sales than the Wii U. Sony have made a huge mistake in opting for 8GB of GDDR5 and a GPU pushing 1.8TFlops, and if the rumours are true about the 720 needing to be always online and not being able to play used games then both the PS4 and 720 could struggle to sell, particularly after Christmas and the New Year. If the Wii U has the $50 price cut I think it's going to have then we could be looking at the Wii U retailing for $249.99/$299.99, the PS4 retailing for (imo) $449.99/$499.99 and the 720 for $399.99/$449.99 and the Wii U having the advantage of a bigger software library (assuming that neither the PS4 and 720 have backwards compatibility). Sony in particular could be in BIG trouble this gen. |
They probably won't even ship 10m by the end of the year.
