Sony is about to win 2 generations in 1

[Raze]

HikenNoAce said:

Raze said:

HikenNoAce said:

At the current rate of ~13M per fiscal year? I don't think it will take a LONG while.

Also, just because it takes a while does not mean that it will not pass the Wiis.

You're being overly generous with those numbers. The current gap between Wii and PS3 sales is approx 100k/week, or 400k/month. That correlates to 4.8 mil/year at the current pace, which we'll say holds mostly true through slumps and holidays alike. Let's even be generous and say the numbers are 7mil/fiscal year, which is FAR more logical. The current Wii lead is 22m, which would take over 3 years, given these logical numbers, to catch up to the Wii.

Both systems will fade away to dismal numbers within another year or 2. The PS3 will come close, but it won't surpass the Wii, unless they start handing them out for free.

Not at all. 16.5M PS3s + PS2s sold in FY2012. Also, 45% of PS3 sales occur in the last quarter so during the holiday season. In other words, it is foolish to consider the current weekly sales to be the same as the weekly average over a year.

I already took holiday sales into account with my numbers. I am talking about the GAP between Wii and PS3 sales, not the total sales. If the current ratio holds on as is, then the PS3 is expected to sell 100k more units than the Wii per week, roughly about. Just because there's a holiday, it doesn't mean only one console's numbers increase, every console's numbers increase. You aren't taking into account that the Wii is still selling too.The ratio is 5:1 in PS3's favor. So even if the PS3 sells 1m units next holiday, the Wii will be in the range of 200k, leaving the gap of 800k units recovered by the PS3, Tack that on to 4-6m units sold through the rest of the year for PS3 vs 1-2m  Wii's sold in the same timeframe, you're still looking at a yearly gap recovery of 7m units or so.

The gap between the two will be somewhat consistent for the remainder of this year at the very least (as the Wii is dirt cheap now, and few people are even aware the Wii U exists yet). Even without the Wii selling another unit, it'd still take close to 3 years for the PS3 to catch up.

The reality is, it'd take an act of God for the PS3 to outsell the Wii, LtD. The numbers are against the PS3, and numbers don't lie. I know you want to wave your Sony banner all high and mighty, but you're likely going to have to wait till next gen to hoist it again, as the PS4 doesn't really have much competition at all.