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Soundwave on 30 July 2013
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Arius Dion said:
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According to these numbers, the GCN beat the PS3 too...lol.

Just give the Wii U until the end of next year. You'll see some big numbers.


GC wasn't being sold at $599 though.

GC wasnt the cheapest Blu Ray player on the market

I don't think Blu-Ray was really that big of a sales point early on.

Blu-Ray still to this day isn't as popular as the DVD format, a lot of people simply haven't seen the need to upgrade.

Back in 2006, the selection of Blu-Ray titles was extremely limited and most people were not going to pay $600 for that even with a Playstation attached to it.

The PS3's horrid sales through its first year pretty much tell the story. The PS4 at $399.99 will easily beat the PS3's first year.


thats not much of an accomplishment


Agreed that beating PS3/Wii U/Dreamcast level first year sales is nothing impressive. PS4 should crush those numbers pretty easily if supply is readily available.

XB1 might have a slower start due to the $100 difference.

TBH, I'm not so sure PS4 (or Xbox 1 ftm) will actually fly off the shelves when they release. I'm actually leaning toward a huge decline in gen 8 compared to gen 7.


I agree actually, we're headed back to gen 6 level hardware numbers I think. Gen 7 was an unsustainable boom period mostly brought on by the wild success of the DS and Wii bringing in so many casual/lapsed players and also the HDTV boom benefitted the PS3/360 over time. It's not repeatable.

PS4 - 100 million (barely); will be the mass market and developer console of choice but get stiff competetion from MS.

XBox One - 70 million; MS will power through the US market to get a respectable number, Kinect 2 becomes more of a factor as price drops.

Wii U - 30-35 million; mostly Nintendo fans only.

Is how I see things shaking out. So fairly similar to the PS2/GCN/XBox days.

But beating PS3/Wii U/DC 1st year numbers won't be much of an issue for the PS4. That's a verrrrry low bar.