Wii U hardware up 685% in UK!

[Max King of the Wild]

Viper1 said:

Max King of the Wild said:
Ps1 outsold the SNES starting off. Ps2 outsold the Ps1 starting off. The Wii outsold the Ps2 starting off... but no one is going to outsell the ps3 (a second place console) starting off this next gen... Okay guys

Indeed.  Those are the 2 exceptions to the common rule that a new console is 'always' outsold by its predecessor in the first year.

There are too many factors involved for me to want to elaborate at the moment but with few exceptions (as already noted and they were cross-platform exceptions at that) the new console it usually outsold by the older generation model in the first and sometimes even second year depending upon regional launch staggering.

I would say that those 3 "exceptions" to the common rule are actually evidence for the trend that the first place console will outsell the older generations starting off. If we assume the Ps4 will be the leader (which many people think it will be) then we can assume it will follow the pattern of outselling previous gens... Especially when Sony will wipe out over a quarter of the Ps3's sales for the year in a single weeks worth of data