archbrix on 14 October 2013
| 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 |
You really should take a look at the link Zorg provided a few posts up. According to that you're wrong about PS1 vs SNES (not until '97) and even PS2 vs PS1 (not until '02). Of course the Wii beat everything right away; it was a phenomenon at a mass market price. So it's clear that it's the rare exception that a new console can come along and trounce the competition in its first year.
Now, the PS4 might beat the PS3 in 2014 given all of the circumstances (as I said, we'll see), but WiiU in its first year losing in sales to the "8 year old" PS3 and 360 given their strong support/low prices in 2013 is not surprising, which was my entire point.
