By this time next year how much will each console have sold: Predictions

[DerNebel]

Zero999 said:

DerNebel said:

That can't be said like that. Nintendo stretched the Wii U launch over 3 weeks, we don't know how much stock Sony would have had available for Japan if they'd done the same thing. They could have allocated their whole Black Friday stock to Japan for example. Fact is the PS4s launch numbers are what they are because of limited stock, which was something the Wii U never experienced, so the whole launch comparison is kinda mute.

so basically, the same total numbers we have now.

Well basically all PS4s we have sold till now could hypothetically be counted as launch sales, if in that scenario all PS4s that were shipped to NA after launch, would instead be shipped to Japan for the launch over there, if that's what you mean by "same total numbers", then yeah you're right.

Like I said though it doesn't really matter, the limiting factor for the launch of those consoles was supply not demand, even the Wii U sold out in it's first week, kinda forgot that, my bad. 

The simple fact that it just wasn't difficult to find a Wii U last december shows though how much lower the demand for it was in comparison to the PS4, since it will be very difficult to get one of those this christmas.