kitler53 said:
chocoloco said:
I really see a difference in some holiday boosts this year. All the consoles from last year had bigger holiday boosts then Wii U did this year.
This update though is one that looks positive. The PS4 and X1 look like they are keeping the industry alive and relevant in terms of new hardware. Believing that the PS4 can continue to sell better then the Wii is unlikely, but I can predict that the X1 and PS4 together can keep pace or out pace Wii sales. A very big hope for me especially If one can do it alone like the PS4 has even better for the industry.
Handhelds drop is slightly pleasing I suspect it is a drop caused by greater competition from other tech that provides games. This "competition," is a good thing to me as I think it will lead to more variety in games.
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the HH graphs only go through week ~95 because vita lags though. if you look up at the 3DS graph at week 95 it's still almost even with DS but really starts to fall off around week 100. so when you see a "mere" 25% HH contraction you've got to remember that the 25% contraction is purely from psp/psvita lag (which is more than 25%). when 3DS's contraction kicks in (~15% so far) with vita's massive contraction (~66% i think) the overall HH contraction will average out to something like 35-40%. Not, imo, healthy or competitive. basically, we went from a world where we could have 2 viable handheld platforms (1 phenomenal, 1 decent) to a world where we can have 1 viable handheld platform (1 decent).
ps4/xbone has a great start but 2 datapoints to not make up a trend...
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The DS was phenominal, yes, but it is very probable it came close to hitting the glass ceiling in terms of popularity in the countries it was sold to. This could also be applied to the more expensive platform in the PS portables. I am not as convinced as some people seem to be that the market will nor, could grow forever in the countries they were being sold to. Basically, because there are too many unique platforms now. And unlike others I do not necissarily think it a bad thing, mostly an evolution in the way people play more often.
Yeah, I had to remark about PS4 aand X1 mainly because it is encourging for those companies. I hold back most judgement for a least 6 months. Kind of makes sense why updating this is not worth doing too often.
