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Soundwave on 11 December 2013
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DamnTastic said:
Soundwave said:
DamnTastic said:
Saturation of 7th gen.
Handeld gaming is getting eaten by mobiule.
But homeconsoles will continue to grow.
The homeconsole market grew 28% going from 6th to 7th gen.


That was pretty much entirely the Wii which caused that console growth. 

XBox 360 + PS3 = 160 million (give or take)

PS2 + XBox = 172 million

So Sony/MS sold roughly the same, only thing that changed is they basically split their market. 

Nintendo went from 22 million GameCubes to 100 million Wiis. That's where your console growth came from. 

I'm pretty confident they will manage to catch up to them before they get discontinued.

And are you saying the wii isn't a console? Then what's the wiiu?


I'm saying last generation likely won't be repeated. PS4/X1 will probably sell the same as the 360/PS3, just with a different split. 

There is no equivalent to the Wii this coming generation though. Wii U will be a GameCube. There's a lot of people who bought Wiis that won't be buying a console this generation. 

The growth the industry enjoyed last gen was pretty much entirely driven by Nintendo.