bobgamez said:
mornelithe said:
gcube2000 said:
i dont get how this means the ps2 era is back. 240-250k a week is worse than the ps2 era during the holidays. |
Well, first of all your facts are incorrect. The PS2 sold 500K units on it's first day, and sold 1.3m by the end of 2000. Sony only planned on shipping 3 million units by the end of March 2001, which is 2 million lower than Sony's SALES projections for the PS4, in the same timeframe.
That having been said, there's absolutely no reason to conclude from less than 2 months of sales, anything about hardware lifetime sales, but, it is encouraging to see the system selling so well, the possibility of it reaching or surpassing the PS2's lifetime sales is questionable at best, since there's actual competition (whether people consider platform B, C, D etc... competition or not) for the machine, with their own franchises, and serious financial backing that in some cases Sony cannot match.
Still, it's tracking far ahead of the PS2's early sales, so that's a great thing, and indicative of how much gaming has grown in 13 years.
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i think it means they shipped more, not that gaming has grown. because that is certainly the case with xbox one
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More likely that it's both, honestly. Gaming has most certainly grown in the past 13 years, by leaps and bounds, actually. Sure, it's not all Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo, there's tons of casual stuff, mobile phones, tablets etc... but gaming itself has grown dramatically since 2000. One just needs to look at some of the sales numbers/revenue these games are accruing to realize that.
