JoeTheBro on 02 January 2014
| NobleTeam360 said: I find it funny that people try to reference PS2 to PS3 to get an estimate of how much the PS3 will sell while PS4 is out. |
You're right. PS1 needs to be factored in too. I mean that was a successful console with a very successful follow up so it better mirrors PS3 and PS4 for the moment. That would put the PS3 at around 110 million sales.
Or should we extrapolate since the PS1 sold 30 million post PS2 launch and the PS2 sold 50 million post PS3 launch, so PS3 should sell 70 million post PS4 launch? That's kinda ludicrous though. Better to do it by percents. PS1 sold 43% more units after PS2 launch and PS2 sold 50% more units after PS3 launched. Extrapolate that percent to 57% and the PS3 will sell 125 million. Averaging that to 46% seems to make more sense though. Applying it to PS3 means 37 million more sales or a total of 117. Legit.
