curl-6 said:
But Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo agree that it's the 8th gen now, and they are ones who decide by releasing next gen systems. |
From a corporation resources perspective the corporations are moving their resources to the 8th generation. Yes, that is true.
But, from a consumer perspective there is still significant demand for 7th generation consoles. So, consumers have not ended the 7th generation.
10 years from now when people talk about sales of 7th generation consoles they aren't going to use the sales figures up to last December for the Wii, and this November for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. They will look at the total sales up until the console manufacturers stopped shipping them to retail. That won't be for another 3-5 years probably for PS3 and 360.
Look at PlayStation 2 sales. All sources who talk about PS2 sales talk about how it sold 150,000,000+ units. Well that didn't happen until well after the PS3 was released. Sony announced 150 million on February 14, 2011... http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/110214_e.html... So, even the manufacturers of the consoles continue to count sales of the previous generation after a new generation is released.
VGChartz platform totals numbers point to the fact generations are not considered over until the devices aren't being manufactured anymore... http://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/. Again showing PS2 over 150 million units even though that happened a full 5 years after PS3 was released. In fact, VGC still tracks new Wii, PS3, and X360 sales for some mysterious reason. If your logic was sound then why are they still showing the Wii, PS3, and 360 total numbers growing?
And do a search on google for "150 million PS2" and you will find a variety of reputable sites that support the 150+ million number as being accurate for PS2 sales.
I challenge you to find a single news source since February 14, 2011 that uses PS2 sales numbers as of November 2006 as total sales for the 6th generation sales.
