| Damkos said: I just wondered about the overall decline of sales. I love my Wii U and the only thing that bothers me is wheter it'll get assassins creed 5. I can't seem to believe that PS4 and 3ds will be selling so well forever. 3ds was perfect in 2013, it's falling a bit now. PS4 might be perfect this year, but it can't go like that forever. A decline in 2015? quite possible IMO. |
Thing is, the Wii and DS brought a lot of people who had never really played, and also, I believe, people who quit after the NES.The Wii was like NES 2.0
So, with those people gone, we see a scenario that´s more like the 6th generation (PS2/GCN/Xbox/GBA) or even the 5th gen.
PS2 - ~155 million
GCN - ~22 million
Xbox - ~24 million
GBA - ~80 million
Combined = around 280 million
No console will do PS2 numbers.There´s a (high?) chance the Wii U will perform worse than the GCN.The 3DS might (or perhaps, it seems likely) sell worse than the GBA, but I don´t think the difference will be very big in the end.
The X1 will do much better than the Xbox, even if things right now look bad in Europe, I just don´t know if it´ll sell as well as the 360.
The PS4 will probably do pretty well.Right now, I don´t see any reason why it shouldn´t at least sell around 80/85/90 million, but this generation just started, lots of things could happen.
Overall, we´ll see a contraction, but don´t mistake that for the apocalyptic scenario some are trumpeting.
