| withdreday said: Either way, the DS got within striking distance which people would have thought was possible. Plus look at the 3DS. People said that soccer moms would just buy their children tablets and be done with it. One holiday season at $169 and that was blown clean out of the water. I think you're seriously over estimating ultra casual's(i.e one's that would be enticed by tablet games) impact on the gaming market. The PS One did fine without them and ultimately the PS2 did too. I just don't know were all this "the game market has shrunk" stuff is coming from. Doing some quick numbers crunching and combining the sales for the PS3, 360 (which both split the PS2 fan base) and the Wii shows total sales of 265.87 million consoles sold vs only 204.07 million for gen 6, and that's not even counting hendheld systems, so if anything, gaming has GROWN and big time, not gotten smaller and a large portion of it happening within the tablet era including the monster GTAV. So really if tablets haven't took over by now, it's not going to. Plain and simplet unless there's a gaming crash due to high budgets or something. And the consoles are down because it's after the holiday season and this dip happens every year at this time. I love when people call gloom and doom at this time of year because it just shows they don't follow the industry that well and just like to jump on the "consoles are done" bandwagon which gets wiped out every hoilday season which is just hilarious to see repeat . But anyway, tablets well NEVER overtake or eat into the dedicated gaming market. That ship sailed with the 3DS becoming a smash hit. |
note these numbers are missing ps2 sales in hardware in addition to all other 6th gen systems and limited pc sofware sales throw the total sofware off a bit.
this is far from gloom and doom this time of year. this is 5 years in a row of consoles sales being down yoy. and if we had ps2 data and better pc data I wouldn't be surprised if software was the same.
3ds is not a smash hit. it's doing ok. The fact it seems like a smash hit is just because everything has dropped so far.
2008
Global Hardware by Platform
| Platform | Yearly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DS | 29,663,772 | (+1%) | 93,798,015 |
| Wii | 24,188,263 | (+46%) | 43,696,333 |
| PSP | 14,048,403 | (+10%) | 46,433,518 |
| X360 | 10,913,123 | (+38%) | 26,772,474 |
| PS3 | 10,204,758 | (+29%) | 19,378,853 |
| Total | 89,018,319 | (+19%) |
Global Software by Platform
| Platform | Yearly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wii | 177,044,396 | (+137%) | 260,313,964 |
| DS | 155,417,503 | (+41%) | 369,291,328 |
| X360 | 108,909,458 | (+77%) | 198,413,677 |
| PS3 | 88,788,171 | (+139%) | 127,995,128 |
| PSP | 48,081,613 | (+24%) | 137,702,412 |
| PC | 5,857,447 | (+101%) | N/A |
| Total | 584,098,588 | (+80%) |
2009
Global Hardware by Platform
| Platform | Yearly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DS | 27,573,530 | (-7%) | 121,371,545 |
| Wii | 21,295,417 | (-12%) | 64,991,750 |
| PS3 | 12,997,974 | (+27%) | 32,376,827 |
| X360 | 10,160,518 | (-7%) | 36,932,992 |
| PSP | 9,855,987 | (-30%) | 56,289,505 |
| Total | 81,883,426 | (-8%) |
Global Software by Platform
| Platform | Yearly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wii | 181,775,778 | (+3%) | 442,089,742 |
| DS | 143,959,471 | (-7%) | 513,250,799 |
| X360 | 107,118,181 | (-2%) | 305,531,858 |
| PS3 | 96,837,921 | (+9%) | 224,833,049 |
| PSP | 40,816,572 | (-15%) | 178,518,984 |
| PC | 6,187,437 | (+6%) | N/A |
| Total | 576,695,360 | (-1%) |
|
2010
Global Hardware by Platform
| Platform | Yearly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DS | 20,620,707 | (-25%) | 141,480,558 |
| Wii | 17,320,956 | (-18%) | 82,096,418 |
| PS3 | 13,896,438 | (+7%) | 46,388,642 |
| X360 | 13,253,914 | (+32%) | 49,961,079 |
| PSP | 9,243,328 | (-6%) | 65,532,833 |
| Total | 74,335,343 | (-9%) |
Global Software by Platform
| Platform | Yearly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wii | 182,659,103 | (+1%) | 624,192,454 |
| X360 | 133,691,251 | (+25%) | 439,223,109 |
| PS3 | 131,311,968 | (+36%) | 356,145,017 |
| DS | 121,814,412 | (-15%) | 634,727,081 |
| PSP | 45,302,493 | (+11%) | 223,821,477 |
| PC | 15,728,587 | (+154%) | N/A |
|
Total | 630,507,814 |
(+9%) |
2011
Global Hardware by Platform
| Platform | Yearly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS3 | 14,706,691 | (+6%) | 61,095,333 |
| X360 | 13,808,365 | (+4%) | 63,769,444 |
| 3DS | 13,250,062 | (++4%) | 13,250,062 |
| Wii | 11,522,685 | (-33%) | 93,428,231 |
| DS | 8,759,675 | (-57%) | 149,983,510 |
| PSP | 7,459,539 | (-20%) | 73,171,078 |
| PSV | 481,573 | (-20%) | 481,573 |
| Total | 69,988,590 | (-6%) |
Global Software by Platform
| Platform | Yearly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| X360 | 154,515,522 | (+16%) | 593,730,573 |
| PS3 | 148,974,355 | (+13%) | 505,393,130 |
| Wii | 135,502,236 | (-26%) | 759,686,776 |
| DS | 81,003,668 | (-33%) | 715,693,577 |
| PSP | 31,654,789 | (-29%) | 255,005,796 |
| PC | 29,631,542 | (+89%) | N/A |
| 3DS | 26,797,294 | (++89%) | 26,797,294 |
| PSV | 425,230 | (++89%) | 425,230 |
| Total | 608,504,636 | (-3%) |
Global Hardware by Platform
| Platform | Yearly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3DS | 14,112,182 | (+7%) | 27,362,244 |
| PS3 | 12,150,117 | (-15%) | 72,527,213 |
| X360 | 10,677,206 | (-22%) | 74,287,471 |
| Wii | 5,082,024 | (-56%) | 98,473,186 |
| PSP | 4,220,108 | (-43%) | 77,314,350 |
| PSV | 3,674,466 | (+663%) | 4,156,039 |
| DS | 3,012,615 | (-66%) | 152,996,125 |
| WiiU | 2,247,216 | (-66%) | 2,247,216 |
| Total | 55,175,934 | (-20%) |
2012
Global Software by Platform
| Platform | Yearly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| X360 | 132,807,443 | (-12%) | 719,541,730 |
| PS3 | 126,991,592 | (-13%) | 626,660,982 |
| Wii | 71,605,224 | (-46%) | 826,393,925 |
| DS | 39,739,571 | (-50%) | 751,824,811 |
| 3DS | 38,911,081 | (+47%) | 65,346,923 |
| PC | 32,878,549 | (+10%) | N/A |
| PSP | 15,054,141 | (-53%) | 270,522,009 |
| PSV | 8,885,821 | (+1,990%) | 9,311,051 |
| WiiU | 4,509,317 | (++1,990%) | 4,509,317 |
| Total | 471,382,739 | (-21%) |
Global Hardware by Platform
| Platform | Yearly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3DS | 14,849,340 | (+5%) | 42,211,584 |
| PS3 | 8,282,795 | (-32%) | 80,810,008 |
| X360 | 5,828,960 | (-45%) | 80,116,431 |
| PS4 | 4,397,385 | (-45%) | 4,397,385 |
| WiiU | 3,232,667 | (+44%) | 5,479,883 |
| PSV | 3,121,285 | (-15%) | 7,277,324 |
| XOne | 3,087,421 | (-15%) | 3,087,421 |
| PSP | 2,973,884 | (-30%) | 80,288,234 |
| Wii | 1,949,850 | (-62%) | 100,423,036 |
| DS | 818,084 | (-73%) | 153,814,209 |
| Total | 48,541,671 | (-12%) |
2013
Global Software by Platform
| Platform | Yearly (change) | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS3 | 140,134,242 | (+10%) | 766,795,224 |
| X360 | 118,388,077 | (-11%) | 837,929,807 |
| 3DS | 57,522,993 | (+48%) | 122,869,916 |
| Wii | 41,639,415 | (-42%) | 868,033,340 |
| PC | 27,597,707 | (-16%) | N/A |
| DS | 24,092,650 | (-39%) | 775,917,461 |
| WiiU | 15,120,179 | (+235%) | 19,629,496 |
| PSP | 10,446,098 | (-31%) | 280,968,107 |
| PSV | 10,432,567 | (+17%) | 19,743,618 |
| PS4 | 9,390,233 | (++17%) | 9,390,233 |
| XOne | 7,769,191 | (++17%) | 7,769,191 |
| Total | 462,533,352 | (-2%) |
the total numbers are dropping big time. while tablets and smart phones are on the rise.
