Mummelmann on 12 February 2014
| ghettoglamour said: Most of you guys post lower total numbers than last gen. Do you really think this gen will be the very first that witness a decline in total sales? Because I don't think so at all. Just for the record, last gen: Wii 100m + PS3 90m + 360 85m = 275m I think this gen could end up like this: PS4 150m Xbone 100m WiiU 40m Which would make up total sales of 290m, just slightly above last gen. There are a lot of predictions with 200m or less total sales, which would be very bad and I think it's pretty unrealistic. |
Shorter generation, branching market, faster pace of market movements in consumer electronics and more reliance upon revisionist hardware tied to software playing on the same strength.
Personally; I think it's highly unrealistic to expect growth in the 8th generation, seeing as how the vast majority of the market leader's installed base from the 7th gen have jumped into other forms of gaming. That would require the core gamer market to grow by 70-90 million or so in home console alone. Not to mention the fact that we're already seeing this contraction playing out right before or eyes, or have you not noticed that the 3DS/Vita combo is set to sell probably about 100 million combined where the DS/PSP combo sold 240 million?
