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superhippy420 on 13 February 2014
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DerNebel said:
forethought14 said:
Comparing January 2007 to this January....there's a huge decline in hardware sales, even if we were to estimate one week less for 2007. No one came close to the demand for Wii, and PS4 barely edged close to PS3's first January (low supply I guess, but Wii was also in that state (likely in much higher demand too) and it sold much more), and XB1 was well below 360. Wii U is......Wii U....I don't think I wanna know the state of the Vita....

#dooomed?!?!?!

There is a huge decline, but I wouldn't say the industry is doomed (handheld maybe) but more that MS and Nintendo haven't been able to provide gamers with what they want.

Also regarding the Wii it should be noted that it had freakishly large sales in its first couple years but then dropped way earlier than the 360 or PS3, so a console doesn't need to outsell the Wii now to have a chance at beating its lifetime numbers.

It will be interesting to see how things go.  The Wii had some of the most ridiculous Holiday numbers over the 1st few years ever.  December 2009 alone saw 7.4 million console sales.  It's going to be hard for Sony to sell that level of consoles during a holiday season, expecially if they can't figure out how to get their supply going.  The Wii fell off fast but by the end of 2011 it was already at 93 million consoles.  It was already pretty much at saturation anyways.