| TheSource said: I know people don't like it when I say this, but I really think the X1 / PS4 figures for Nov-Dec 13' were largely fanboy effect driven - there were 10 million people or so willing to buy a X360 or PS3 for $500+ in 2005-2007, and adjusted for inflation that's more like $600+ in today's money. Those 10 million people willing to buy a system with hardly any games for a high price, based on potential were the people rushing out in November and December. People keep saying PS4 isn't doing that great compared to PS3 in 2007...well it's not doing that great compared to PS2 in 2007 either: Jan 07'
It used to be fairly routine to be able to have multiple manfacturers selling around 500,000 consoles a month in the US - that was the case for Nintendo and Sony in 2006-2008, Nintendo in 2009, Nintendo & Microsoft in 2010-2011. |
Hey Source. Been awhile huh. Anyways that is what I was just thinking. I mean I was going to say how good PS4 sales were until I looked back at the comparable month of January 2007 and have a complete turnaround of opinion. I mean I am just baffled right now at why gamers and other customers aren't upgrading like they did so heavily in the last generation. Or at least at a similar pace. It does seem that both PS4 and X1 were able to galvanize a lot of gamers into buying the system at launch, but it seems most people made their decision early rather than later.
Doesn't seem to have the affect that the Wii did where word of mouth kept spreading it to have more and more people buy it which created the massive shortage for the system and some of the best sales to go along with it. So my question is what is keeping gamers from upgrading. I mean possibly price and games, but it isn't like these problems didn't exist for last gen systems as well. It seems like it would be easier too as the PS3, 360, and Wii have all faded off the market while the PS2 was still burning in the comparable time. So any ideas haha?
