Sales Estimations for 8th Generation Consoles and Analysis of the Market

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Justagamer said:
Wiiu: 12-20 million
X1: 50-80 million
Ps4: 70-100 million

- You're being too generous to the Xbox. Now imagine, their performance is dreadful in Europe, think 3 to 1 at best! Then they don't even exist in Japan. Also They're even losing in North America. If you think they will relapse, think again! There is no chance a more expensive console will win in NA, never gonna happen. Given all that you still expect XB1 to sell roughly 3/4 of PS4? TOO OPTIMISTIC. XB1 is very lucky if it can sell only half as many!

- You are too mean to Wii. They have never sold this little. Even their worst console, Gamecube sold 22 million in less than 5 years. We're talking about a 7 year long generation here, and their biggest hits haven't even come around. Also the market is a lot larger now.

- Finally, you're too pessimistic about PS4. Given that as an expensive, 1 year late console, which was set back by bad media press and developing nightmares was able to sell 80+ million in 7 years, don't you think a dream console in every meaning of the word, will sell a lot more than that. I promise you, it will sell at the very least 20% more than its predecessor, around 100+ million even if the market would end up shrinking. Most people are dubious about its popularity over the Wii legacy, but Wii was a storn trooper, it became massivle popular for 3-4 years to dramatically fall off the cliff all of a sudden. PS4 may never be that runaway success, but at the end of the day, it will have sold much more than that due to long term success.