Fusioncode said:
superhippy420 said:
This console generation right now is just too expensive.
3DS is holding pretty strong at 141k but if you dropped the price of all 3 models by $30, sales would be around 200k, maybe even more. The DS only sold 20 million in its first 2 years and that was with games like NSMB, Nintendogs, and Mario Kart. Once they came out with the much nicer DS Lite for $149 and dropped the fat model to $119 is when the console really started to take off. I really think that lowering the price by $30 - $40 could send the 3DS to over 100 million numbers. The fact that it has sold 43 million in the tablet era and with the price point it has is pretty amazing as it is.
Wii U is out of nearly everyones price range that isn't a big Nintendo fan. It's a nice console with some really good titles and some great titles on the way. Alot of people already know that. $299 is just too much though. Wii launching at $250 is one of the biggest reasons why it did so great. It wasn't crazy expensive to start, and once it dropped to $199 it started doing insane numbers. Just yesterday a store on ebay posted 1100 Mario Wii U Bundles for $270 and they sold out within 2 hours. At $250 with Mario Kart, I think the console could really start to find its groove.
Xbox One is the same deal. $499 is the price that only the most hardcore Xbox fans are willing to pay. Otherwise who really has $500 laying around, to drop on a game console, especially when nearly all of the games are already on the consoles we all already own.
PS4 is in good shape right now. The key will be 1. How big of a hit it is in Japan, and 2. Can they keep the momentum up in Europe and the U.S. over the course of the next 6 - 8 months. I just don't see the software coming for sustained momentum. Infamous 2 came out in 2011 on the PS3 and only sold 1.65 million. Even if the new one does really well, it's max is still only about 2.5 million lifetime. Looking at other racing game sales, Driveclub is probably going to be a flop. You stack that with the fact that Titanfall and Mario Kart are coming soon, and it will be interesting to see what happens.
Vita needs games that appeal to the west. It's doing solid numbers in Japan, but there are alot of japanese titles so it makes sense. Not sure what Sony could do other then beg Rockstar to make GTA but it needs to do something. It's also not exactly cheap either, but even with a much lower price, I am not sure it would do much without a better library to go along with it. |
It's the first big exclusive on the PS4 after launch. It's going to do at least 3m lifetime. Preorder wise it's tracking far ahead of Infamous 2 at the same point and time.
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I really doubt it. Infamous 1 sold 2.73 million and was a pack in game for a while. Infamous 2 sold 1.65 million. I really doubt Infamous Second Son is going to all of a sudden hit 3 million. Pre-orders don't mean much. Gran Turismo 6 has 230k U.S. pre-orders yet somehow only sold 320k in all of North America. I just don't see it being a console mover. I think the established base will buy a bunch of copies, but people arn't going to be camping out to get a PS4 just for Infamous.
