Why would you stop counting last generation sales just because new consoles are out? I mean GC and PS2 have made significant inroads into Xbox marketshare since 2005, and you will probably see that again at the end of this generation when the company who is in second place but has momentum wants to build on it...PS2 is going to end up with 120-125 million consoles sold, GC will probably stop right around 22 million (only selling maybe 10-15k a week worldwide), while Xbox sells under 1500 worldwide per week I imagine. When you throw the numbers together you get a 175 million unit generation, 184 million unit generation if you include Dreamcast. That would mean 170 million is either a year or more too short or a huge decline in sales for the industry.
You have to go beyond 2011 for this generation I think. PS3 if it sells at least what it is selling now when big games come out, will only gain momentum when the price drops. If Gamecube or Xbox had cost what PS3 does, Nintendo and Microsoft would have been completely ruined in the industry, so the fact that PS3 won't be mass market price (read: under $200) for 3 years (at least), means that PS3 will have to be supported longer to curtail whatever Sony loses.
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