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

[Shaunaka]

Captain_Tom said:

Shaunaka said:
Wow.

A minimum of 130M PS4's sold. Quite courageous - even if I think you're right.

The funny thing is that while projected sales data points to the PS4 being the best selling Sony console of all time (Or Second), I just get the feeling that it is really gonna sell 100 million.  It's probably because I think:

 

1) Less people will buy multiple systems this gen

2) The market is more competitive and as such the overall size of the console market as shrunk.

3) This generation will be at least 1-2 years shorter than the last one.

Points 1&3 are your opinions. Point 3 isn't relevent because the PS2 was the highest selling PS console and that generation wasn't the last one.

As for point 2 (factually):

PS2+Xbox+Gamecube+Dreamcast =

152m+24m+22m+10m = 208m

Wii+PS3+360=

100m+80m+80m = 260m

So I don't know where that comes from, because the numbers don't agree with you at all. It's a very popular opinion, but I don't know how people just throw it out there at all since it's not backed up by any facts. You might argue that the Wii shouldn't be included, but to throw it out completely is nonsensical. Moreover, TONS of PS2s were sold after the 7th gen started, and the PS3 and 360 sales are still going strong.

In other words, I don't agree with your reasoning.