| RolStoppable said: But that's what I am talking about. If Nintendo hadn't changed their ways, they would have made a console like the Wii U in the seventh generation and continued their decline in home console sales. Instead they realized that there isn't only a problem that exists for them, but the whole market. A problem that was masked by population growth in existing markets, adding new countries to the mix and rising spending capabilities of existing gamers (people growing up and getting jobs, increasing multiconsole ownership as well as overall software sales). So despite hardware numbers going up each generation, the interest in console gaming didn't necessarily increase, i.e. fewer people spending more money instead of more people spending money. Applied to the PS3 and 360 selling about 95% of the PS2 and Xbox, this means that the contraction is actually bigger than it looks, because the seventh gen systems were sold in more countries for a longer time than their predecessors. Nevermind that the industry has basically an obligation to continually grow, because so do development and marketing costs. |
Serious question then:
If we assume everything you say is correct (which isn't too much of a leap at all), then what would you (roughly) estimate gen7 total sales to have been? I know it's a tough one, but would you put it below gen6? Equal?
