"The Console Market is Shrinking" is a BS Statement

[Shaunaka]

RolStoppable said:

Shaunaka said:

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?

Definitely below generation 6. Maybe 170-180m in total, and that seems kinda generous. End of life sales of around 75-80m for the PS3 and 360 each and 10-15m for Nintendo's blunder. Without Wii, there would have been no motivation for Sony and Microsoft to create Move and Kinect, thus less attempts at diversity in their gaming libraries, thus lower lifetime sales for hardware.

Now I know you're just joking around. I lurked here long enough to know you're a smart enough cookie to not say these kind of things accidentally. I'm not going to justify that except by sayin that the front page of VGC told me so. And that last sentance is very funny!

And the other reply to me is even more precious. Since when are we held to such incredibly high standards?