"The Console Market is Shrinking" is a BS Statement

[Shaunaka]

Turkish said:

Shaunaka said:

Turkish said:
Gen 8 will sell less than Gen 7 but don't panic, it'll be entirely due to the decline of Nintendo's casual fanbase. They went from 100m Wii's to WiiU, which is currently tracking behind Gamecube.

Overall the traditional gamesmarket between the Xbox and PS will stay the same, although PS4 will have a really large marketshare.

Even though I made this thread I completely agree that the underlined is possible. The actual ethos of this thread is that we should place more emphasis on the "don't panic" part.

Some people have not understood this even though I thought it was implicit. Apparantly I'm implying that 200M PS4s are going to be sold or something. LOL.

I think Gen 8 will have a total of 200 million console sales:

PS4: 100-125m

Xbone: 50-60m

WiiU: 20-30m

180-200m is a great performance and will warrant another console generation. Gen 7 will be forever tainted by the stats caused by the influx and departure of the non-gamers. People will be confused why Gen 8 dropped by ~80m while the answer is very simple.

I'd say PS4 will be 20m more than that, but the rest looks pretty much what I'd have said. And the underlined is of course very true.