Man, Did Some People Get This Gen Wrong

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

greenmedic88 said:
I suppose since hardware capability debates have become pointless and yesterday's topic, VGC forums may as well switch focus to sales predictions, which is more appropriate anyway.

In all fairness, most of those quoted quips were posted out of emotion rather than in an attempt to maintain some semblance of objectivity. Unfortunately, all the emotion in the world on a forum such as this won't have any effect on the outcome.

As I've said since the 8th gen really started (as the Wii U had 100% of the market to themselves for a year and accomplished nothing with it in terms of maintaining marketshare)... we'll see. Time will tell.

What I won't do is make predictions based upon what I want or hope to see and frankly, I have no real investment emotionally or more importantly, financially, in the success or failure of Sony or Microsoft with regard to their game platforms.

Worst case scenario for me if Sony magically disappears overnight: I buy an Xbox One for $399 if I choose to keep playing on a console by default. It doesn't matter.

But the data we currently have based upon a little more than a quarter's worth of sales trends do not support any other notion that the PS4 will continue to see the same level of dominance with regards to Nintendo and Microsoft this generation.

So yes, it's early, and things can change quite a bit over a 2-3 year period as we've seen with the PS3, but making predictions when there is really no hard data to support those "feelings" really isn't something anyone with objectivity should be taking too seriously.

Stick to joke threads and posts if that's your M.O.