"The Console Market is Shrinking" is a BS Statement

[Zod95]

Scoobes said:

Zod95 said:

Scoobes said:

Isn't that pretty much the same as a normal console life-cycle chart? If anything, the home console market is healthier now then it was in 2006 as the decline period hasn't been as significant as it obviously was leading up to 2006.

Not if you add PS2 numbers. It won't look that much healthy.

Sony shipped 14.2 million consoles in 2006 so even accounting for those numbers the total console sales are still ahead for the start of this gen (2013 numbers).

This all looks pretty typical of another console generation and typical product life cycles.

If that's so, yeah, slightly ahead. Now add Game Cube numbers and things must be even.

And now take into account how frontloaded PS4 and XOne were (1 month in 2013 will most probably account for more than 6 months in 2014) in comparison to PS3 and Wii (1 month in 2006 accounted for much less than 6 months in 2007). In my graphic, 2013 got benefited by that. The truth will come out when we get the totals of 2014 and 2015.

Otherwise, going by your logic, we must expect a massive growth of total sales this year (as we saw from 2006 to 2007).