PS4 and Wii cross streams: Wii now ahead of PS4 at the same point in time

[cpg716]

small44 said:

cpg716 said:

torok said:

cpg716 said:
Generation 8 Totals:
PS4: 85-95m
X1: 65-75m
WiiU: 40-50

Why do people believe that a console like PS4, tracking ahead of all competition and even its predecessors, with 60% sales share will end selling worse than all other PS consoles? I don't get the logic in "outselling its predecessors means selling less than them LT".

Despite that, it still includes Wii U beasting to 50M and X1 regaining lost ground.

Because of my FIRST sentence.. This will not be a 8+ year generation.  I believe it will only be 5 years..  so that takes away 3-4 years of sales...  I still have the PS4 outselling the PS3 in 5 years span..    The X1 was ahead of the X360 in its first 6 months.. being way more expensive and in way less countries..  so I still see it doing decent in the long term.. with the price drop especially.  

But it all comes down to a shorter lifespan for this generation.

I really don't know why you think this generation will be shorter then last generation

4k is the biggest reason.. along with several others related to GPU/CPU.  4K sets will be the norm in 3-4 years..  PS4 and Xbox One while capable of 4k video.. will likely NOT do 4k (As they can't even manage 1080p all the time).   

The call for 4k consoles will come quick. The PS3/X360 came right at the beginning of HD 720/1080p and took advantage quickly. If both of those consoles would have shipped without being able to hit 720p, they would have died quickly.  I think since neither console is capable of 4k Video Games..  we will see PS5/Next Xbox earlier..  I DO think that these will be more transition consoles also. Similar machines with backwards compatbility just with upgraded CPU/GPU/Memory (since PC arch now).    4K standard.