Is this generation a repeat of the 6th generation?

[novasonic]

BraLoD said:

novasonic said:

PwerlvlAmy said:

novasonic said:
Similar rankings, but nowhere near the same sales numbers. The planets aligned perfectly for the PS2, and sales like that for a home console will likely never happen again.

PS4: 60-65m
WiiU: 30-35m
X1: 30-35m

yeah PS2 was one of those freak selling consoles,not even Wii reached that level

It makes the Nintendo fan in me cringe, but I don't think the PS2 will ever be bested in terms of home console sales.

As this gen seems much like the 5th gen, I can say that PS5 probably will surpass PS2, as it surpassed the PS1 because the market was inclined to Sony, maybe it happens again and in a major scale, you know, the world always have more and more people buying things, the numbers will rise.

Maybe many generations in the future, But not any time soon. Think about it. They wern't following the normal console generation cycles back then, which led to their console being on the market for longer than the competition. The PS2's only direct competition when it released was the Dreamcast which was already on its death bed. Developers already hated it because of the piracy issues. Its secondary compitition was the sputtering N64. Another console that developers hated because of the high cost of cartridges. Add to that over a year head start over the Gamecube and Xbox, and we were living in a world where the internet and mass gaming news was nowhere near as popular as it is now. Except for the hardest of hard core gamers, no one even knew the Gamecube and, especially, the Xbox were even coming.

Currently, Sony is following normal generation cycles, has two dirrect compitent competitors, and game media is huge right now.

Call me crazy, but PS2-like home console sales wont happen for a long long time if they ever happen again.