Video:Excuses Why PS4 Is Selling Is Irrelevant

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sundin13 said:

@.@ I've said it was selling well about 30 times already...but just "well" (I clarified this in all my other posts, and notice I said "super well" in my original post). Nothing more nothing less. We know what great sales look like because of the Wii, and we've seen multiple consoles regularly baseline over 100k through the summer for the last 5 years. 100k is good for a first summer, but it isn't anything to brag about.

Once again, I need to point out that excuses like "the Wii was a special case" is exactly the kind of stuff that the OP of this thread is saying is irrelevant....

The Wii is a special case because is tracked way ahead of anything in the history and ended short of the PS1 while its first years promissed that it would surpass the PS2. It is different. Despite that, we can't compare PS4 sales with mid gen sales of PS360 because these consoles, just like PS2 or others before, have their peak years in the middle of the gen because they have better price points and more games to add value. Early gen data can only be compared to early gen data.

The 100k baseline didn't happen that easily for home consoles in the first year, just mid gen, so it isn't a fair comparison. I couldn't get 2013 PS3 data and compare with PS4 as I can't use 2011 PS3 data. The only reasonable comparisons are 2006/07 X360, 2007 PS3 and 2000 PS2 and similar time frames.