Why I don't think the PS4 will pass 100m

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Nintentacle said:

BHR-3 said:

whoa whoa ps3 still gots life in it lets let time pass and see where it ends up its come a long way from this

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=102249&page=4#1

PS4 passing 100M to me is a no brainier

the reason why PS3 is having a hard time/couldnt get pass 100M is b/c 360 and even the wii took loads of sales from it aswell as having a rough start form launch till about when UC2 release the ps4 wont have these issues its the it console this gen

2. PS4 doesn't have the hardware to go as long as PS3 did, It's already outdated. Plus, it will be maxed out pretty easily. It took them up to 2013 to max out the PS3 (The Last of Us), and when it launched it wasn't outdated.

 

To return to an argument that was made against the PS3 last gen but can equally work in support of a longer gen/PS4 lifetime this time round; the hardware does not decide the lifetime of a console, the market does.

The reason PS3 sold this well for this long isn't because of the amazingly powerful hardware, but because of the software support (even after the PS4's release). In the last few years PS3 has seen quality software releases enticing more people to try it out, but that wasn't because of the hardware, but because Sony has developers willing to optimise their engines for PS3. Even then, they were only incremental improvements on visuals (The Last of Us was only an incremental improvement on Uncharted 2) and the mass market tend not to care about incremental improvements.

Anyone that does care will have at least a midling PC whose visuals would far outstrip anything the PS3 could output.

Go back another generation and you'll see the PS2, which had the worst hardware of that gen but continued to sell because developers continued to support it and consumers kept buying software.