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DerNebel on 25 July 2014
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icykai said:
DerNebel said:

It's the first year, geez. Who believes that PS4 is still going to sell at this rate in 2-3 years??? Also there is always still the holiday season, I mean just to give an example, in 2009 the PS3 sold over 5.8 million of it's overall 13 million of the year in November and December. Now the PS4 is doing a lot better than the PS3 was at this point in its life, so you can imagine how it's holiday season in 2016 is going to look like...

 

CGI-Quality said:

If it were to only do 100K per week (for however long it sells to), then that would make sense. Since we know that won't be the case, such thinking doesn't work. You can't say: "at the rate of "x" week" when the machine does an average of 100K a week in its lowest weeks (and we've yet to see it in a non-launch constrained holiday).

Also, the PS4 isn't a 7th generation machine.

First of all, sorry i didn't notice i wrote 7th gen meant 8th gen. >,< Sorry about that.

Second, I didn't not say it will keep selling at 100k weekly. I said "If" it keeps selling at this rate it won't get to that number and i know it won't. 

Last, the Ps4 with the current and upcoming games won't be able to get 400k per week as a baseline. Maybe a month or 2, but never a baseline.

Unlike the last gen which had times where it sold for 1 million weekly and was almost always at 500k+ until several months before the launch of the 8th gen which led to the drop of the sales in the 7th gen.

What is this completely arbitrary rule that the console would need to sell 400k per week to reach 100mil? Who says that the PS4 can't have a life until 2019 or 2020? Also you mentioned somewhere that no console is going to be able to reach a 250k/week baseline (average), which I find weird, 250k per week means 13mil in a year, I can guarantee you that starting next year the PS4 is going to easily beat that for the forseeable future, heck there is even a (slim) possibility that it could do it this year, though that's not as likely as the PS4 doing it starting next year.

The PS4 should manage an average of over 300k per week easily for a couple years.