Do You Still Think Wii U Can Do 25 million??

[DerNebel]

icykai said:

DerNebel said:

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.

I don't get how the Ps4 is going to be able to do what the Wii did with a worse weekly rate. The Wii BARELY got to 100 mil with double the rate that the Ps4 is doing and from what i think is going to do. Please explain to me how the Ps4 is easily going to break the 100 mil barrier when it has a worse start than the Wii or even the PS1.

 

And i'm sorry i just don't get how we got this far from the topic (Oo).

2 words: longer life

It's that freaking simple. The Wii even outsold the PS2 in its first 4 years, problem was that the Wii had reached over 80% of its lifetime sales by that point, the PS2 hadn't even reached 50%. So the PS4 does not need to outsell the Wii now to have a shot at outselling it lifetime, what it needs to do is have a longer life and that is something PS consoles have historically done very well.

And btw. the PS4 is doing much better than the PS1 was at the same point in its life, the PS1 started very slow in the US and Europe.