It's time to accept it, PS4 has won the US this gen

[greenmedic88]

RavenXtra said:

greenmedic88 said:

RavenXtra said:
Didn't the Sega Genesis start off with a pretty wide lead over the SNES in NA, only to be overtaken in the end?

I wouldn't say its impossible for Xbox One to make a similar move. The consoles aren't even a year old yet.

The Sega Genesis was available first. For inexplicable reasons, Nintendo took their sweet time with the debut of the SNES.

Of course, a better comparison would have been the XB360, which started out with a substantial lead from an extra year on the market and outsold the PS3 earlier on in the product cycle, only to be eventually outsold by the PS3. 

Another good example is that the Wii was always king of NA until the very end of the gen, where Xbox 360 finally overtook it. Years beforehand, people would have laughed at anyone who claimed that would happen.

I remember there were a lot of wacky claims and predictions regarding the Wii which I won't bother digging up here.

Needless to say, history shows the Wii plateaued mid product cycle, followed by a rapid decline due to loss of consumer interest by the extended market demographic largely responsible for the Wii's early success. 

The XB360 enjoyed a resurgence in 2010 with the release of Kinect, catering to the same extended market demographic that bought the Wii.