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Aielyn on 12 August 2014
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Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
Aielyn said:
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

Isn't it just because we are in a drought right now? Aren't the 3 just normalizing to their baselines.

Well, the one that is doing better now than then is the Wii U, which has been in the biggest drought - since MK8, nothing notable enough to even get onto a chart has released. And it's holding at 60k. So the point is that the Wii U baseline has jumped up. Meanwhile, PS4 sales had been quite high nearer to launch, but are dropping down - what looked like a very high baseline now appears to be an inflated number, with the true baseline being closer to 100k.

Obviously, the PS4's sales right now are boosted by TLOU:RE but its baseline is 100K plus, no console except maybe the XB1 are even close to the PS4's launch sales. It had to decrease it wouldn't make snese otherwise.

I think you might have misread my post. My point about the baseline wasn't about the sales right at launch, but "nearer" to launch - as in, like March/April. In March/April, people were making observations, suggesting where the generation would end up by looking at the sales numbers around that time. And this thread is pointing out, in essence, that expectations were out of whack as a result. Add the fact that the Wii U has a new, higher baseline than it did at the time, and that Xbox One seems to be stabilising at about 52k or so (whereas it had dropped to around 40k through May), and you can see why this thread was created. It was never about attacking the PS4. It was always about renormalising expectations. Many people still seem to expect something like 60% PS4, 30% Xbox One, and 10% Wii U with this generation, and the numbers simply do not support that view any more.