freedquaker said:
The average ratio is double but it may be as low as 83% as recorded in histroy due to several reasons. Also it is accurate to look at one single only but rather the entire generation due to the switch from userbase and the change in the market share and then adjust accordingly. Also the PS3's first year performance sounds a nitpicked as it was prohibitively expensive and in short supply due to bluray and complex hardware issues. The consumer behavior is more general and different from that. Why don't you look at the collective behavior of the entire 7th generation? After all, it would be very naive to suggest PS4 will not sell more in the second half of 2014 than the first one. The calculations have already been done with a good deal of confidence. At the end of the day your 16 million estimate is within the given range, but now that the VGChartz data is upped a bit, the figures may use a bit uphold.
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You seem to be disagreeing with me but then you come up with the same 16-17 million range. I'm not comparing 1H and 2H I am comparing 8 months to 4 months.
I do look at the collective behaviour of the entire 7th gen because I show Wii, 360 and PS3 year 1 ratios. If all 3 ratios individually are approximately 1:1 then the ratios combined will also be about 1:1. The first full year on the market looks like it reliably has the lowest 8mo:4mo ratio because of consistent factors: price is still usually the same as launch price, game library is still very cross generational, number of games that are only on new gen consoles is relatively small, and you may have supply limitations too. All these consistent multi generation factors are at play for PS4. Wii U had cut the price in it's first full year and its ratio did not quite reach 1:1.7. Wii U probably also had more Wii U only games on it than PS4 or Xb one will have going in to this holiday, though I haven't analysed that assumption, so I may be wrong.
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