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atomicblue on 07 September 2014
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CGI-Quality said:

 

 

atomicblue said:
CGI-Quality said:

Of course new consoles will dent sales, but that isn't the point, either (since that's always been the case). For the PS4 to not reach 100 million, it would have to have the sharpest drop off of a PlayStaton, yet (keep in mind it's not only the fastest selling PlayStation, it's also the fastest selling console of all time). I don't see that happening.


This is incorrect. In the time it took PS4 to reach 10 million, Wii hit about 13 million back in 2006-07 (and it did drop off quite sharply somewhere around 2011-12).

Can you show me a run down of this? I'm pretty sure the bases have been covered already.

Edit: If we go by VGC numbers:

July 28, 2007 -

Wii 282,661 (-1%) 10,169,429

 

July 26, 2014 -

PS4 134,755 (-4%) 9,409,574

Even if I'm wrong, the Wii did not sell 13 million in its first 8 months on the market. 


We've both got some numbers wrong, I just double-checked things. PlayStation 4 hit 10 million in a few days short of 9 months, not 8 (it launched November 15, 2013, and the 10m mark was announced around August 12 this year).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_sales

Wii was at a bit over 13m at the end of September 2007, a little over 10 months after it came out, and three months earlier it was at 9.27m units. It would have been at somewhere between 11-12m units (not 13m, like I originally thought) in the same time it took Sony to reach 10m. Either way, PS4 is definitely not the fastest-selling console of all time.