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Kerotan on 24 October 2014
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Mr Puggsly said:

It really depends on the context. And even the brute numbers of 40-50M aren't that good for the current market size.


The market is arguably smaller today given competition. It appears less hardware is going to be sold this gen.

If the Vita managed to sell 40 - 50 million I think people would consider that doing well. The 3DS is a top selling platform yet moving less units than its predecessor.

It seems like PS4 is the only platform that will move the same or more units this gen compared to last gen.


People should stop comparing this gen to last gen. PS2 wasn't bought by grannies for the most part or mums and dads or whatever. The PS2/Xbox/GC were mainly bought by core gamers. The Wii added about 60M sales that can be contributed to the motion control fad. I say fad and not evolution in gaming because MS utterly bombed with kinect this gen. It was fun for like 2 years and then everyone moved on. 

You'd be better off comparing software sales and minus sales from "games" like the fitness and brain training ones. If you include them you might as well include all the PC/FB/iphone shovelware games and say the market has increased.