It's time to accept that the PS4 won't beat the PS2 numbers

[Teeqoz]

PenguinZ said:

Teeqoz said:

PenguinZ said:
I have my doubts that it will surpass 100m, simply because I feel this is going to be a shorter console cycle, especially compared to the 7th generation.

Wah? It's at 18.5 million now, emerging markets are way better now than before (Sony showed us that PS4 has sold twice as much in Asia excluding Japan than the PS2 had in the same point in its life), Japanese support is just starting to pick up, It hasn't even reached its peak yet, so we should expect years higher than this in the future (it did 14 million this calendar year.)

 

How do you explain the 100 million figure?

Sales could be more frontloaded this generation, given the length of last generation. A 100m sold units for any product is harder to achieve than most people give it credit for. In all honestly I feel it could sale as high as 110m, but I feel generally more confortable around 95m

If Sony ships 95 million I can promise you that they'll pressure retailers into taking the remaining 5 million it takes to get to a hundred. They'll do it just for a marketing ploy. Heck, they'll probably push so that they outsell the Wii and the PSOne so that they could say "The PS4 is the second bestselling video game console of all time, the bestselling one in the last 15 years"