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Angelv577 on 07 June 2015
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Ryng_Tolu said:
Angelv577 said:

But that's the point, there was a declining to 80m from ps1 to ps3 thus thinking that ps4 might hit less than 80m was reasonable because there was an expected decline due to the new popularity of xbox but now that ps4 has been on the market for more than one year and a half showing that it's on pace to outsell ps3 and that it has managed to regain that marketshare lost from last gen , we can't no longer think that ps consoles are in declining and thus the minimum so far will be 80m.  Can the next home console sell less than 80m, of course it can but right now, there is no history indication that that will be the case.  If you want to believe that it will sell less than 80m, I will see it more as a wishful thinking than a analytical prediction.

For the last sentence, all I see is this

PS1: 100+m

ps2: 150m

ps3: 80m+

ps4: expected 80+ to 100m

All I see is when sony screwed up big time, they managed to sell over 80m but less than 100m.  As long as they do thinks right, they are much closer to 100m.

I go to sleep, so, this is probabily the lasy response today.

Any way.

Make some consideration...

PS3: bad launch, 600$/€, problem with online, problem with the graphics, strong competition from Ninty and MS, many other problems

PS4: super strong launch, hype, 400$/€, better hardware (and this time graphics), badly competition from Ninty and MS...

And still, in lifetime sales, is going to sell equal or barely more than PS3...

 

now, if the PS4 have the PS3 problem, or even half of that, do you think the PS4 was going to sell 80 to 100m lifetime?

Let leave it at that because we don't know where exactly ps4 will end, all I know is that ps4 is way ahead and it also the console leader.  Don't forget that more or less at the same time frame ps3 was at 13m(june 7 2008) whereas ps4 is 22.7m(may 16, 2015), a difference of almost 10m.   When the gen is really done and the console stop selling, then that assessment will make more sense assuming you are right.