Blah blah This gen will be the last blah blah Pachter

[thismeintiel]

SWORDF1SH said:

thismeintiel said:

I'll give you the shorter, though, it'll only be by a year or so.  But, front loaded?  How do you come to that conclusion when the PS4 is up YOY without a pricecut after almost 2 years?  This gen will not be more frontloaded than any other.  And sales are going to explode again once the price drops to $299, and then again (though probably to a smaller extent) at $199.

Either you agree with me or we both have different meanings for front loaded. 

PS4 sales are amazing and even the poor selling X1 is outselling the 360. Not saying sales will fall off a cliff in a few years but I feel it will have strong sales at the start but will decline faster in latter years. 

No PS console has performed like the Wii, and the PS4 isn't going to start to, either.  Why?  Well, Sony still has plenty of play on price to cause major boosts to sales, the biggest boosts coming at $299 and $199.  The PS4 has enough power to last the gen, so people are not going to start getting bored of games that look like they belong in last gen.  And most importantly, the PS4 is actually going to have great 3rd party support for the rest of the gen.  There is no way that the PS4 is going to start dropping incredibly after 2016.  There will be a slow decline until we start getting rumblings about the PS5, which should be in late 2018/early 2019.