| Shadow1980 said: More charts. Forgot to post these the other day.
Well, the PS4 is still no PS2 in the U.S., but then again the PS2 not only utterly dominated the console market back in the first half of the 00s (with the exception of the 2004 Holiday season due to a shortage of PS2 Slims), but it also was selling at $200 back in 2002 after getting a price cut in May of that year ($200 in 2002 dollars is the equivalent of about $265 in current dollars). The PS4 just got its first price cut a couple of months ago, so we'll see what kind of effects that has going into 2016. It will almost certianly never catch back up with the PS2, but it's currently well ahead of where the PS1 and PS3 were at this point in their lives in terms of lifetime sales, and will likely outsell both those systems by a comfortable margin to end up the new #4 best-selling console ever in the U.S. Meanwhile, the XBO is still holding up well compared to previous Xbox platforms. It will likely sell at least a little better this year than what the 360 sold in 2007 (that is unless it pulls only a million units or less this month). It is worth pointing out though that the 360 was dealing with relatively stagnant sales all the way until 2010 when the 360S was released, after which it experienced a period of growth (which lasted until early 2012) that took it to new heights. I somehow doubt the XBO will see a sudden spike in 2018 that drives it to 8 million units sold. So, though the XBO is tracking a little bit ahead of the the 360 in the U.S., that likely won't persist for more than another year or two. The 360 is already the #2 all-time best-selling console ever in the U.S., and I somehow doubt the XBO will match it. It will likely end up somewhere between the PS1 and PS3 in terms of lifetime sales, which would make it the #6 all-time best-selling console in the U.S. Overall, I suspect that by the end of their product lives combined PS4 & XBO sales will exceed those of combined PS2 & Xbox sales and be roughly on par with combined 360 & PS3 sales. |
| Shadow1980 said: More charts. Forgot to post these the other day.
Well, the PS4 is still no PS2 in the U.S., but then again the PS2 not only utterly dominated the console market back in the first half of the 00s (with the exception of the 2004 Holiday season due to a shortage of PS2 Slims), but it also was selling at $200 back in 2002 after getting a price cut in May of that year ($200 in 2002 dollars is the equivalent of about $265 in current dollars). The PS4 just got its first price cut a couple of months ago, so we'll see what kind of effects that has going into 2016. It will almost certianly never catch back up with the PS2, but it's currently well ahead of where the PS1 and PS3 were at this point in their lives in terms of lifetime sales, and will likely outsell both those systems by a comfortable margin to end up the new #4 best-selling console ever in the U.S. Meanwhile, the XBO is still holding up well compared to previous Xbox platforms. It will likely sell at least a little better this year than what the 360 sold in 2007 (that is unless it pulls only a million units or less this month). It is worth pointing out though that the 360 was dealing with relatively stagnant sales all the way until 2010 when the 360S was released, after which it experienced a period of growth (which lasted until early 2012) that took it to new heights. I somehow doubt the XBO will see a sudden spike in 2018 that drives it to 8 million units sold. So, though the XBO is tracking a little bit ahead of the the 360 in the U.S., that likely won't persist for more than another year or two. The 360 is already the #2 all-time best-selling console ever in the U.S., and I somehow doubt the XBO will match it. It will likely end up somewhere between the PS1 and PS3 in terms of lifetime sales, which would make it the #6 all-time best-selling console in the U.S. Overall, I suspect that by the end of their product lives combined PS4 & XBO sales will exceed those of combined PS2 & Xbox sales and be roughly on par with combined 360 & PS3 sales. |
That means they'd have to sell over 100 million each, since the PS2 sold nearly 200 million units...
If anything I expect them to go slightly over the 360+PS3 figures. The PS4 by a sizable margin and the Xbox One slightly above it...
