Soundwave said:
PS4 is matching the sales pace of the PS2 now almost four years in, which is the best selling game hardware of all time. Meanwhile XBox One is selling more than the XB or GameCube from that PS2 era and now you have Switch coming out with a record breaking launch. And these hardware systems are not getting the benefit of large price cuts, as you pointed out, making their sales even more impressive. What more do you want? The market for core-driven game consoles is not declining at all. And you have plenty of casuals having their fun on smartphones, which is basically another multi-billion dollar industry on top of that. We very well could be looking at a generation where it's 120-130 million PS4s (only because Sony will likely pull the PS4 before the PS2), 50-65 million XBox One/Scorpios, and who knows with Switch ... 75-90+ million? If that's not an incredibly healthy industry I don't know what is. The industry is not shrinking guys, anad women and grandmas are not the only way for it to go anywhere. It's patently false alarmism by this point. |
im not saying its declining, all i said was that its possible to have higher profits without necessarily growing your audience.
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