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freebs2 on 13 July 2017
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Turkish said:
freebs2 said:

If consider the console market, you'll consider all manifacturers, right?

During last generation hardware sales were split between two manifacturers (counting out Nintendo for simplicity) , this time you have a clear winner whose taking the biggest slice of the pie. So of course when you'll see things by the winner's side everything looks great but if you'll look at the whole picture it's not very favorable. For this gen to match the previous one (already excluding handhelds and 100+ million consoles sales form Nintendo) you're betting that current Xbox One models are going to sell still about 10 million and PS4 is going to double its total sales in the next 2 to 3 years.

They were only split because 360 took half of PS2s sales, and this gen the split will be like +100-110M vs +5-60M, still the same pie. It's very favorable all things considered. Also it's not only about hardware sold anymore, read my last post, there's only so many households to put consoles in. That's why Sony has such global reach, putting consoles in emerging markets to expand the industry.

And again, if Xbone sold more, it wouldn't take away PS4 sales, the Xbone is still selling well maxing sales in America and UK, it's tracking great against 360. PS4+Xbone are up YoY against PS360 every year thus far on NPD so your narrative that PS4 is taking all the sales of the same pie is not true. The totals this gen are higher than last gen.

If you're gonna doom and gloom at least do some research, honestly what are you expecting sales wise?  The console market is not dying, stop being stuck in 2011 and move on, enjoy games.

It's only natural to expect YoY sales to be higher at this point, both 360 and PS3 had a very shallow sales curve and did their best in later years. That's beacuse customers had to overcome the technological barrier of HD, consoles were more expansive expecially since a lot of customer were migrating form Ps2 and were waiting for the Ps3 to drop price.

Of course this is not the case with the ps4 and xbox one, both highly anticipated upgrades after an abnormally long generation, launched at a more affordable price, didn't require any setup upgrade for customers.

The ps4 will most likely reach is peak more quickly and then burn out faster, the Xbox One is likely already burn out.