| JGarret said: @montrealsoon When it comes to sales between the HD systems, don´t you think the 360 will remain relevant since it´ll still take a lot of time for the PS3 to catch up and surpass it? And even when the PS3 does surpass the 360, wouldn´t we (probably) be approaching the 8th generation, kinda nullifying the advantage one HD system has over the other? |
I absolutely believe the 360 will remain relevant (as in can sell enough software to warrant its development) for the entirety of this cycle. The killer is, in terms of broad software support is the market leader will get it, not the third place console (especially when the leader is vastly outselling it's two competitors).
I am not totally convinced the PS3 will outsell the 360 at the end of the cycle. I think MS/SONY have "gone for the icing on the cake" while Nintendo "went for the cake". To top that off (oh, bad bad pun!) MS grabbed most of the icing early.
SONY forecasts roughly 9 million more PS3 sales in the next year, NINTENDO forecasts roughly 28 million more Wii sales in the same time frame (if I remember correctly). SONY themselves do not expect a very high marketshare. Anybody know what MS has projected for the next year?
