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Which sales are more impressive?

Wii 68 39.53%
 
PS4 104 60.47%
 
Total:172
DonFerrari said:
Let's party that Wii were the fastest selling console of all time for 3 years or cry that it were the worst dominating leader, biggest drop, lowest tie ratio?

This thread looks much more like sore loser.

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50% of the marketshare is still an impressive feat..



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And for anyone that continues to claim the Wii was an abnormality: The market leader right now (PS4) is equaling the weekly sales of the 3rd place console at the time in 7th Gen (PS3). How anyone can even begin to think it will reach 100mn+ in lifetime sales is beyond me...



thismeintiel said:
Ryng_Tolu said:
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kowenicki said:

If we assume pessimistic lifetime sales of 40m for Xbox one and 15m for WiiU then the PS4 would need 130m to have 70%.

Technically, 128M.  And 116M for 68%.  Hardly FAR better.

And 40M isn't exactly pessimistic for XBO.  I'd say ~30M is.  If someone guessed ~40M at this point, I'd say they would be being realistic.  50M+ is optimistic.

I see around 60 / 65 % MS for PS4...

WU ~ 19,000,000

XBO ~ 35,000,000

PS4 ~ 92,000,000

Earlier this gen, I thought the Wii U was going to sell ~20M, however, with the announcement of their next console (rumored to be both a home console and a handheld) coming next year and nothing really on the horizon after Zelda (if that hasn't already moved onto to being cross-gen or NX exclusive), I think sales are going to drop even lower than they are, now.  I'm thinking more along the lines of ~16M, with a max  of ~18M.

Your XBO seems pretty reasonable.  Again, originally I thought it was going to end higher, much higher.  ~60M+.  But, after seeing its lows around the world, even the US, I have changed my opinion.  The only real reason the XBO has done relatively well the past few months, especially the holidays, is because of the firesales and endless deals MS has been having for it.  MS won't subsidize its sales forever.  This year will most likely be its peak year, with Halo 5 and probably the last big moneyhatting move (TR as a timed exclusive), as well as a price cut to $299 to answer the PS4 cut this year.  There's even rumors they are starting to bow out of big 3rd party advertising deals, with Sony picking up COD this year.  I'm guessing ~40M, ~42M max.

Here's where your estimates go wrong.  No market leader has sold less than 100M since Gen 5.  This gen will be no different.  Even if the PS4 peaks next year, like you believe it will, it will have a very gradual drop the following years.  2016 should be a great year and 2017 should, at the very least, come close to matching 2016 sales, since we should see the launch of the Slim (if it hasn't launched already) and a cut to $199, as well as many other 1st party exclusives from devs we still haven't heard from.  2018 should be another good year, since it will be a full year at $199, plus some great late gen games, like Sony always does.  It shouldn't be til 2019, with a possible launch of the PS5, til we see some real drastic drops.  It'll also see stronger sales than the PS3 after its successor is launched, as it's more popular and I wouldn't be surprised to see its price able to drop to $149.  I'm guessing ~125M, max ~140M.

So, with my estimates, without maxes, that gives us:

PS4 - 125M (69%)
XBO - 40M (22%)
Wii U - 16M (9%)

The NX is probabily a handheld, not a console. So, i don't think will coming next year. i still think will released in 2017 or 2018...

So, i believe WU will not sell 20,000,000, but will very close.

For the XBO we agree.

For the PS4, well, all is possible, the PS4 can even sell at the PS2 level with 150,000,000... just, i don't think will happen... you agreed when you say that the price is still huge, but some guys have already bought a PS4 thanks a very good promotion, not only what i already said, but even some deal during last holidays, for example the promotion of the Black Friday with PS4+TLOU+GTA V, or the Destiny bundle at 349$ in the US during December...

So, i can see PS4 to hit 100,000,000 (even i don't think will happen), but above 120,000,000 seem too hard. :/



The Playstation 4's sales are only this good now because it didn't cost twice as much as other consoles at launch like its predecessor. This generation is weaker in terms of consoles and software so it makes sense that it hasn't outsold the Wii by now.



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This is a response thread to that Pezus thread.

If you want to make a PS4 vs Wii sales thread, then that's fine. But as this is a response to a thread, it should just be a post to that thread.

Again, make a thread that makes new discussions, not continue discussion from another thread. The lack of quality posts doesn't help this thread either.

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