2012 Sales Predictions

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Baalzamon on 02 January 2012

Xbox 360: 14 million
PS3: 14 million
Wii: 7.5 million

I'm thinking 360 and PS3 are going to be extremely close next year, with a similar situation to what we saw this year (PS3 goes significantly ahead for the first 9 months, with the 360 significantly catching up during the holiday season).

It really depends when the WiiU releases, but I think the Wii is going to have very poor sales compared to the HD consoles. With another massive holiday season this year, as well as decent sales throughout next year, I have a hard time seeing the Wii doing much of anything next holiday season when so many people already have a Wii, not to mention the WiiU being released for the holiday season sales (as well as potentially more price cuts making the HD consoles even MORE affordable, hence being even better competition to the Wii)

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Jay520 on 02 January 2012

Jay520 said:
Hardware

- PS3: 15.4m
- Vita: 6.4m
- PS2: 1.6m
- PSP: 1.2m

- 3DS: 19.8m
- Wii: 8.5m
- DS: 6.1m
- WiiU: 4.9m

- 360: 15.1m

Software: (by the end of the year)

- EDIT: Starhawk will over 2.5m
- EDIT: Twisted Metal will also sell over 2.5m
- GTA V will outsell CoD9 on PS360
- The Last Guardian won't be released worldwide
- Mass Effect 3 will sell 5.0m on PS360
- Uncharted 3 will sell 2.0m

I'd like to make an addition. Looking at pre-orders, I believe Twisted Metal will sell over 2.5m. It's tracking well above Killzone 3 (Killzone 3 will release around the same time as Twisted Metal), which sold 2.2m in a year.

I simply changed my Starhawk prediction from selling 2.5m to selling over 2.5m. It looks just as good as Twisted Metal, so I think it will do great also.

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Jay520 on 02 January 2012

pezus said:
I want to add some predictions:

Starhawk - 700k in 2012
Twisted Metal - 900k in 2012

Check the pre-orders for Twisted Metal. It's already double Killzone 3. I'm not saying it's going to double KZ3's sales, but it should easily outdo 900k

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Seece on 02 January 2012

Will post updated charts tomorrow.

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Yonyx on 03 January 2012

Big recession this year:

Wii - 8.2m
360 - 10.9m
PS3 - 12.1m
3DS - 21.0m
Vita - 5.5m
WiiU - 3.0m
DS - 4.2m
PSP - 3.6m

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Aj_habfan on 04 January 2012

Wii - 9.5 million - Bigger holidays without WiiU
PS3 - 13 million - no price cut
360 - 15 million - price cut incoming + increasing Kinect popularity

DS - 4.5 million
3DS - 20 million
Vita - 7 million
PSP - 4 million

Wii U - 850k - Based on 4 weeks in Japan, no NA/Europe release till early 2013

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Noobie on 04 January 2012

Wii - 6.5 million
Wii U - 3.2 million
PS3 - 13.5 million
360 - 11 million
PS2 - 2.5 million
DS - 4 million
3DS - 17 million
Vita - 11 million
PSP - 3 million

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trent44 on 04 January 2012

I have no idea, so just for fun :P

DS - 3 million
Wii - 7 million
3DS - 18 million
Wii U - 2 million

PS2 - 2 million
PSP - 4 million
PS3 - 13 million
Vita - 10 million

360 - 12 million