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Panama on 18 June 2012

I think the sales decline can be attributed to the weak 2012 lineup. A lot of big titles pushed back to 2013 with the only big hitters from memory being ME3 and MP3.



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mike_intellivision on 18 June 2012

I also wonder how many of the sales of PS3s and Xbox 360s are replacement units. Between upgrades and special units and moving the account to a new machine when the old one dies, those consoles have had another stream of sales.

The Wii, because of its locked memory (meaning some game saves and all DLC cannot be moved to another console), is more likely to be repaired than replaced if the user wants to keep playing the system.

I also wonder if we are not paying the price for stretching the generation out too long.

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daveJ on 18 June 2012

Most of this is pretty obvious, though still a shock to see how close the xbox360 is to the wii in the US for hardware, it might even pass it within 12 months.
Nintendo should of kept the DS for another year

US first 5 months 2012
xbox360 1.46 million
ps3 1.18 million
wii 0.72 million



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 Bet with tbone51: Pokeon X & pokemon Y will not sell more than 8 million in 2013

 jarrod said:The Xbox360 or ps3 will not sell more than 75million units

July 2009 daveJ said: True the wii has a large lead now but by 2017 the most likely result will be 1. ps3 2. xbox360 3. wii <-- wii's successor launched in 2011 effectively killing sales of the wii

 2009 daveJ said: The wii will not break the 50% marketshare barrier it will go below the 40% marketshare barrier though in the future. VGChartz members: Impossible, youre an idiot that knows nothing about sales

Slimebeast on 18 June 2012

A hardware decline so late in a generation is expected but I am a lil disappointed with the huge drop in software as well.

Lots and lots of good games are coming out for the PS360 constantly. It's sad if they underperform saleswise so that future projects are canned. (Dragon's Dogma, please sell)



Kasz216 on 18 June 2012
Panama said:
I think the sales decline can be attributed to the weak 2012 lineup. A lot of big titles pushed back to 2013 with the only big hitters from memory being ME3 and MP3.


That's what NPD attributed it too... I mean, not to metnion it's getting towards the end of the generation.  I'd guess software tends to peak in the middle.

 

Of course then again maybe there are a bunch of people like me who have practically abadoned retail despite formerly buying multiple games a month and now go PC and DIgitial Distrib.

 

Somehow doubt it though.