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walsufnir said:
DanneSandin said:
kowenicki said:
Not quite... but the decline in the next 18 months may be steeper than many are expecting.

You think there's still games to come that will push out good HW numbers?


Perhaps TLoU, even better I think will GTA5 do. But I don't see others (yes, that's with beyond in mind).

I imagine we'll see some bumps in the HW charts, but nothing spectacular. The only real candidate left to be a system seller is GTA5 actually; the question is how much HW it can push since it's the end of the gen and we already have a GTA out for current gen...



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DanneSandin said:

Well, I don't think I can argue with anything in your post... Next gen can't come fast enough! Or in the Wii U's case, the games can't come fast enough!

Yeah, the holidays will be very interesting. With the Wii U finally getting some system sellers and the ancient PS360 getting almost way too many powerhouse games, I think the PS4/Nextbox might be in for a rocky start unless they have something amazing up their sleeves.



badgenome said:
DanneSandin said:

Well, I don't think I can argue with anything in your post... Next gen can't come fast enough! Or in the Wii U's case, the games can't come fast enough!

Yeah, the holidays will be very interesting. With the Wii U finally getting some system sellers and the ancient PS360 getting almost way too many powerhouse games, I think the PS4/Nextbox might be in for a rocky start unless they have something amazing up their sleeves.

Yeah, I have to agree with you; next gen might be off on a rocky start with WiiU struggling and PS360 still around and kicking and still getting some great support. But surely PS720 must do better than Wii U in its first 6 months? Wii U had a great start, which I can't imagine PS720 can replicate (well, anything is possible), but they should drop as fast as Wii U did after the holidays... Right?



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spurgeonryan said:
You do not think that the GTAV game that was confirmed for these systems is coming now?

Well, it's coming in September I think, but I wonder how much it'll push console sales; GoWA and GoWJ and Tomb Raider did nothing for the PS360 numbers...



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No. The consoles are selling way better VGC show.

The new GoW and Gears are not mainline games... the sales are good.



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DanneSandin said:

Yeah, I have to agree with you; next gen might be off on a rocky start with WiiU struggling and PS360 still around and kicking and still getting some great support. But surely PS720 must do better than Wii U in its first 6 months? Wii U had a great start, which I can't imagine PS720 can replicate (well, anything is possible), but they should drop as fast as Wii U did after the holidays... Right?

I think it all depends on software. On the one hand, they'll almost certainly have better third party support than the Wii U's... uh, nothing these past few months. On the other, if it's all stuff that's shared with the PS360 then getting people to upgrade just to play shinier versions of games that are also coming to the systems they already have is going to be a tough proposition.

E3 is the key!



badgenome said:
DanneSandin said:

Yeah, I have to agree with you; next gen might be off on a rocky start with WiiU struggling and PS360 still around and kicking and still getting some great support. But surely PS720 must do better than Wii U in its first 6 months? Wii U had a great start, which I can't imagine PS720 can replicate (well, anything is possible), but they should drop as fast as Wii U did after the holidays... Right?

I think it all depends on software. On the one hand, they'll almost certainly have better third party support than the Wii U's... uh, nothing these past few months. On the other, if it's all stuff that's shared with the PS360 then getting people to upgrade just to play shinier versions of games that are also coming to the systems they already have is going to be a tough proposition.

E3 is the key!

e3 definitely where its at! They better show us some awesome PS720 games that WON'T be on PS360... I think that'll mainly be 1st party games; Sony already showed us some of them - and that might just be enough for people to buy the new versions instead...



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spurgeonryan said:
DanneSandin said:
spurgeonryan said:
You do not think that the GTAV game that was confirmed for these systems is coming now?

Well, it's coming in September I think, but I wonder how much it'll push console sales; GoWA and GoWJ and Tomb Raider did nothing for the PS360 numbers...


Honestly, did anyone really care about any of those games besides Tomb Raider? I think people who have had their consoles sitting, collecting dust or just away from videogames for a while will come back just to play GTAV. If that means buying a new console, then that is what it means. Will be pretty big. Maybe not as big as past titles, but it will bump sales a lot. Too bad Nintendo could not secure it for the Wii U as well. Give them 10 million dollars to port it. I am sure they would think about it then.

I'm expecting bump in sales when GTA5 is released, I'm just not sure how big it'll be...

And I totally agree; Nintendo should pay to get GTA5 if that's what it takes! Not that I'm interested in it, but a lot of people are.



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spurgeonryan said:
Your sig is crazy^

Sales would not be as high on the wii U, but at least it would be unique. with Game pad play that is.

Man... I think I have even more bets lying around :P I should go back and check them out ^^ They're all from my Sony e3 prediction thread :P

Yeah, with the samller install base no way GTA5 on Wii U could ever match the PS360 sales, but it could probably reach 1m or more... Well worth a port!



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spurgeonryan said:
DanneSandin said:
spurgeonryan said:
Your sig is crazy^

Sales would not be as high on the wii U, but at least it would be unique. with Game pad play that is.

Man... I think I have even more bets lying around :P I should go back and check them out ^^ They're all from my Sony e3 prediction thread :P

Yeah, with the samller install base no way GTA5 on Wii U could ever match the PS360 sales, but it could probably reach 1m or more... Well worth a port!

CoD on wii always sold way less, but that did not mean it was not successful. Always seemed to be 1.5-3 million in sales.

It probably sold a lot less because it was poor ports... I actually like using the Wiimotes to shoot, but when the graphics and everything else is much better on other consoles people usually buy those versions... But GTA5 would look and run just as well on Wii U, so it would have the potantial to sell better.



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