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which will sell the most in 2014?

Wii U 356 33.87%
 
Playstation 4 608 57.85%
 
Xbox One 85 8.09%
 
Total:1,049
zorg1000 on 01 August 2013
Incubi said:

"Wii U is selling badly becuase currently its failing at all three of those things, its had the longest drought in gaming history."

Actually, the PS1 had the longest drought in history. Food for thought:p

WiiU is sitting at 3,6 million sold after being 8 months on market. PS1 sat on 3,6 mill sold after being on market for almost 2 years. This is the reason i'm not worried about the WiiU. Couse I lived through the PS1 drought after buying it on launch day dec 94. And we all know how badly the PS1 ended up selling.

No way!!! Did it really have a drought like that?



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HikenNoAce on 01 August 2013
Incubi said:

"Wii U is selling badly becuase currently its failing at all three of those things, its had the longest drought in gaming history."

Actually, the PS1 had the longest drought in history. Food for thought:p

WiiU is sitting at 3,6 million sold after being 8 months on market. PS1 sat on 3,6 mill sold after being on market for almost 2 years. This is the reason i'm not worried about the WiiU. Couse I lived through the PS1 drought after buying it on launch day dec 94. And we all know how badly the PS1 ended up selling.


I think you need to get your facts right. 3.6M in 2 years? lol 

Also, keep in mind that the PS1 was available worldwide until Sep 1995. And 2 years within its life, it had a lot of great games.

http://images.wikia.com/vgsales/images/7/70/Sony_consoles_shipments.jpg



Incubi on 01 August 2013

OK, 4,3 mill after 16 months on sale. The games did'nt start coming until september 95. So, sue me:p

"Also, keep in mind that the PS1 was'nt available worldwide until Sep 1995".

Does'nt matter considering how much of an early adopter I was:p

Oh, btw. How many WiiU units do you think Nintendo will have shipped in 16 months from launch?



Dark_Lord_2008 on 01 August 2013

Bring on the 8th generation of the console sales wars with the arrival of the PS4 and XBox One to provide much needed competition for the Wii U. The Wii U looks like ending up with a 5 million sales lead after its 12 month head start, similar to the XBox 360. I am looking forward to the PS4 smashing the Wii U and XBox One in weekly sales and comfortably winning the 8th generation sales wars. The PS4 exclusive games will make it more appealing and differentiate it from the Wii U and XBox One. 80% of games being multi-platform will look and play similar on PS4 and XBox One. 



DevilRising on 01 August 2013
S.T.A.G.E. said:


Im only going off of past track records. If the reception for the PS4 is correct, you can bet your bottom dollar its launch is going off without a hitch and will only get stronger come 2014 with all the games that are coming out. Nintendo will have some good games but not major games. In that case the Gamecube had major games....but that didnt really help . Just like the GC era the first major 3D Mario wasnt exactly what we expected from a 3D mario game. Seems like a game that just should've been a new IP. I will play it regardless just like I did Sunshine, but still, I hope you understand my point.

Lets look at what Microsoft had done to align themselves with Sony during their first year lead. It wasnt the first party exclusives that got MS to rise to power but the third party games. There was no Halo 3 from 2005-2006. It was exclusive contract with third parties for the Xbox and Call of Duty that made it start to have relevance and this was before Modern Warfare. 

He who holds the third parties (the wealth of games) holds the power of stability with gamers.

Nintendo forgot that important lesson after the SNES era when Sega was close to being snuffed out and Sony came onto the scene.


Mario Kart, Smash Bros., and arguably even Zelda, have all become considerably more and more popular and out in the public consciousness than they were heading into the GC era. Those three games alone will help give Wii U a major boost next year. Then you have major rpgs like SMT x FE and "X", you have a major exclusive in the form of Bayonetta 2, and you will also have, undoubtedly, many more games that have as yet not even been announced, such as the as-yet-unrevealed third game in that "exclusive Sonic deal", which is rumored to be a Sonic/Mario crossover game of some kind, NOT an Olympic game. If that is the case, that would indeed be pretty huge.

 

I know the PS4 has a lot of hype, and will do pretty well. I simply stated my opinion that I think Wii U has a solid chance itself of having the most success in 2014. But like I also said, we'll just have to wait and find out what actually goes down.



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Incubi on 01 August 2013

This is how most people whom are'nt message board maniacs will be thinking come this fall:

"What entertainment system will give me, my family and close friends the most fun this holiday?"

If your answer is not WiiU, I'd say you have no credibility whatsoever. Nintendo will win the holidays 2013 and no amount of posts on whatever message board you spend your life on will change that.




TwoThreeSoFly on 01 August 2013
zorg1000 said:
TwoThreeSoFly said:


I apologize for the miscommunication. The biggest factor this gen dispute what people are saying will be the price of the consoles. All three are going to have to work really hard to drive that down throughout this gen if they want any kind of mass market penetration. I believe price was a huge factor for the original wii on top of the great way the marketed the motion tech. I think if at all possible you could get more than one system this gen, you should that way you don't miss out on any great games. 

No problem, partially my fault as well.

To me there are 3 things that a system needs to get right in order to sell well, games, price and marketing. Wii U is selling badly becuase currently its failing at all three of those things, its had the longest drought in gaming history, is the most expensive console on the market and they aremt marketing becuase there are no games to market. Later this year and next they will have fixed all those problems I see them doing very well.

PS4/One will have marketing down but games+price will be an issue. I see them both having a great launch due to diehard fans but next year when the launch hype dies down I see them having a bit of a slump (not as bad as Wii U slump). 3/4 games released on those consoles will be on up to 6 consoles, PS4/One/PS3/360/WiiU/PC, so that means its exclusive games/features that will set them apart. As of now the exclusives we know from PS4/One arent known to be huge sellers and I dont see Kinect 2.0 being the craze that the original was.

When an average consumer is looking for a console next year and sees PS3/360/Wii U at $200-300 or PS4/One at $400-500, I think most will choose PS360U. If there into shooters/racing/sports/sandbox games then PS360 is the way to go since there half the price, have many of the same games and have more exclusives. If there big fans of Nintendo games or buyong for kids/family then Wii U is the way to go.

I think PS4 and One have a bright future and will both sell alot but wont truly take off until 2015 when they get a price cut, more solid exclusives and PS360 support slows down.


I agree with everything you said except for the power of influence xbox360 will have on xbox one. I think Microsoft will pull mostly all support for the 360 by the end of 2014 but I think that the ps3 will be around for at least 3 more years. When I say pull support I mean first party title releases. 



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zorg1000 on 01 August 2013
TwoThreeSoFly said:
zorg1000 said:
TwoThreeSoFly said:


I apologize for the miscommunication. The biggest factor this gen dispute what people are saying will be the price of the consoles. All three are going to have to work really hard to drive that down throughout this gen if they want any kind of mass market penetration. I believe price was a huge factor for the original wii on top of the great way the marketed the motion tech. I think if at all possible you could get more than one system this gen, you should that way you don't miss out on any great games. 

No problem, partially my fault as well.

To me there are 3 things that a system needs to get right in order to sell well, games, price and marketing. Wii U is selling badly becuase currently its failing at all three of those things, its had the longest drought in gaming history, is the most expensive console on the market and they aremt marketing becuase there are no games to market. Later this year and next they will have fixed all those problems I see them doing very well.

PS4/One will have marketing down but games+price will be an issue. I see them both having a great launch due to diehard fans but next year when the launch hype dies down I see them having a bit of a slump (not as bad as Wii U slump). 3/4 games released on those consoles will be on up to 6 consoles, PS4/One/PS3/360/WiiU/PC, so that means its exclusive games/features that will set them apart. As of now the exclusives we know from PS4/One arent known to be huge sellers and I dont see Kinect 2.0 being the craze that the original was.

When an average consumer is looking for a console next year and sees PS3/360/Wii U at $200-300 or PS4/One at $400-500, I think most will choose PS360U. If there into shooters/racing/sports/sandbox games then PS360 is the way to go since there half the price, have many of the same games and have more exclusives. If there big fans of Nintendo games or buyong for kids/family then Wii U is the way to go.

I think PS4 and One have a bright future and will both sell alot but wont truly take off until 2015 when they get a price cut, more solid exclusives and PS360 support slows down.


I agree with everything you said except for the power of influence xbox360 will have on xbox one. I think Microsoft will pull mostly all support for the 360 by the end of 2014 but I think that the ps3 will be around for at least 3 more years. When I say pull support I mean first party title releases. 

Ya 360 first party support has and will continue to dwindle but arent Titanfall and Crimson Dragon 2014 releases? Those are also coming to 360 I believe. 360 thrives off of 3rd party support tho and it will continue to get most of the One titles.



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prayformojo on 01 August 2013
Gamecube said:
prayformojo said:
I think the PS4 is going to be Sony's return to the PS1 and PS2 days. I think they're set to dominate the industry again. Maybe not quite at PS2's level, but definitely PS1's.

Wii U is Gamecube all over again. Good games, no sales.

Xbox One doesn't even HAVE an audience so I don't know who's going to buy it. Maybe dude bros? I don't know, but I don't see them challenging at all.


Gamecube had higher sales it the same point in it's life:). XB1 does have an audience. Please keep fanboyism to a minimum:)

Fanboyism means having brand loyalty to such extremes as to not see any flaw in said brand and having the belief that all other consoles and systems are trash. I just got done playing a 3 hour session of New Leaf, own an NES with 70 carts, grew up with Nintendo (I'm 33, and had an NES before the world even knew what Zelda was) and I've owned every console they've ever made, handhelds included.

I want Nintendo to do what it did between the NES-N64 generations. I WANT another masterpiece like OOT. I don't WANT them to fail. But my wants and reality are two seperate things. The Wii-U is failing, hard. I don't think it's going to get out of third place this generation. It's the Gamecube all over again.

If that's fanboyism, I guess I'm a fanboy lol



prayformojo on 01 August 2013
Incubi said:

OK, 4,3 mill after 16 months on sale. The games did'nt start coming until september 95. So, sue me:p

"Also, keep in mind that the PS1 was'nt available worldwide until Sep 1995".

Does'nt matter considering how much of an early adopter I was:p

Oh, btw. How many WiiU units do you think Nintendo will have shipped in 16 months from launch?


The problem with comparing the PS1 and Wii U sales is due to the fact that the industry is like, what, 50 times larger? If you wanted to do a fair comparison, you'd have to look at the ratio of gamers from that time and now, then readjust.

Comparing PS1 sales in 1995 to Wii U sales in 2013 is like comparing sales of a game at launch vs sales of a game 5 years in when the install base is huge. It doesn't give accuarate results.