Does make me laugh how many conversations and arguments are suddenly rendered all pointless with an adjustment.

Tbh we will see more and final adjustments should come around early february when the big 3 release their quarterly reports

This thread is so damn funny now

It's not like the Playstation brand isn't big in the USA, PS1 and PS2 did dominate back in the day, and PS3 did fairly well too.

Guess we heard different rumors. Only time will tell in the end, but you have to agree the PS4-XBO gap in USA will be smaller then the PS3-360 gap (or in favor of PS4).

Don't forget X360 had A LOT of exclusives at the start too. Maybe not as many studios, but in terms of the sheer number of exclusives (even if you ignore timed ones), 360 had more exclusives then XBO. Who's to say exclusive support won't dwindle on XBO like it did on 360? I mean Sony's biggest studios were still primarily supporting PS3 in 2013, don't you think in the future PS4 will get a lot of exclusives too?

P.S. PS3 didn't top the 360 in the number of exclusives until 2011 This was 6 years after the 360 launched, we can't estimate what's going to happen 6 years down the road for XBO/PS4.

P.P.S. - Competition makes better products. PS4/XBO are better because of each other, and I agree with you about owning multiple consoles. I'm sticking to PC/PS4/WiiU for now, but before the 8th gen ends, if they sell XBO's without Kinect, I will get one. I don't want to miss out

Numbers for Wii U are not great, but not terrible either I think. It will be interesting to see if the Wii U can make some headway against the other systems throughout the first half of next year. There are relatively few big games for either, and Nintendo could potentially will have Mario Kart, Wii Fit, DK, and potentially Smash and Bayonetta in the first half of the year.

So, can the 3DS sell 1M per week for the next 3 weeks to reach that 15M+ everyone was talking (including the obvious overtracking, of course).

The playstation brand is big worldwide. Sony has been in the game longer than microsoft. The USA will be great for both but the gap wont be that big. X360 did have more exclusives from the start but most were third party....meaning they weren't set on stone. Many came to pc after and some to ps3. Alot of gamers knew exclusive games on xbox sometimes ended up on pc so i assume they just waited for a pc version. Ps3 on the other hand had alot more real exclusives. As i said before microsoft has more 1st party studios than before. Unless they close them all down (i doubt) they will keep pumping out games for the xbox one. This time around its different for both consoles. Isn't it easier to pirate dvd games instead of blu ray games? i dont know much about pirating games but xbox 360 games got pirated to an extreme. Pirating caused alot of games to sell poorly. We will see 3 or 4 years from now if they are still creating games for it. 

So 250k for gt6 for one day. Not bad. Next weeks numbers will be more telling.

Wii Fit U is available digitally, but right now it's only available to previous Wii Fit owners.  There is no balance board package, so new adopters can't check it out.  They haven't really marketed it in traditional ways either, so they (hopefully) would do some kind of marketing campaign for the physical version. 

As for Smash, development began on that around the time uprising was finished.  So, around February 2012.  That means by the middle of the year, they'll have had about 2 years to work on it.  So, plenty of development time especially with Namco helping out, and the fact that it runs on an engine that looks very very similar to Brawl.

If I were Nintendo I'd be trying to have a big release every month to month and a half, with a really big one capping each quarter.  So Mario Kart Q1, Smash Q2, Zelda Q3, and hopefully some new IP they've been working on for the holiday.

For now.