Wii vs PS4 Sales Thread: PS4's lead down to 379,689 units

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think-man on 01 January 2014

Nice, Id also like to see a PS2 vs Ps4 since thats the console to beat,

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DucksUnlimited on 01 January 2014

AnthonyW86 said:

DucksUnlimited said:

AnthonyW86 said:

While I do expect the PS4 to eventually edge out the Wii, it's going to fall pretty far behind the first few years. I think a comparison to the PS2 would make more sense.

I don't know, including the Japan the PS4 should give it a run for it's money atleast until the next holiday's. Wii averaged about 200k-250k a week during most of it's first year, and the PS3 started doing 150k-200k a week when it dropped to $399/$499. I think anyone expects the PS4 to be more succesfull than the PS3 so 200K a week on average should atleast be possible right? Maybe even more.

The PS3 also had a much better library at that time than the PS4 currently does. Even though the PS4 will likely sell quite a bit faster than the PS3, expecting its first year to outsell the PS3 during its peak seems kind of unrealistic to me, let alone matching the Wii.

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irstupid on 01 January 2014

PS4 fad confirmed then.

Since the Wii was a fad.

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Troll_Whisperer on 01 January 2014

PS4 will be ahead for a few weeks, then fall behind for a few years, then overtake Wii again and remain ahead.

BTW, a graph would be amazing.

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Roma on 01 January 2014

irstupid said:
PS4 fad confirmed then.

Since the Wii was a fad.

Sony platforms are never fads only everything ells dude

OT: as other have said Wii was very supply constrained and would have sold so much more if there where units to meet demand

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deadly2choke on 01 January 2014

Roma said:

irstupid said:
PS4 fad confirmed then.

Since the Wii was a fad.

Sony platforms are never fads only everything ells dude

OT: as other have said Wii was very supply constrained and would have sold so much more if there where units to meet demand

well psp was a fad

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Fusioncode on 01 January 2014

The PS4 won't be out of stock as long as the Wii was, but it's also $150 more expensive. This will be interesting to watch.

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ice on 01 January 2014

Add the Wii U and Xbone, I want to see how they all compare in the upcoming weeks lol

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AnthonyW86 on 01 January 2014

DucksUnlimited said:

AnthonyW86 said:

DucksUnlimited said:

AnthonyW86 said:

While I do expect the PS4 to eventually edge out the Wii, it's going to fall pretty far behind the first few years. I think a comparison to the PS2 would make more sense.

I don't know, including the Japan the PS4 should give it a run for it's money atleast until the next holiday's. Wii averaged about 200k-250k a week during most of it's first year, and the PS3 started doing 150k-200k a week when it dropped to $399/$499. I think anyone expects the PS4 to be more succesfull than the PS3 so 200K a week on average should atleast be possible right? Maybe even more.

The PS3 also had a much better library at that time than the PS4 currently does. Even though the PS4 will likely sell quite a bit faster than the PS3, expecting its first year to outsell the PS3 during its peak seems kind of unrealistic to me, let alone matching the Wii.

l agree that it's not a great comparison but it's the closest thing we have. Comparing it to a $600 ps3 launch is useless, besides the price was cut less than a year after launch. Also PS3 had a pretty big drought of software after launch, PS4 line-up looks better.

I fully expect PS4 to fall behind the Wii in weekly sales starting from the month April, but including the Japanese launch PS4 could have build up a nice lead by then.