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JGarret on 05 February 2014
Damkos said:

I just wondered about the overall decline of sales. I love my Wii U and the only thing that bothers me is wheter it'll get assassins creed 5.

back to the topic - if Wii was an anomaly and this can't be repeated for now, then why my first (home) console was Wii, which got me into gaming and I bought PS3 and Wii U then?

I can't seem to believe that PS4 and 3ds will be selling so well forever. 3ds was perfect in 2013, it's falling a bit now. PS4 might be perfect this year, but it can't go like that forever. A decline in 2015? quite possible IMO.


Thing is, the Wii and DS brought a lot of people who had never really played, and also, I believe, people who quit after the NES.The Wii was like NES 2.0

So, with those people gone, we see a scenario that´s more like the 6th generation (PS2/GCN/Xbox/GBA) or even the 5th gen.

PS2  - ~155 million

GCN - ~22 million

Xbox - ~24 million

GBA - ~80 million

Combined = around 280 million

No console will do PS2 numbers.There´s a (high?) chance the Wii U will perform worse than the GCN.The 3DS might (or perhaps, it seems likely) sell worse than the GBA, but I don´t think the difference will be very big in the end.

The X1 will do much better than the Xbox, even if things right now look bad in Europe, I just don´t know if it´ll sell as well as the 360.

The PS4 will probably do pretty well.Right now, I don´t see any reason why it shouldn´t at least sell around 80/85/90 million, but this generation just started, lots of things could happen.

Overall, we´ll see a contraction, but don´t mistake that for the apocalyptic scenario some are trumpeting.



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sethnintendo on 05 February 2014
Xenostar said:
Its doing Vita bad which is pretty bad as it means it might not even overtake the Vita ever.


It will overtake the Vita this year.



Xenostar on 05 February 2014
sethnintendo said:
Xenostar said:
Its doing Vita bad which is pretty bad as it means it might not even overtake the Vita ever.


It will overtake the Vita this year.


I dont doubt it things seem to be picking up in america, but your post did remind me of the many years in a row that PS3 supporters said it will definatley overtake the 360 this year.



jonathanalis on 05 February 2014

odd, 3DS doing better on europe than america and japan.



sethnintendo on 05 February 2014
Xenostar said:
sethnintendo said:
Xenostar said:
Its doing Vita bad which is pretty bad as it means it might not even overtake the Vita ever.


It will overtake the Vita this year.


I dont doubt it things seem to be picking up in america, but your post did remind me of the many years in a row that PS3 supporters said it will definatley overtake the 360 this year.

I just need to start some stupid B_e_l_i_e_v_e campaign.



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sidmeiernintifan on 05 February 2014

I think many people will buy a Wii U only when it is around USD 200 with a highly desired bundle. Those people will also have have a nice backlog of new versions of Nintendo classic available.
I still think it can sell better than N64 numbers. It is selling better this year than last year, and 3D World is all they have.



Xenostar on 05 February 2014
sethnintendo said:
Xenostar said:
sethnintendo said:
Xenostar said:
Its doing Vita bad which is pretty bad as it means it might not even overtake the Vita ever.


It will overtake the Vita this year.


I dont doubt it things seem to be picking up in america, but your post did remind me of the many years in a row that PS3 supporters said it will definatley overtake the 360 this year.

I just need to start some stupid B_e_l_i_e_v_e campaign.

lol

You mean U_n_d_e_r_s_t_a_n_d campaign :P



Figgycal on 05 February 2014

The 7th gen was an anomaly because of the wii. A better comparison would've been for the 6th gen with the Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube.



Nem on 05 February 2014

If you look at it, its only selling 30k less than the "not-doomed" Xbox one.



Figgycal on 05 February 2014
Nem said:
If you look at it, its only selling 20k less than the "not-doomed" Xbox one.

Also not a good sign. It's very troubling how bad its sales are in Europe.