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Riot Of The Blood on 13 February 2014

Wouldn't worry about it. Prices are still too high right now for mass appeal. And ps360 are still popular. This gen is going to start slow and turn around real quickly once the big 3 get their prices down.



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Lawlight on 13 February 2014

Supply constraints on the PS4 obviously.



Soundwave on 13 February 2014
Lawlight said:
Supply constraints on the PS4 obviously.

The Wii was equally supply restained if not moreso. I remember my local radio station would have Wii updates where people would call in if they spotted a Wii at any store so desperate customers could rush over and get one. 

I also saw two soccer moms nearly come to blows over the last Wii at a store, lol. That first year or two for the Wii was nuts. 



superhippy420 on 13 February 2014
darthdevidem01 said:
pezus said:
MS needs to do something. Its biggest market by far and sales are already crashing.

BTw, where is that 56k WiiU number from??

It was reported in our NPD thread as being from Neogaf after percentages were out.


It's the wrong number.  They were comparing January 2014 of PS4/Xbox One to Wii U's January 2013.  The odds of the Wii U selling exactly 56k two years in a row is pretty low.   We don't have a Wii U number yet. 


As for overall this gen.  Sales really are pretty bad overall.  PS4 is doing solid numbers but it looks like it is doing much better then it really is due to how low the Wii U and Xbone numbers are.   There is just no really compelling software out on anything right now.    PS4 is building a solid lead right now but at this point I don't think it's a stretch to say that if Nintendo or Microsoft dropped some a huge AAA title that really catches on things could change quickly.



Lawlight on 13 February 2014

To put things in perspective:

GameCube - 62K
PS2 - 248K
Xbox 360 - 249K

So, PS4 did better than PS2, GC or Xbox 360.



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Lawlight on 13 February 2014
Soundwave said:
Lawlight said:
Supply constraints on the PS4 obviously.

The Wii was equally supply restained if not moreso. I remember my local radio station would have Wii updates where people would call in if they spotted a Wii at any store so desperate customers could rush over and get one. 

I also saw two soccer moms nearly come to blows over the last Wii at a store, lol. That first year or two for the Wii was nuts. 


The Wii was targeting another audience. An audience which just bought casual games. The PS4 will outsell it, don't worry.



Soundwave on 13 February 2014
Lawlight said:
Soundwave said:
Lawlight said:
Supply constraints on the PS4 obviously.

The Wii was equally supply restained if not moreso. I remember my local radio station would have Wii updates where people would call in if they spotted a Wii at any store so desperate customers could rush over and get one. 

I also saw two soccer moms nearly come to blows over the last Wii at a store, lol. That first year or two for the Wii was nuts. 


The Wii was targeting another audience. An audience which just bought casual games. The PS4 will outsell it, don't worry.

Perhaps, but I think we're looking at a large industry decline overall. 

120 mill - PS4

50 mill - XBox

18-20 mill - Wii U

Seems like we're trending that way. 

Casuals are dumping home consoles and dedicated portables like a plague. 



darthdevidem01 on 13 February 2014
Lawlight said:
To put things in perspective:

GameCube - 62K
PS2 - 248K
Xbox 360 - 249K

So, PS4 did better than PS2, GC or Xbox 360.

Is this from NPD 2002?

Will add to the OP

Thank you LAwlight!



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brendude13 on 13 February 2014

Dayum. That looks pretty dire.



superhippy420 on 13 February 2014
Lawlight said:
Soundwave said:
Lawlight said:
Supply constraints on the PS4 obviously.

The Wii was equally supply restained if not moreso. I remember my local radio station would have Wii updates where people would call in if they spotted a Wii at any store so desperate customers could rush over and get one. 

I also saw two soccer moms nearly come to blows over the last Wii at a store, lol. That first year or two for the Wii was nuts. 


The Wii was targeting another audience. An audience which just bought casual games. The PS4 will outsell it, don't worry.


You have to target the casuals if you want big numbers don't kid yourself.   The PS2 may be the most casual console of all time.    It was a DVD player, cheaper then every other DVD player out there that also played games.   On top of that it had great games too which is why the total in the end was 150+ million.  Wii was the same deal.  It launched with Zelda.  Zelda isn't casual at all.  Wii Sports is 100 percent casual.     You have to lure in both crowds.  Right now PS4 is getting all the Sony fans and is getting alot of the Microsoft fans that jumped ship.    If it doesn't have games / find some way to appeal to casuals it will never get over 80 million.