making fun of people's predictions, even though extremely unlikely, is worse than making those predictions.

hm.. I still remember when Wii users were celebrating victory after a few month

it was annoying and in the end most of them ended up being wrong about how big the difference will be at the end - don't make the same mistake guys (well, for most of you it seems to be too late)

Nah bruh. The only thing that will get dominated is the Wii U. X1 will hold its own.

To the original poster, I bolded it in case you have bad eyes.  xD This is a perfect explanation of why the PS4 will not mirror the PS2.

PS2 can't be topped, even Dalailama knows that.

Seems more in line, actually. 70-90 million PS4, 40-60 million One, 20-30 million Wii U (really hope Wii U can at least match GC. They're making the right games this time, unlike in the GC era. It'd be a shame for them to get the wrong message about why Wii U isn't working)

"hasn't even been released in japan"

been reading this a lot. if comgnet preorders mean anything, ps4 japanese launch will be aroung 50% of wii u's launch or less. week 2 and onwards will be tough untill japanese centric software releases.

There's titanfall, Gears, Halo and others megahit franchises MS can get its hand on with their deep pockets.

the 1st titanfall is on xone,and its preorders are a little better than infamous,, the last gears was made by a dif team than epic and was considered the worse of the bunch,now another team has it and it might still be a few years off. bungie didn't make the last halo(although pretty) and was considered the worse of the bunch... ms has always had deep pockets... xone is doing pretty good,but looks bad because of the new ps2 of the world(ps4) is disappearing off shelves quicker than twinkies in front of fat chicks.

How short people's memories are.

Does everybody just not remember the first 1-2 years of the PS3's existence? If I recall correctly, it was frequently being outsold by the GBA. I remember a distinct period where like, over 6 weeks, the only game that released on the PS3 was a Pirates of the Carribbean tie-in title.

Meanwhile, the Wii was literally sold out consistently for at least half a year. To be honest, I cannot remember how the 360 was doing, but I think it was still outselling the PS3 on a weekly basis by quite some margin.

Point is... look how radically things can change over the course of the generation. To make any real predictions beyond a few months is just laughably stupid. It's the pretence of knowledge. To then go on and predict such extreme outcomes just moves it from laughably stupid, to pure moronic.

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I don't think Microsoft are very good competitors. I personally don't think they'd survive in a free market environment. Too much of their revenue comes from military, educational and other state contracts, and some inertia from their fantastic performance decades back in securing major corporate contracts.

To be fair, the evidence seems to be showing that neither Sony or Nintendo are fantastic, either. So there's that. But I personally don't see Microsoft being able to pull off a turnaround like Sony did, without major restructuring in the company (which may well happen - new CEO) (it also took heads rolling in the Playstation division to block the hole in that Titanic, too).

Except this Tim there won't be a 130 million gap between first and second place.