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Wii U taking it back from... 32 9.91%
 
PS4 conquering more territories, taking names 276 85.45%
 
Xbone exploding with TITANFALL and Halo later 15 4.64%
 
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NewGuy on 06 March 2014
Soundwave said:
NewGuy said:
Soundwave said:

I think the importance of exclusives honestly is a bit overrated. You need to have *variety* and developer support. People buy a console to invest in the ecosystem, not just for 1 or 2 games. 

It's why the Playstation beat the N64, even though the N64 had arguably 3 of the 4 "landmark" exclusives of the gen (Mario 64, GoldenEye, and Zelda: OoT).

People by and large want to pick and choose what they want to play, not to be told "hey play this 1 game for the next two months".

PS1 beat the N64 for a variety of reasons. Price, CD, and, as you metioned, variety of dev support. Make no mistake about it though, the PS1 had plenty of landmark exclusives. There were more than just 4 exclusive landmarks that you mentioned, off the top of my head, FFVII, DQVII, RE, GT, Tekken, Crash, Tomb Raider, MGS, etc


I'm just saying generally speaking most people agree that Nintendo probably had 3 of the 4 or 5 "big" exclusives that generation -- Final Fantasy VII and probably MGS being the other two ... and yet the PSOne outsold the N64 by 3x. 

People buy a platform for the overall ecosystem that it provides, a hardware platform has to be well rounded by and large to surpass 35 million hardware units sold. Nintendo keeps insiting on following the formula of relying on 1-2 "miracle exclusives" every year to make up for various other short comings though ... it just doesn't work. 

I disagree. While I agree the N64 had the huge exclusives you speak of, I can't see how you can ignore GT/GT2 (10 million each), Crash (7 million), DQVII (4 mil in JP alone), Tekken 3 (7 million), etc. Those are huge exclusives as well that certainly helped the PS1. As a matter of fact, I think most games I mentioned sold more than 5 million on PS1. That's huge



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trixiemafia86 on 06 March 2014
pezus said:
This is too obvious.

PS4

the incoming GOTG makes things competitive as iv been told. u never know now with that in the mix, do you?



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HylianSwordsman on 06 March 2014

PS4 is the safest bet, to be sure. At the rate the other two are selling, I'd say Wii U would get to both 15 and 25 million second. Wii U is more likely to explode into success as well, as far as I'm concerned. PS4 is most likely to get to 15 and 25 million first, Wii U and Xbone have no chance of getting 15 million first, but I think of the two Wii U has the better chance of getting 25 million first. If any of them were to take the crown back, even for a few weeks, it'd be Wii U. Anything could happen though. Past gens have shown us as much. PS3 is winning against 360, a console with a year head start and $200 cheaper at the start, and some even think if it stays on the market as long as PS2 did it might even catch up to Wii. 3DS was flailing helplessly in the beginning then exploded. Same with DS, except even more so. Keep this in mind. We can only really go off what we know, but unexpected things have been known to happen every gen.



Nintentacle on 06 March 2014

Pointless thread...



davygee on 06 March 2014

25m???? Okay, the PS4 again, and easily. I honestly can't see the WiiU getting to 15m and before too long Nintendo will come out with it successor. I have serious doubts the XBone will see 25m and if it does, it will take a hell of a long time unless MS comes out with huge numbers of Exclusive games and drops the price ridiculously.

PS4 to reach 25m around Summer 2015, XBone to reach 15m around the same time and probably take another 12-18 months to get anywhere near 25m.



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Nate4Drake on 06 March 2014
daredevil.shark said:
Easy answer. Its PS4. It might hit 15 million mark this year.


Yeah, it's like to ask people who will win in a fight if you put a big tiger, a little dog and a little cat in the same cage. PS4 is the big tiger, of course.

PS4 could hit 18-19M by the end of 2014, MARK MY WORDS.



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jeffersoncosta1985 on 06 March 2014

Wii U probably will not even reach the number of sales of GameCube.

Titanfall will give a good boost in sales of Xbox One, but one game is not enough to overcome the advantages of PS4, which is more powerful and cheaper.

PS4 already won this generation.



LiquorandGunFun on 06 March 2014

Unless Sony has a MS xbo PR Flub, PS4 will most likely be to 25 million first, who is to say there will not be a turn around for xbo, it happens.



 

AZWification on 06 March 2014

 The PS4 will be the first console that reaches 25 million units sold...... unless Titanfall kills it of course.



                
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Azhraell on 06 March 2014

What I find funny, there are more people thinking wii u will be the first, instead of xbox one.