Kasz216 said:
Kane1389 said:
Kasz216 said:
Sort of?
http://www.vgchartz.com/tools/hw_yoy.php?reg=Global&start_year=2011&end_year=2014&console=PS3
It had a HUGE dropoff right after the PS4 released.
Systems keep selling after a new one comes out, but they see a big dropoff.
Funny thing is your both wrong.
The big difference between the two was the GBA was released in 2001... and the DS was released in 2004.
So GBA had 3 years as the "Go to advanced system."
While PSP was released in 2004 and the Vita 2011.
So Vita had over twice as long as the "Main system" of it's brand.
As shown, the PSP took a big drop when the Vita released. Despite it being sort of a flop.
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Having a drop doesnt mean it was dead. It was an 8 year old console and it was still 2nd best selling one until recently, it also kept relatevly healthy sotware sales. So its nowhere near dead yet, especially if you consider its still high price (for its age)
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Hence "sort of"
No, no 'sort of''. If PS3 is sort of dead, I wonder how do you view all other hardware except for PS4, since it was beating every thing except its successor.So everyone (outside of PS4) is completly dead in your view??
Also it wasn't a "drop" so much as a gigantic dropoff. The Wii had smaller proportional drops then the PS3 did there. Until the release of the Wii U....
And even after its gigantic drop off, its still selling better than Wii is (and Wii U too.) Again, perspective. The only console PS3 is doing bad when compared to on YOY basis, is PS3 itself. Up until 3 weeks ago or something like that, it was 2nd best selling console and 3rd best selling hardware.
The point was that new hardware causes big drops and slowly leads to the old systems destruction, pretty much regardless of anything else.
I never denied that, that wasnt my point. I said that Sony's systems continiue to sell relatively well long after their next gen counter part, I never said there isnt going to be a huge drop, thats unavoidable. You'd think with PS1 selling well after PS2 launch and PS2 selling well over 50m units after ps360, this would be self explanitory, guess i was wrong
The GBA sold quite the same as the PS3 is now, relative to sales when the DS came out. Actually it faired a little better.
The difference? It came out in the GBA's 3rd year. VS Playstations 8th was it?
If the PS4 came out 3 years after the PS3 came out....
do you think it'd still be selling today?
Not as well as it would without a successor on the market. But if both 360 and PS3 were in the same situation now they were 3 years into their life (price and library wise) I think PS3 would still sell relatively well compared to competition.
I don't... hell that's before the PS3 even ever got popular, it's seems near impossible the PS3 would of still had a miracle comeback... doesn't it?
See point above
The trends in this case pretty much speak for themselves. Even PS2 took a big drop when their successor systems released.
I could be wrong about this,but I think PS2 outsolld PS360 in 2006 and 2007 which again speaks for lognetivity of PS consoles.Same how PS3 outsold WiiU in 2013 (and probably will in 2014 as well) and has a slight chance to outsell X1 in 2014. Regardless PS2 still went on to sell 50+ million untis into the next gen. No piece of hardware came even close to that
Unless you beat your console to death and let it get to near zero sales before releasing it's successor, a systems main killer will be it's successor.
True, but that doest mean the system is gonna be dead, or 'sort of' dead, especially if it keeps outselling the competition.
Which honestly should be fairly common sense. Espeically in the case of something like the DS, where it played the GBA games already.
Why would you ever buy a GBA when you could play every GBA on the DS... and also play DS games?
That doesnt really work in PS3's case, it isnt backwards compatible nor can its games be played on PS4.
Hell, once my PSP broke i bought a 3DS for my mobile gaming....
and a horde of DS games.
I didn't own my first 3DS game for months... and even then it was a gift.
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