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Ucell on 03 July 2014
small44 said:
Ucell said:
PS4 cannot sell that much in a year because:

1) Its price is much higher.

2) Like other PS consoles, it will be popular for much longer than the Wii and will sell for many more years.


Do you think ps4 will never have a price drop?

Timelines alligned it will consistantly remain higher than the Wii.



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small44 on 03 July 2014
Ucell said:
small44 said:
Ucell said:
PS4 cannot sell that much in a year because:

1) Its price is much higher.

2) Like other PS consoles, it will be popular for much longer than the Wii and will sell for many more years.


Do you think ps4 will never have a price drop?

Timelines alligned it will consistantly remain higher than the Wii.

Wii got it's first price drop in 2009 3 years after it's release just a 50$ price drop and the second one in 2011 ,ps4 could match Wii price rapidly if Sony want.



PS4 - over 100 millions let's say 120m
Xbox One - 70m
Wii U - 25m

Vita - 15m if it will not get Final Fantasy Kingdoms Heart and Monster Hunter 20m otherwise
3DS - 80m

jlmurph2 on 03 July 2014
Ucell said:
binary solo said:
Arius Dion said:
chapset said:
Arius Dion said:
Many are ignoring trends. This gen will not sniff last gens totals. PS4 isn't even doing better than PS3 yet, imagine PS3 was the market leader last gen with its putrid start? There is no Wii this gen. The economy will not allow this gen to be greater than last.

whut?? wtf are you talking about the ps4 did 8.2 mill in 8 months while it took 14months for the ps3 to do that. check the numbers before posting dumb shit


PS4 is a poor market leader;. in the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king, it won't be long before PS4 starts tracking below PS3. Wii is untouchable. Bottomline. Watch your mouth kid.

I think PS4 will be the lowest selling winning console since SNES (it will beat SNES of course), but even I think it will track ahead of PS3 for a good 2 years+. It will track behind PS3 when we get to the point in PS3's lifecycle that it got a trim and price cut to $299. But I do think the PS3/4 tracking will be fairly close .

You guys still don't seem to have any basis for your claims. Try harder.


You act as if hes an Xbox/Nintendo fanboy/troll. Hes actually a Sony fan no? Hes just being logical. This gen will not be as long as last which will make PS4 the lowest selling leading console since SNES.



BeElite on 03 July 2014
jlmurph2 said:


You act as if hes an Xbox/Nintendo fanboy/troll. Hes actually a Sony fan no? Hes just being logical. This gen will not be as long as last which will make PS4 the lowest selling leading console since SNES.

Care to be more specific since the snes part makes it almost seem as if the PS4 will barely pass 50mand Not pass Nes 62m LOL!!



jlmurph2 on 03 July 2014
BeElite said:
jlmurph2 said:


You act as if hes an Xbox/Nintendo fanboy/troll. Hes actually a Sony fan no? Hes just being logical. This gen will not be as long as last which will make PS4 the lowest selling leading console since SNES.

Care to be more specific since the snes part makes it almost seem as if the PS4 will barely pass 50mand Not pass Nes 62m LOL!!


He means it wont pass up 5th 6th or 7th gen leaders But will definitely beat 4th gen's by getting around the sales of the PS3. 



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Ucell on 03 July 2014
jlmurph2 said:
Ucell said:

You guys still don't seem to have any basis for your claims. Try harder.


You act as if hes an Xbox/Nintendo fanboy/troll. Hes actually a Sony fan no? Hes just being logical. This gen will not be as long as last which will make PS4 the lowest selling leading console since SNES.

Him being a Sony fan doesn't automatically make him right. I was just saying there doesn't seem to be any logic behind his claim besides some hypothetical issues which has yet to have an effect on PS4 sales.



Rab on 03 July 2014

I'll be surprised if PS4 does as well as the PS3



RazorDragon on 03 July 2014
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Nintentacle said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
PwerlvlAmy said:
yeah it wont reach wii


Maybe not the Wii's peak, but Sony was dealing with actual dedicated gamers all the way to casuals. The Wii's sales were front-loaded from cateringto non-gamers which is why there is an issue with third party sales on a console that sold 100 M. Sony will reach those numbers over a longer period of time but will enjoy longer lasting success with a more varied library of games.

1. The only first party game on the PS4 that casuals could enjoy is LittleBigPlanet 3, IMO.

2. I wouldn't say Wii's sales were front-loaded. It sold well its whole life-cycle up until 2012.


1. Casuals play Assassins Creed, COD and other games as well. NIntendo catered the Wii U to a new market that no one had cracked. Non-gamers. People who don't really have the time to game. They dumbed down the console so everyone could get their hands coupled with an extremely attractive price and Wii Sports title. 

Sony has only begun to start. They will have better legs as I've said before. Nintendo hasn't enjoyed 60+ m sales without third party so this was their first taste of success trying a new tactic. Sadly it was horrible for their third party sales in a traditional sense.

2. They were front loaded. It sold well from 2006 to 2010. 2011-12 were when it started dropping off the face of the earth. Once the Kinect came everyone found their next fad in 2010. People and their mothers were trying to get their hands on Kinects after 2010 just like they did with the Wii, but it was short lived.


Except Wii only started to slow down sales when Nintendo pretty much discontinued game support in 2011. It was still selling quite well in 2010, it's much more likely that the system's sales slowed down because no new games were being released than anything else, otherwise it would've sold nothing in holiday 2010 thanks to Kinect's release.



Pavolink on 03 July 2014

Sony is not as intelligent as Nintendo to create such a big fad. Wii was a success that only Nintendo can recreate.



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ikki5 on 03 July 2014
Ucell said:
jlmurph2 said:
Ucell said:

You guys still don't seem to have any basis for your claims. Try harder.


You act as if hes an Xbox/Nintendo fanboy/troll. Hes actually a Sony fan no? Hes just being logical. This gen will not be as long as last which will make PS4 the lowest selling leading console since SNES.

Him being a Sony fan doesn't automatically make him right. I was just saying there doesn't seem to be any logic behind his claim besides some hypothetical issues which has yet to have an effect on PS4 sales.

Really any logic of claims that are about sales and how well X console is going to sell in 6 years doesn't have a good basis for any claims.