7th and 8th Gen First Full Year Sales Aligned

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iceboy151 on 05 September 2014

platformmaster918 said:

it was an anomaly and not the product of a normal gaming market. It had an abnormal selling pattern and sold to a different audience than ANY of the current consoles are aimed at. In other words those people are not part of the gaming market they're just people who happened to buy one game console one time. Hell some of the grandmas might not even be with us anymore

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chapset on 05 September 2014

I'm surprised at hoe similar the wii U is to the ps3 and xbox360, they really were late bloomers :P

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small44 on 05 September 2014

XanderXT said:
Why is everyone hating on the Wii? What did it ever do to you?

Maybe peoples feared that 3rd party will start to make a lot of casuals games and much more less hardcores games

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

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platformmaster918 on 05 September 2014

Ka-pi96 said:

iceboy151 said:

platformmaster918 said:

it was an anomaly and not the product of a normal gaming market. It had an abnormal selling pattern and sold to a different audience than ANY of the current consoles are aimed at. In other words those people are not part of the gaming market they're just people who happened to buy one game console one time. Hell some of the grandmas might not even be with us anymore

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DanneSandin on 07 September 2014

Great thread!

What's pretty obvious is that the market has shrunk, the casual exodus will have a great effect on the industry. The question is, will the industry fall back to 6th gen numbers, or something between 6th and 7th gen numbers?

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sundin13 on 07 September 2014

You should make graphs...they would represent the data much better

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This was a hilarious read-through. Great job, JayWood.

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Mnementh on 07 September 2014

bubblegamer said:

kljesta64 said:

bubblegamer said:

kljesta64 said:

nothing is going to beat Wii

PS4 will, just like it's PS2 and PS1 brethern did

20mil. first full year wont happen because of japan(they are the only ones having a brain right now) as for ps2,ps1 that is totally off topic.

Nah, Japan is quite tasteless with the same games over and over. PS1 and PS2 aren't off topic as they are Sony consoles just like PS4 is and there is a tradition at work here. As someone on this website you should have noticed this by now.

Japan has always similar shooters and more and more streamlined action-games plus some sport games? I didn't know! (To be clear, it is always a question of taste, what you define to be similar and how deeply you look into the the market, so the claim Japan has always the same games is pretty baseless.) And PS4 will only as successful as PS1 and PS2, if it does appeal to the casuals as these two did. Think about Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero.

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