Salnax said:
My guess: the PS4 surpasses the Wii U in early 2016, with the Wii U selling 5 million lifetime and the PS4 selling 9 million lifetime. |
I just want to show how likely/unlikely this is.
In order for the PS4 to outsell the Wii U in Japan by say January 2016 it must close a gap of 1,154,105 in Japan (from Feb 1 2015.) That means it must outsell the Wii U by 24,403 on an average week. If you meant some time in the first half of 2016, such as, say, June at the latest. That would imply an average of 15,516 more sales than Wii U on a weekly basis.
Currently the PS4 averages around 21k per week and the Wii U 19.5k per week.
Do you predict Wii U sales in Japan to decline and PS4 sales to increase so much that the gap per week is about 20k on average, whereas now it is about 2k. That would mean that either PS4 sales will have to double and the Wii U remains the same (on average,) Wii U's sales decrease by 50% and the PS4's sales increase by 50% or some combination in between these cases. I'm sure FFXV will increase PS4 sales considerably, but will they increase the sales so much that the PS4's sales double or even become 50% more than last year's?
Final Fantasy XIII sold 1.87 Mil in Japan, and 1.5 MIl in its first year. Let's assume FFXV sells similarly, and let's also say that for every five people who buy FFXV one doesn't have a PS4 already, in anticipation for the game. 1.5 Mil/5 = 300k extra hardware sales. The PS4 sold 992,112 last year. And that is including its launch, but excluding the month of January and half of Febuary. That would be about 30% more PS4's than 2014. That would also mean, only an average of 26.9 k PS4's per week. So in order to sell the 24k more than the Wii U that it needs to outsell it by January, the Wii U needs to average about 2k Japanese sales per week for the rest of 2015.
Sure the PS4 has other games coming, but a lot of their audiences overlap so we have no idea how much of system sellers they will be.
2016 seems way to early for the PS4 to outsell the Wii U, unless it starts selling like 40k/weekly in Japan, on average. That is around what the PS3 was selling in its peak. So if you think the PS4 will outsell the Wii U by early 2016, but won't outsell the PS3 that is kind of a conflicting set of predictions, in my opinion.