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alternine on 14 July 2015

The PS3's comeback. After all the fails they roared back with a vengeance to match the Xbox.



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Aerys on 15 July 2015

Wii U failure, even more when i understood 2 years ago that it would never outsell Vita, contrary to what most believers thought



Predictions for end of 2014 HW sales:

 PS4: 17m   XB1: 10m    WiiU: 10m   Vita: 10m

 

Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 15 July 2015

How successful the wii/ds was even after so many said they would flop



                  

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outlawauron on 15 July 2015
Captain_Yuri said:
How successful the wii/ds was even after so many said they would flop

Who said the DS was going to flop?



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Aerys on 15 July 2015

Oh and PS4 being ahead of X1 was also a big surprise in America



Predictions for end of 2014 HW sales:

 PS4: 17m   XB1: 10m    WiiU: 10m   Vita: 10m

 

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 15 July 2015
outlawauron said:
Captain_Yuri said:
How successful the wii/ds was even after so many said they would flop

Who said the DS was going to flop?

Many did. I remember many articles back then saying how epic the psp was going to be and how it was going to out sell the DS by quite a bit due to the DS being so heavily underpowered and that the two screens didn't make any sense and etc



                  

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AlfredoTurkey on 15 July 2015

The most surprising thing sales figures wise has to be the Wii. Who the HELL would have thought that it would go on to become what it became? I don't think anyone saw it coming at all.

Runner up is probably the Genesis beating the SNES in the US... and for that fact, most of that generation as a whole. Before that, Nintendo was unstoppable.



Sticky on 15 July 2015

Tomb Raider reboot

8.5 million copies?

Probably even more by now?

I was for sure that TR was a dead relic of the ps2 era



outlawauron on 15 July 2015
Captain_Yuri said:
outlawauron said:
Captain_Yuri said:
How successful the wii/ds was even after so many said they would flop

Who said the DS was going to flop?

Many did. I remember many articles back then saying how epic the psp was going to be and how it was going to out sell the DS by quite a bit due to the DS being so heavily underpowered and that the two screens didn't make any sense and etc

PSP vs DS was real in 2004 and 2005 and there was actual competition between the two devices. There were a lot of question marks, but those largely went away with the DSlite.



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bananaking21 on 15 July 2015

well when i first came to the site and similar sites and forums that talked about sales. i was very surprised to see that Pokemon still sold in the millions. that game died out where i live like 10 years ago. and i was surprised that it was still running till this day and selling millions.