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Bodhesatva on 11 August 2008

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/sony-and-nintendo-will-tie-in-hardware-race-says-former-scee-boss

Can someone put the whole article up? For some confounded reason, it won't let me copy/paste.


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RAcCoOnErOuS on 11 August 2008

How is that Possible?

"IF" Sony and Nintendo sold 100M each..one of them would sale at least one more than each other, so it wouldn't be a tie right?



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thekitchensink on 11 August 2008

Really? A former Sony executive said that PS3 will magically catch up? ZOMG MEGATON!



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Bodhesatva on 11 August 2008

"Alright, we'll call it a draw."



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obieslut on 11 August 2008

i have come from the future and i have came to tell you that he was wrong.

the ps3 has sole 3X the amount of the Wii



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Kasz216 on 11 August 2008

I'll just say i think there is a lot of danger in thinking HD Growth is going to effect PS3 sales in large ways.



Gilgamesh on 11 August 2008

wait PS2 will sell 90 million? I thought it already sold like 120 million?



appolose on 11 August 2008
Bodhesatva said:

"Alright, we'll call it a draw."

Ha, that's perfect.

That must mean he thinks the Wii's going to hae an 8-year plan.

 



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Garcian Smith on 11 August 2008
Bodhesatva said:

"Alright, we'll call it a draw."

 

Hahaha!! I don't believe I've ever seen a more relevant use of a Monty Python quote. Bravo, Bodhe.



"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."

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Kasz216 on 11 August 2008

Sony and Nintendo will tie in hardware race, says former SCEE boss

Speaking at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival this morning, former SCEE president Chris Deering predicted Sony and Nintendo will tie in the hardware sales stakes by 2011.

The EIF chairman presented figures he arrived at by triangulating Screen Digest and IDG data. He also took into account factors such as the growth of hi-def and the grey gamer market, the emergence of new game engines and increasing ubiquity of wi-fi access. He said the active installed base for hardware is set to rise from 316 million to 500 million over the next three years, with "two big mega-powers" leading the charge.

According to Deering sales of the DS and any future iterations of the hardware will reach 150 million by 2011, while the figure for Wii will be 80 million. He predicted the installed base for PS3 will be 70 million, and said for PS2 it will be 90 million and PSP will be 70 million. In other words, Sony and Nintendo will each have sold 230 million machines.

Deering said he believes the Xbox 360 and any sequels will experience "decent growth", predicting an installed base of 40 million by 2011. He observed this figure is higher than some analysts are projecting, adding, "This is not necessarily because I've got some issues with Xbox 360 in Continental European countries et cetera, but because of the set-top box hi-def phenomenon."

In addition, Deering predicted the number of potential gamers will rise to 2.5 billion worldwide when also taking into account the installed bases for computers and mobile phones.