Question: if SONY decides to skip the next generation, and basically use the PS3 for 2 generations, and ends up outselling the original wii, would you guys consider that a victory?

I'm not saying it is going to happen, or even that I expect it to happen, so please no "lol, that's never gonna happen" comments. All I'm saying is that I'm not sure what everyone's criteria for 'winning' is. In the above scenario, would, you consider it a SONY victory or a Nintendo victory?

At any rate the PS3 could still win this console generation. Sometimes no one know what is going to happen and it is a pretty popular opinion that the Wii will continue to sell as it has but what if for some unknown reason people just stopped buying them, then the PS3 or 360 could easily overtake it once again by a certain point in time.

It doesn't really matter which console finishes first in the long run. It only matters whether each console sales enough units and games to justify a future for that particular line.

That is called a hopeful dream.

It's possible in my lifetime someone will find a way to make me live 100 years longer than anyone else before me and still be healthy till the end... it's possible that for some unknown reason everyone stops buying bread next week.

This website is about sales; past, present and future. The future part comes from analysing the past and present part.... mysterious occurences that make no sense and don't have any significant chance of happening aren't generally considered.

In this instance, yes, the PS3 would be considerd the sales leader to the 6th generation if it were to eventually outsell the Wii.

Hope is good to have but against logic and reason it makes it becomes a pipe dream.  Logic and reason suggest that won't happen so basing a prediction upon it is a losing proposition.

Now the second part of your post is absolutely spot on.

Im trying to avoid that fanboy shit you do. I just said my opinion, but i forgot to say that i think the sales will drop next summer by a big margin. I also think you are an asshole now. Just my opinion. Happy forecasting.

Phasma, do you have any indicators that suggest the sales will drop a lot by next summer? Typically when predicting a change in a trend it requires an influencing factor. What is the influencing factor that will cause significant drop in sales by next summer?

That's an interesting question. I wonder if sony skips the next generation, sells less consoles weekly than wii2 but manages to outsell the wii, would it be considered a victory for the ps3?

I would consider it a HUGE victory if the ps3 outsold the wii and wii2. If it somehow managed to outsell the wii but lose to wii + wii2, I wouldn't consider it a victory for sony, but still for nintendo because they would sell more consoles weekly throughout all of the ps3's lifecycle.

Anyway, you made a hypothetical question which I don't think is going to happen.

Well i think the wii is a fun machine don't get me wrong. But i think people get tired of it in the long run, there are good games to it but not many (more games coming i know). Games looking better and better these days and with the HD tvs increasing i think the people start to lean more to the ps3/360. I think the wii is a phase in the gaming world, it's fun for a while but then it gets old maybe if the wii was more powerful things could be different? It will of course appeal to people with families and someone you know, has one to play for parties etc. At some point the sales will go down, i think next year we could see a big drop, or after 5 years, you never know. Just my 2 cents.

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Sry, im a little tired so the writing on my post isn't very well written and compiled. Try to make something out of it, if you can.