lol
Should have been the first post.
Should have been the first post.
Return of the king.
Impossible. But possible.lol impossible, lets see if Sony can pull it off.
Return of the king.
More PS2s and Wiis were made in the same time frame.
To be honest, a lot of people scuffed at the 5 million projection by Sony before launch. I'll just sit back and watch.
that's three years bro.I'm sorry IDC but that's impossible.
In 2 years? try 4.
November 2013 - December 2016 = 38 months.
Last gen consoles sales during their first 38 months:
Nintendo Wii - 67.45 million
PlayStation 3 - 33.50 million
Xbox 360 - 28.60 million
Microsoft hasn't been faring quite as well, but IDC believes Xbox One will make a serious comeback, particularly in North America where it's forecasted to take the lead. This will be spurred on by unbundling Kinect, IDC said.
Seems high. Like way too high.
I'd expect closer to 30 million by end of 2016. This generation is not going to sell gangbusters, and by 2016 we'll probably just then stop seeing multiplatform titles for 360/PS3.
Pretty much agreed. It would take a LOT more than just dropping the Kinect for XBO to take the lead in the U.S, and the global situation doesn't look favorable for them at all. They'll be a solid second in all the markets they're in (besides Japan) but that's it.Those numbers look high for PS4, and I don't see Xbox taking the lead in the US. Even with price parity, I think Sony just has the brand, the performance and the momentum to keep ahead. Basically everything they didn't have last gen.
Axing Kinect and dropping the price will probably act a lot more like the PS3's soft relaunch than anything else. Get sales back up, make the system more lively, but ultimately trapped in the other's shadow.So many people think Kinect is like the sole remaining albatross of Xbox One, that the dam is just waiting to break otherwise in North America. That's all that's between it and the lead, that Kinect-driven price!
Don't get me wrong, I hope they do it and think it's the right way to go (especially since they've done virtually nothing to justify its inclusion), but... It's going to be a fascinating generation when people realize that's not the only issue.
Axing Kinect and dropping the price will probably act a lot more like the PS3's soft relaunch than anything else. Get sales back up, make the system more lively, but ultimately trapped in the other's shadow.
I'm surprised IDC isn't a banned source, seeing as how they've been wrong repeatedly (remember when they claimed the PS3 had outsold the 360, except we found out later that it hadn't, and didn't do so for, what, like, another year, and when it did, it was just barely that?).
It's the only time I think I've ever seen a numbers firm actually act like what I'd consider fanboyish.
Maybe if Japan wanted to buy some PS4...
PS4 had sold 5 million by the end of 2013. 51 - 5 = 46.
So to hit 51 million mark by the end of 2016, PS4 would need to sell ~1.2-1.3 (46/36) million a month.
PS4 is averaging 1 million a month right now. Either the Japanese sells will have to pick up considerably, or China (if and once PS4 releases there) is going to have to make up those sells.
This. Right now there ain't shit for me. Destiny exclusive content almost has me, but I need more games. And for me Indy doesn't count.
To be honest, a lot of people scuffed at the 5 million projection by Sony before launch. I'll just sit back and watch.
Not saying it won't happen, but never forget:
Predictions at the start of a generation generally end up inaccurate. The PS4 is off to a brilliant start, but this industry has proven more than once to be unpredictable.
Return of the king.
Not saying it won't happen, but never forget:
Predictions at the start of a generation generally end up inaccurate. The PS4 is off to a brilliant start, but this industry has proven more than once to be unpredictable.
Return of the king.
It's doing very well for its launch year. Unfortunately, the PS4 is doing much better, and have the early market share. Plus, MS couldn't win March in the US with the much-hyped Titanfall, with the PS4 outselling it. What will it take?
Sony can only do that if they drop the PS4 price to $350.
Didn't the X1 ship less this quarter than the X360 did back in the day (and that was supplied constrained). I don't quite understand how that indicates that it's doing very well
I just realized that that gif was based entirely (as far as public knows), to the smallest digits shown, on gen 6.
I feel like Microsoft has "picked up the ball" over the last couple of months.
I can't underestimate consumer ignorance/apathy, and I can see people who just prefer those listed games over what Playstation has not being performance conscious enough to care that it's the notably weaker system, or possibly even blowing off the value of Plus over Gold.The problem is always value proposition. They've tethered themselves to a tv feature than most people have products that adequately cover everything they ever want to do with that, in a business that is increasingly hostile to even the most entrenched entity within that field, and in doing that they made their system prohibitively expensive with a low tech proposition to boot. So even if they price match minus Kinect, for example, people are still going to sell: "well hell, they're both the same, but one is way more popular and all my friends are on there now, and one has the best versions of all multiplatform games, and Sony demonstrated they supported their system late into its life, and PS+ is an astonishing value proposition if I have to pay for online..."
People register simple things in their heads, but they do compare, and the comparison does not seem favorable unless the only games you happen to care about are Forza, Fable, Gears and Halo.
Would be amazing if it was like that.=pReturn of the king.