Video Game Sales Thread

[Xevross]

Let's stop and be realistic about these numbers. Even 120m for ps4 would be awesome! Would be second best selling system of all time.

However yeah this gen doing worse than 6th would be doom. A sign for a second gaming crash like in the 80s.

Yeah it would be totally awesome. That's my optimistic estimate. Well the core user base (XB+PS) I think will stay about the same. Nintendo just lost all the casuals, which I think is fine.

[Legend]

1st

MO 2 mil
TV game 3 mil
Telstar 1 mil

6 mil total

2nd
2600 30 mil
Intelivizion 3 mil
Coleco 2 mil
5200 1 mil

36 mil total

3rd gen
nes 62 mil
Ms 15 mil
7800 4 mil

81 mil

4th
Snes 49 mil
Turbo 10 mil
Pico 3 mil
Genesis 40 mil
102 mil total

Every single home generation has done better than the last.

[Xevross]

1st

MO 2 mil
TV game 3 mil
Telstar 1 mil

6 mil total

2nd
2600 30 mil
Intelivizion 3 mil
Coleco 2 mil
5200 1 mil

36 mil total

3rd gen
nes 62 mil
Ms 15 mil
7800 4 mil

81 mil

4th
Snes 49 mil
Turbo 10 mil
Pico 3 mil
Genesis 40 mil
102 mil total

Every single home generation has done better than the last.

Yeah and that can't continue, especially with mobiles and tablets now and the Wii doing so well last time. I still don't think this means doom but it certainly isn't great.

[darkknightkryta]

The gaming market crashes when game sales tank.  As it is right now, games have been selling quite well even on a low install base.  

[the-pi-guy]

I don't expect that to continue.  
Wii U wont even sell 20m.
XBO will do good, maybe there's a chance for 90m.  It should still be outselling the 360.  (65m?)
PS4 will continue to sell 2:1 XBO.  
180m.  (130m?)

[Dr. Pezus]

WiiU: 15m (7.5% share)
XB1: 60m (30% share)
PS4: 125m (62.5% share)

This is how it ends.

[Legend]

My bets
Wii U: 15 mil(it's dead)
XBO: 45 mil(healthy but no casuals and us/uk only)
PS4: 175 mil(strong us, incredible europe,  ok japan, row boom)

235 mil total, healthy gen

[darkknightkryta]

I honestly don't know if Xone will reach 30 million to say the truth.  I honestly think the plug will be pulled once MS gets their PC stuff sorted out.

[Dr. Pezus]

I honestly don't know if Xone will reach 30 million to say the truth.  I honestly think the plug will be pulled once MS gets their PC stuff sorted out.

Nah. Steam will still dominate on PC. They won't make enough on PC to ditch the console.

[darkknightkryta]

Nah. Steam will still dominate on PC. They won't make enough on PC to ditch the console.

They're not making enough money on consoles to keep consoles.

[Dr. Pezus]

They're not making enough money on consoles to keep consoles.

They made quite a bit on 360 in its later years. They're probably not losing a lot on XB1. + MS has rivers of money

[Legend]

They made quite a bit on 360 in its later years. They're probably not losing a lot on XB1. + MS has rivers of money

They're selling the thing at a huge loss and have less money coming in from software sales. I'd be pleasently shocked if it wasn't bleeding money.

Microsoft can afford the losses, but they don't want to. Either they think ditching it is shortsighted, or they'll ditch it.

[darkknightkryta]

They made quite a bit on 360 in its later years. They're probably not losing a lot on XB1. + MS has rivers of money

They made money in two quarters for all of the 14 years.  They did it with a relatively large install base and with Live money.  Even then it wasn't a large sum of profits.  Doesn't make up for the 8 billion they lost previously, nor does it change the fact that 2.5 billion dollars of Google money showed up in that division and it had a small profit.  Xbox was eating up most of that google money.   Plus what @Legend said.  

[Dr. Pezus]

They made money in two quarters for all of the 14 years.  They did it with a relatively large install base and with Live money.  Even then it wasn't a large sum of profits.  Doesn't make up for the 8 billion they lost previously, nor does it change the fact that 2.5 billion dollars of Google money showed up in that division and it had a small profit.  Xbox was eating up most of that google money.   Plus what @Legend said.  

what, that's not true. They made money since like 2010 or 2011.

[darkknightkryta]

what, that's not true. They made money since like 2010 or 2011.

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