Analyst: PS4 will be number one system of generation, but won't beat PS2
DFC's report concludes that PS4 will be the best-selling system of this new generation. However, even if Sony manages to win this new generation, it's unlikely to match sales of PS2 or Wii, the report adds.
With PS4 selling 2.1 million consoles since launch, it's officially the "world's biggest console launch," according to analysts at DFC Intelligence. The next biggest launch is Xbox One, which managed to sell 2 million consoles in the same time frame.
Of course, Sony's eager to toot its horn, sending us highlights from DFC's report, which concludes that PS4 will be the best-selling system of this new generation. However, even if Sony manages to win this new generation, it's unlikely to match sales of PS2 or Wii, the report adds.
"The initial success of the PlayStation 4 bodes well for its future," DFC says. "The PlayStation 2 and Wii went on to be the best selling console systems ever. DFC Intelligence does not believe that the PlayStation 4 will surpass those systems but reiterates its forecast that the PS4 will be the number one system of this generation." Although PS4 may not reach the heights that PS2 did, DFC says that it "could" outsell PS3.
Ironically, although Microsoft has positioned Xbox One as the "all-in-one" device, DFC says that its appeal "is limited more to a core demographic." Unsurprisingly, Titanfall is expected to spur sales of Microsoft's console.
Nintendo doesn't get too much of a shake in DFC's report, with the firm expecting the system to be "mainly a system for Nintendo first-party software," with sales expected to be "only about a quarter of the Wii."
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DFC's report concludes that PS4 will be the best-selling system of this new generation. However, even if Sony manages to win this new generation, it's unlikely to match sales of PS2 or Wii, the report adds.-
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Agreed. Not that it matters to me, but we have absolutely no idea what kind of games that we could be looking forward to on PS4 in the future. The price for PS4 won't be $399 even 5 years from now. And you never know, the Japanese market could make a resurgence in the West, which would strongly turn things in Sony's favour, as Microsoft has pretty much conceded Japan to Sony and Nintendo. Just seems a bit premature to start predicting how popular PS4 will be when it's just gotten out of the starting gate.
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look at these ps2 sales
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How did they come up with the notion that the Xbox One will be more for the hardcore crowd? Sony has been pushing the PS4 as a hardcore gaming machine from the get go while Microsoft has had to defend itself many times over when asked if they forgot about the hardcore crowd in their quest to dominate the living room.
What did these same analysts say about the PS3? In 2006, if you told me that the PS3 would go on to sell over 70 million consoles, I would laugh in you face because we could barely move the ones we had in stock back then. And based on how hard it was to keep the 360 in stock back then, I would've guessed that it would go on to sell over 100 million units, but it's just barely leading the PS3 as it is.