Consoles Are A Dying Market

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2 points·Golddisk··4 comments

This is simply false the PS4 is at 6 million consoles sold in under 4 months[1]. While the PS3 had sold less than that in 7 months[2]. While I'm not going to double check all the numbers, the PS4 is supposed to be the fastest selling console to date.

And it's just entirely bullshit to try to compare total consoles of all types sold in a particular months, considering so many variables.

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/177788-ps4-hits-6-million-...

[2] http://www.videogamer.com/news/worldwide_ps3_sales_only_4_28...

The PS4 might have strong sales but the generation has a whole isn't faring so well. Don't miss the forest for the trees (or tree) here... January is actually generally a weak month for console sales while the strongest is December, so it is true that one month probably isn't the best way to compare them.

I would say the best period to really see if any of this is true or not is probably at the 6 months mark.

Hey Golddisk, thanks for sharing our content!

Arelius - I looked into the numbers and it appears you might actually be correct. This was a shared information pool between a couple of news sites and it looks like we all may have reported incorrectly. I would have to look deeper but I'm not not sure which way the facts point right now.

If anything, it might be that overall, this generation's sales is at least matching last gen.

We looked into it and your comment is true Arelius... Check out our new post correcting our old one:

http://thesurge.net/contrary-to-our-recent-post-it-appears-c...

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