Kagey K
Banned
Looking at all the media pieces before this gen started many of them had the same prediction, the console market would shrink or contract this gen and many people balked it off as fear mongering.
Now that we are closing out this gen, we can see actual sales numbers show that in hardware it might be the case.
Last gen we had Wii 120m + PS3 80m plus 360 80m. Totaling 280m consoles.
This gen with the most optimistic numbers (at this time) we have PS4 with 100m, XB1 with 50m and Switch with 30m. Making 180m
This leaves a 100m deficit in just consoles sold.
Is gaming going to grow further going forward or can we expect these kind of losses being the norm going forward?
Thankfully software sales have never been higher to offset these losses, but what can companies do to try to offset the changes in business going forward?
Now that we are closing out this gen, we can see actual sales numbers show that in hardware it might be the case.
Last gen we had Wii 120m + PS3 80m plus 360 80m. Totaling 280m consoles.
This gen with the most optimistic numbers (at this time) we have PS4 with 100m, XB1 with 50m and Switch with 30m. Making 180m
This leaves a 100m deficit in just consoles sold.
Is gaming going to grow further going forward or can we expect these kind of losses being the norm going forward?
Thankfully software sales have never been higher to offset these losses, but what can companies do to try to offset the changes in business going forward?
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