Microsoft confirmed to be totally mental, predicts over a billion next-gen consoles sold.
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Hey, everyone in this thread, the author of the article made an update.
[quote]just to clarify, he's talking about all next gen consoles combined here[/quote]
I'm probably going to pick up about a million consoles myself, most of my friends are too so who knows???
the Xbox one has the entire entertainment (DVD, Blu-ray) and tv under its belt. it also has half of the console market, they could easily sell more than they ever sold before
[QUOTE=GoldenGnome;40767114]one seventh of the earth owning an xbox one?
not likely.[/QUOTE]
that's what they said about[ insert anything that sold/ reached a billion people/ units]
[QUOTE=Lambadvanced;40767373]the Xbox one has the entire entertainment (DVD, Blu-ray) and tv under its belt. it also has half of the console market, they could easily sell more than they ever sold before[/QUOTE]
Sounds like a PS3 poser.
[QUOTE=trotskygrad;40766422]so one out of 7 people in the world will have an gaming console?????[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Unisath;40766361]The threads on /v/ about this article alone are absolutely hilarious. Although, someone predicted that they're advertising it as a media box rather than a gaming console to get past China's restrictions on video game consoles (thus opening up a huge market of middle class workers who want entertainment).[/QUOTE]
Consoles becoming media boxes is actually is exactly what is happening. Its easy as fuck for Microsoft or Sony to expand the console to do things not specifically related to gaming and it opens the market a bit more to people who aren't gamers.
The quote implies next-gen consoles as a whole, not just the xbox, which is quite possible, seeing as they are moving from purely gaming systems to more a home entertainment system.
Did anyone even read the article?
[QUOTE=Sir Colton;40767698]Did anyone even read the article?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, and every word he said makes no fucking sense.
I don't think much people not from the US will buy it since much of their "entertaintment' services will (very likely) only work in the US.
Lmao only about 1.5 billion people on earth even own a TV and they expect the next generation of consoles to have a 66% adoption rate of the entire population of TV owners for what's essentially an expensive peripheral box for your TV. An expnesive peripherial box that's likely only to appeal and apply to middle/upper class citizens, and has all the same features (sans playing games) of their own smart TV's, iPads/phones/etc which all connect to the TV anyways.
This is the type of thinking that will crash the console industry and why games like Resident Evil can sell 5 million copies and yet be considered financial failures
Where the hell are the bans for not reading the OP, it's like a sentence long and says he's talking about the PS4 and X1 combined. Hell the title is "next-gen consoles", not "xboxes".
It's a pretty high number, but I can actually a more reasonable amount (half a billion?) happening because of the media capabilities and the rumored cheaper X1 model.
[QUOTE=Durrsly;40766362]So we will produce 5 billion Halo 5s!
The landfill is waiting.[/QUOTE]
Remember that guy who had to pay lots of money to get rid of thousands of VHS tapes that people dumped on his property? Xbox shit is going to be the same way
[QUOTE=Durrsly;40766362]So we will produce 5 billion Halo 5s!
The landfill is waiting.[/QUOTE]
"And [Halo 5] was so bad, there are rumours that Steve Ballmer himself buried all of the remaining copies in a secluded location near Redmond, WA. This is claimed to have prompted the Second Great Video Game Crash of 2014."
[I]-Abridged History of Video Games, 2020[/I]
Come on lets help them with that desert hole.
[QUOTE=Valnar;40767211]Hey, everyone in this thread, the author of the article made an update.[/QUOTE]
We already knew that, though... He was pretty clear.
[QUOTE=Lambadvanced;40767373]the Xbox one has the entire entertainment (DVD, Blu-ray) and tv under its belt. it also has half of the console market, they could easily sell more than they ever sold before[/QUOTE]
Something my PS3 and my computer have been doing for like forever. And I don't have to pay 60 bucks a year to access netflix on my devices after my initial netflix payment.
The only thing that could possibly be deemed new is the nextboxes ability to control television, [url=http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-live-tv-available-in-us-only-at-launch-requires-separate-device/]buuuut it requires you to already own a receiver to do live TV on nextbox.[/url] So it's pretty much just an overhyped remote control.
[editline]24th May 2013[/editline]
(Though I guess the PS3 was released later, but at least I could do netflix for free on it)
Someone needs to leave some shovels outside of microsoft HQ.
There's no way they'd ever ship 1 billion consoles. It's obviously just 'all news is good news' etc.
It's like a train crash. Horrible to watch but then again you can't really look away when it's happening.
Isnt the world population at 7 billion?
Good luck
hey guys remember when a fuckton of people started a L4D2 boycott group and then on launch day 98% of them were playing L4D2
[QUOTE=0FucksGiven;40783285]hey guys remember when a fuckton of people started a L4D2 boycott group and then on launch day 98% of them were playing L4D2[/QUOTE]
Just like when sony removed otheros and everyone said they would never buy another sony product again.
They are the same people saying ps4 for life.
the more statements they make the more i think microsoft is becoming the north korea of software
in terms of craziness, at least
And behold, on the second page and still almost nobody actually read the article.
holy lol the previous gen of consoles didn't even sell half a billion combined
[QUOTE=Valnar;40783326]And behold, on the second page and still almost nobody actually read the article.[/QUOTE]
If the WiiU is included, then to get to 1 billion consoles sold, all 3 consoles will have to beat the PS2's record by double.
Which is still fucking insanely optimistic.
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