It’s gonna be a Sony-Nintendo tie, says former Sony boss on console race
A lot of predictions have been thrown our way as to how this leg of the console race will end. But this one isn’t from industry analysts, this time. Rather, it’s from one that was formerly in the know as a Sony top executive. For him, we’ll know who wins the race by 2011, and it’s gonna be a tie.
2011. This is the predicted deadline by former SCEE president Chris Deering. Deadline for what? Why, when we’ll know who comes out as the winner for this next-gen’s console race, that’s what. Although, his forecast does not provide for a clear winner, as some may have hoped.
According to the former Sony exec, both Sony and Nintendo will emerge as tied winners. If one would look at the current NPD numbers, it’s fairly obvious that Nintendo is bringing home truckloads of bacon with its Wii and DS sales consistently settling on the top of the charts. How is Sony to catch up?
Well, Deering is of the opinion that the combined sales of the PlayStation consoles, particularly PS3, PS2 and PSP, will add up to around 240 million units by 2011. Meanwhile, Nintendo would have come up with the same number, only, they’d have pulled it off with only the Wii and the DS. Where’s Microsoft‘s Xbox 360 in all this? He says they’ll have a base of 40 million units.
Bold predictions, we say. And it’s only a couple of years from now so it’s not really that long before his forecast is proved or not. But for now, facts and numbers state what’s clear: Nintendo, the alleged underdog in this leg of the console race, is certainly leading the pack, if it’s numbers you’re looking at. And in this race, really, it’s not the graphics or console power that counts, it’s the statistics.
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Via Wii Fanboy