PS3 to dominate next-gen console market until 2011?

PS3 is bound to stay as the Alpha male in the next-generation console market — for the next five years at least.

This is according to a recent report released by In-Stat that Sony’s global lead is projected to be lessened, but it’ll stay ahead of the competition. The study points out that despite Microsoft having an early lead, Sony’s marketing move of shipping a disproportional amount of units during the latter phase of a console generation gave it substantial opportunity to catch up.

In-Stat predicts that PS3 will remain strong until 2011, matching the 11-year life of PS1, while Xbox will cease shipping chart within the next year or so. Sony just shipped its second-largest volume of PS2 consoles in 2005 — 20 million, over eight million more than its 2004 total. Banking on that data observation, the firm believes that Sony’s tendency to ship more units as time goes by will keep it strong in the coming years.

While it may be too premature for us to go ala-Nostradamus here, the data is worth a look. But then gain, so are Nostradamus foresights (hey, was he the one who said doomsday  was to take place this year? Or was it last year?).
PS3 is bound to stay as the Alpha male in the next-generation console market — for the next five years at least.

This is according to a recent report released by In-Stat that Sony’s global lead is projected to be lessened, but it’ll stay ahead of the competition. The study points out that despite Microsoft having an early lead, Sony’s marketing move of shipping a disproportional amount of units during the latter phase of a console generation gave it substantial opportunity to catch up.

In-Stat predicts that PS3 will remain strong until 2011, matching the 11-year life of PS1, while Xbox will cease shipping chart within the next year or so. Sony just shipped its second-largest volume of PS2 consoles in 2005 — 20 million, over eight million more than its 2004 total. Banking on that data observation, the firm believes that Sony’s tendency to ship more units as time goes by will keep it strong in the coming years.

While it may be too premature for us to go ala-Nostradamus here, the data is worth a look. But then gain, so are Nostradamus foresights (hey, was he the one who said doomsday  was to take place this year? Or was it last year?).