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[QUOTE="Mario1331"]
well thats fine IF the gen doesnt really end but the places of whoever was in 1st 2nd and 3rd should end
Mario1331
I don't see why.The generations are entirely independent of each other, and a new one doesn't necessitate the old one dying off.
Here's a hypothetical:
Nintendo release a WiiU in 2012, it sells 10 million its first year, 5 million in 2013, for a total of 15 million, by the end of 2013.
Microsoft release a 720 a year later, it sells 10 million its first year (2013), 10 million the next (2014), for a total of 20 million and keeps on selling.
Sony release a PS4 in 2014, it sells 15 million its first year and keeps on selling.
The WiiU2 is released in 2014. The WiiU is the best selling console of the eigth generation?
It doesn't make any sense.
that will never happen and thats extremely hypothetical when that does happen you will have anarguement but once a new gen start the old won places should as well its just going to create more confusion and loopholes on here
I don't think its really done that way... When people talk about the PS2 dominating last gen, they cite the 150+ million sold, not the ~100 million or so it had in 2005. In past gens, the differences between first-second-third were pretty big... and didn't change after the next gen started. So its not really that the generation was called as soon as the next started, it's just that the places were pretty much cemented. In this gen, say WiiU came out right now, and we said "Yep, that's it. Wii > 360 > PS3. Final results in." And then PS3 goes on to sell 12-15 million a year for three more years, and then another couple million a year after the PS4 releases, 360 sells another 10-12 million for a year or two before completely jumping over to the "Loop", and Wii sits dead in the water after the WiiU comes out... Why would we still say Wii > 360 > PS3, if it ends up PS3 > Wii > 360? Down the road, people wanting to know which one "won" will look up which sold more, and go by total lifetime sales, not sales up to the date the first system of the next gen came out.
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