14 DAY TRIAL // Strauss Zelnick, the chief executive officer of Take Two, says that he expects to see sales of the recently launched Xbox One from Microsoft and PlayStation 4 from Sony to pass those of their current-gen precursors in a five-year period.
He is quoted by GamesIndustry.biz as telling the Credit Suisse 2013 Technology Conference that anecdotal evidence shows that new hardware is adopted at a faster pace by gamers at the moment.
Zelnick adds, “But if we had a big market meltdown, for example, a repeat of ’08 and ’09 in three years, or two years, or two minutes, that would influence it. But if this economy stays on this track, yeah, I feel good about it.”
Sony has just reported that the PlayStation 4 has managed to hit 2.1 million in global sales since it launched, while Microsoft has not offered similar data for its own Xbox One.