I don't think so. Wii grabbed an entirely new audience for the most part. I reckon Wii's install base is lodskool Nintendo fans (~25 million), blue bcean one generation wonders (~65 million), PS2 owners (~10 million) Xbox owners (~2 million). PS360 more or less shared the PS2box user base equally, with that 12 million who went to Wii going back to PS360 late in the generation, and some of the blue ocean going to 360 when Kinect because the new casual craze, in the USA.

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Yeah, you're ignoring a little something here: the PS2.

The Wii had sold 80% of its lifetime numbers at the end of 2010 (calendar year not fiscal) with its successor still 2 years of, the PS1 had shipped just over 70% of its lifetime numbers at the end of FY 99 when the PS2 was already out in Japan. The PS1 continued to sell 30 million more units with the PS2 already on the market, the Wii only managed to sell 20mil (not even 4mil since the launch of the Wii U) more even though the Wii U didn't come out for 2 more years.

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Their sales curves are almost identical.  Wii sold slightly quicker and peaked in year 3 instead of year 4.  But Wii's year 4 was the same as PS1's.  Year 5 was similar at 18 mil vs 15 mil.  Year 6 saw Wii sell 10 vs PS1's 9. Year 7 is similar.  It isn't until year 8 that PS1 gets much of an edge, and it lasts for about a year before it too dies.  So Wii and PS1 have almost the same sales curve with Wii having a bigger year 2 and 3 while PS1 maintained relevance for about 1 more year.

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Good job sidetracking.  So you agree that the PS1 and Wii have extremely similar sales lives?  The sales of Wii U and PS2 have nothing to do with it.  Further, as I've said in this thread, the successor to Wii from the mass-market perspective was the PS360.  Most consumers don't care about the brand.  They bought a Wii, then they bought a PS360 once they became cheaper and they had an HDTV making the systems worthwhile.  PS360 post-2010 has more practical relevance to Wii in the way that PS2 did to PS1 than Wii U ever had.

You're getting very specific with numbers despite having nothing to base it on.  There certainly were some blue ocean people who picked up Wii's, but the ridiculously high sales of games like MKWii, NSMBWii and other classic style games - along with the major hype in the gaming community that existed during Wii's launch (remember the long lines at e3 2006?) and the slow early sales of PS360 tells me that the bulk of Wii's success came from the "mass market" portion of the gaming community.  People that grew up with NES or SNES but moved on to PS2's decided to give the more adult, sleek and high-tech looking Wii a try after skipping the purple gamecube.  Nostalgia was big in pushing Wii, and Nintendo was ahead of the curve with online service and the Virtual Console was a big selling point for these displaced older Nintendo fans.  But once homes got HDTV's and cool titles from 3rd parties (like COD and GTA) were only available on PS360, those same consumers began to pick up a new, more powerful console.  Those same consumers were also slow to look at Wii U as a worthwile update to their PS360.

This is what I've observed en masse in my part of Canada and it makes perfect sense.  Those that say the bulk of Wii owners were nursing home folks who bought it for Wii Sports have nothing to support this.  Wii's attach rate was similar to other systems, with average consumers buying over 9 games while PS2, PS3 and 360 owners buy just over 10 games.  To me this suggests the portion of grandma's who bought Wii for Wii bowling was about 10%.