gcube2000 said:
AnthonyW86 said:
gcube2000 said:
Wii fell behind PS2 by having terrible legs.
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The first PS2 FY is only a month of sales in Japan, so it makes it look a bit disorted. PS2's sceond FY includes 4-5 months of sales in the rest of the world, just like Wii's first FY. And when you match FY sales after worldwide release a funny thing happens:
1st FY PS2- (9.20) 10.61 Wii- (5.84) 5.84
2nd FY PS2- (18.07) 28.68 Wii- (18.61) 24.45
3rd FY PS2- (22.52) 51.20 Wii- (25.54) 50.39
4th FY PS2- (20.10) 71.30 Wii- (20.54) 70.93
5th FY PS2- (16.17) 87.47 Wii- (15.08) 86.01
6th FY PS2- (16.22) 103.69 Wii- (9.84) 95.85
7th FY PS2- (14.20) 117.89 Wii- (3.99) 99.84
You can still clearly see that Wii sold faster in a certain period, and if we factor in PS2's half year head start in Japan the Wii did get in front at some point. But it actually wasn't ever by more than a few million.(if you can find some proper Japan sales numbers for 2000 you could probably calculate by how much exactly).
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Wii sold faster in the early years. Thus it has terrible legs by dropping around 5 million every Fiscal Year since the 4th. PS2 olnly dropped 1 or 2 million in its last few fiscal years.
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But if you look at the adjusted chart you can see that the difference wasn't very big, in fact the Wii only outsold PS2 by a big margin in it's third year. The first two were pretty evenly matched.
It just shows that early numbers don't tell the whole story. PS4 for example is still ahead of the Wii in shipped numbers, but i don't think anyone is expecting it to stay ahead of the Wii(not the whole gen atleast).
