Wii at $250 on 3rd year is ahead of PS2($120) by >19 MILLION. =)

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amp316 on 29 May 2009

But the Wii will start slowing down in sales because of the economy... and because certain people say so.

@ the prof At the point of time in it's history. The PS3 had a price cut to $150 or $180 by now. This is being argued about currently.

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theprof00 on 29 May 2009

North America US$299.99 (October 26, 2000, Launch Price)
US$199.99 (May 14, 2002)
US$179.99 (May 13, 2003)
US$149.99 (May 11, 2004)
Japan JP¥39,800 (March 2000, Launch Price)
JP¥35,000 (June 29, 2001)
JP¥29,800 (November 29, 2001)
JP¥25,000 (2002) JP¥19,800 (November 1 ...

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I thought the ps2 was under tracked by like 10 million units..

Nope... and even if it was those 10 million wouldn't all be clumped into te timeframe set by the OP (first 2.5 years of the console life)

VGChartz is pretty much spot on for the PS2 in the Americas, it is 50k/1million overtracked in Japan (going by Famitsu and Media Create) and in the 5 major countries of Europe it is also slightly overtracked (~1 million)

It is possible it is undertracked in the other PAL regions, but not by 12 million that's for sure (2 million to negate Jp/Eu overtracking)

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theprof00 said:
North America US$299.99 (October 26, 2000, Launch Price)
US$199.99 (May 14, 2002)
US$179.99 (May 13, 2003)
US$149.99 (May 11, 2004)
Japan JP¥39,800 (March 2000, Launch Price)
JP¥35,000 (June 29, 2001)
JP¥29,800 (November 29, 2001)
JP¥25,000 (2002) JP¥19,800 (November 1 ...

Ah... thanks. I was looking for that earlier. It's not on Wiki (unless you found that on Wiki, in which case I didn't look properly)

So at this point in it's life the PS2 had just recieved a price cut to $179.99 from $199.99

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PS2? Who cares. I already cried when it outsold SNES, I have no tears left.

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theprof00 on 29 May 2009

Is the point of this thread to say that wii is doing better?

Two different marketing strategies ya know. PS2 made the most profit on games and makes sense to sell as many consoles as possible. Which on top of that increases DVD sales of their movies and brand recognition.

Whereas the guys at nintendo have figured out that they can make the most money by not dropping the price. Nintendo has no similar concerns.

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Max King of the Wild on 29 May 2009

awesome comparing a console with a global release date to a console released in one market for a year.

This actually paints a different picture.

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=Japan&cons2=PS2&reg2=Japan&cons3=&reg3=------&weeks=150

-1.94

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=America&cons2=PS2&reg2=America&cons3=X360&reg3=------&weeks=144

+3.40

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=Total+Other&cons2=PS2&reg2=Total+Other&cons3=X360&reg3=------&weeks=140

+3.5

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L.C.E.C. said:
LOL, by looking at your post history, I can tell that ou've not yet been to (or at least posted in) this thread:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=74256&page=10

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Max King of the Wild said:
awesome comparing a console with a global release date to a console released in one market for a year.

This actually paints a different picture.

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=Japan&cons2=PS2&reg2=Japan&cons3=&reg3=------&weeks=150

-1.94

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=America&cons2=PS2&reg2=America&cons3=X360&reg3=------&weeks=144

+3.40

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=Total+Other&cons2=PS2&reg2=Total+Other&cons3=X360&reg3=------&weeks=140

+3.5

This thread is in response to one made by Crazzyman.... logic went out the window before this thread was even concieved.

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L.C.E.C. on 29 May 2009

theprof00 said:
Is the point of this thread to say that wii is doing better?

Two different marketing strategies ya know. PS2 made the most profit on games and makes sense to sell as many consoles as possible. Which on top of that increases DVD sales of their movies and brand recognition.

Whereas the guys at nintendo have figured out that they can make the most money by not dropping the price. Nintendo has no similar concerns.

Nahhhh, this is just a reply thread... To Crazzyman's thread... with a similar title...

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