Shigeru Miyamoto: The man behind the Nintendo Wii

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RolStoppable said:

obieslut said:
Sony expanded the gaming audience and now its nintendo's turn to do some expansion of the gaming, how big that expansion will be is yet unknown.

I wonder who is going to be the next company to expand the market even further

Sony didn't expand the market by that much. In Japan and America the growth in hardware sales over previous generations can pretty much entirely attributed to population growth. The peak years of the NES and PS2 in the USA are pretty similar according to TheSource.

Most of Sony's expansion is due to releasing the consoles (PS1 and PS2) in markets that didn't officially have videogames before or only in low quantities because of the lacking distribution networks of Nintendo and Sega in Europe in the late '80s and early '90s. If you compare overall NES sales with overall PS1/PS2 sales, you'll notice that most of the growth comes from Europe/Others.

 

Oh?  Is that what happened?  I've always wondered (never examined) how Sony's first console, against Nintendo no less, got 100 million.  Thank you for clearing up that sickening mystery.