| Oyvoyvoyv said: That graph really isn't fair. Ps2 was in Japan only for a while, while they added up more stock. A more fair comparison, would be Ps2 in the same time of the year and out as Wii. Wii sales - week ending 25th November 06 to end of Q2 07: 8.89M Ps2 sales - week ending 28 October 00 to end of Q2 01: 7.73M
So considering Ps2 has 1 month more above, you can say Wii is selling 20% faster for the first 8 months.
Over the next year, Ps2 sold 18.2M Wii sold 20.5M
So the Wii is steadily selling ~ 10% more than Ps2 was in the same time frame (not ~ 30% as the graph in the OP suggests).
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It's quite fair. Although PS2 wasn't selling worldwide for many months, the reason was a lack of stock(which you do point out). Therefore, more PS2s could not have been sold during the period.
However, because of those shortages it wouldn't be right to think that the Wii will continue to outperform the PS2 by ~30%. Heck, that'd be about as crazzy as thinking the PS3 will sell the same amount as PS2 in "similar" years.
