| NJ5 said: What period does that 53% correspond to? You'd probably get vastly different results depending on whether you used the latest weeks, a few months or a year. |
Very hypothetical: if the current trend reached this week wasn't a spike, but a consolidated growth and were kept long enough... This is quite unlikely, as it'almost sure now that in March or April Sony will cut PS3 price making it sell better than now compared to competitors, but nevertheless what Wii achieved now is quite noticeable, considering it doesn't have the price advantage over XB360 anymore. The fact that even the third, PS3, has good numbers, comparable to last year's same period, makes me think that Wii, other than getting some previous Sony fans, managed to attract a lot of brand new users to gaming market, so that at the end of this gen Wii could have sold more than 100million and XB360+PS3, whichever the ratio between them, too, giving a total for the current gen higher than 200million.
If the current trend weren't kept after Xmas, what we'are seeing now makes one think that thanks to this Xmas sales Wii could reach 50% and keep it, anyway, although it would be a different curve than asymptotic growth.
