Millions Sellers: Wii (41) vs Gamecube (39)!

[johnsobas]

Words Of Wisdom said:

johnsobas said:

Words Of Wisdom said:
More million sellers are found on the most successful console in one generation than arguably the least successful console of the previous generation?

Shocking.

Yea but even though there is a big difference in userbase the length of ownership is quite low.  Only 14 months ago the wii had a 13 million userbase, that's less than 1/3 of what it is now.

14 months is over a quarter of the generally accepted console lifetime (4 years).  Saying "Only 14 months ago" makes it sound like that's not a long period of time when in reality that's a very long timespan.  The Wii's sales are plenty impressive by themselves so don't feel the need to play semantic games to make it sound more amazing.

As for length of ownership, when does a console owner typically acquire the most games for that console?  I'd go with the first few months after purchase followed closely by holidays.  How about you?

You're comparing a console that is long dead vs a one that is growing at an incredible rate.  People pick up games over the whole lifespan not just when they buy it.  Half of the wii userbase has had their system for less 7 months. 

There's really nothing more to explain, the ps3 has almost the same userbase now as GC, but it only has 24 million sellers to GC's 39.  The difference is in the length of ownership.