The flaw in the Wii which makes surpassing the PS2s sales even better.

[theRepublic]

TWRoO said:

HappySqurriel said:

rubido said:

tehsage said:
How many PS2 sales were from repurchases anyway?

 

Considering that the average ps2 user had 2 ps2's, then it's easy to get the number of owners. Just divide by two. :)

 

I don't think that is entirely fair ...

I personally think that we have probably seen about 25% growth in the number of console users every generation since the NES, and the explosion in the number of consoles sold in the Playstation generation was from people owning multiple consoles. Some of these consoles would be people replacing broken systems while others would be from people owning two systems from different manufacturers.

Now, if my estimate of 25% per generation is correct that would mean there was between 60 Million and 80 Million second consoles purchases ... and about 30 to 40 Million (or 25% to 33%) of PS2's were replacement systems.

 

That's insane.... there was a statistic (I think NPD?) which had US multi-console ownership for last generation at about 3-4%, in other words of about 60 million US consoles, there were about 58 million gamers, and about 2 million of them owned more than 1 console.

That seems a fair figure to me, because really very few people own more than 1 console. (per gen) I only know 2 people that have... one of them had a PS1 and N64, but stopped gaming after that (in truth he mainly used the PS1 for music and frogger) and another friend had both an x-box and PS2 last gen, but never had more than 1 console for the other generations.

 

What about the rebuys due to broken PS2s?  That NPD statistic only covers people who bought two or more different consoles.