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Groucho on 13 January 2009
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Oyvoyvoyv said:
Groucho said:

The PS2's numbers are shockingly high since the release of the XBox360. If VGC has avoided putting the PS2 up there due to its dominance of the last generation, put up its numbers since the "beginning" of the current generation (X360 release), and lets watch how it continues to compare.

It IS still in production, and it IS still a serious competitor, no matter when it was first manufactured.  Excluding it moves the site away from actual market analysis, and more toward fanboy wars.  Yes, it is "dying", but not so much that it can be discounted from competition, especially in terms of software.

 

 How would you count the market share then?

Ps2 =  130M = 58%

Wii = 46M = 20.5%

X360 = 28M = 12.5%

Ps3 = 20M = 9%

 

And that is what is displayed on the front page. Overall market share.

It has no place there.

Only use PS2 units sold since the X360's inception, or even the Wii's inception (i.e. since newer consoles/competition were available) -- that'd certainly provide less of a skew than ignoring it altogether.