(Nielsen) the most popular video game console today is ....

[ironman]

Reasonable said:

Mr Khan said:

I still find it hard to believe, especially since, in the same article, they asserted that the 360 sold more software, which has been disproven has it not?

I find it easy to believe.  Just becasue the 360/PS3/Wii are avaialble doesn't mean people instantly shut away their PS2s.

There are supposedly 40M PS2s in US vs 7M PS3 and 16 or so 360s.  Pretty easy to see how they'd still get playtime.  I'm in UK but my kids will still pull out the PS2 even though we have a Wii and a PS3 (and the PS3 in BC too) but that would fairly count as playtime for PS2.

When you consider based on numbers there must be plenty of US households with a PS2  but no next gen consoles, and others like me must have PS2s knocking around that still get playtime on favourite games, it's not to hard to see this being plausible.

 

I concure with that assesment. I just set up my xbox two weeks ago and have been playing it off and on. And it seems to me that the study is referancing the  most played console, not the highest selling.