Reasonable said:
ironman said:
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?
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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.
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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.
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Yup, it's gotta be utilization rather than sales. In terms of use I'd be surprised is the PS2 wasn't still tops globally, and by a fair margin at that. Of course its being helped by the fact that this gen is so split across three seemingly viable consoles. I'm also not surprised the 360 gets more use that Wii despite install base disadvantage as that fits for utilization, too.
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Out of curiosity, I wonder who would come out on top if the install bases were all equal? If one could shrink the number of Wii, PS2, and 360s to the same # of consoles as the PS3 using a random sampling across the board. Or, one could look at the amount played vs. the # of instal, and find an average...meh, it's late, I should be sleeping.
