The Wii HAD to take the bullet, for all our sakes.

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puffy said:
Montana I'm just giving my personal experience, if you have more evidence either way, I'd be very happy to know. I think when Nintendo says the market is shrinking, with the amount of data they collect, they probably know what they're talking about and this is something I've observed that may prove it.

Could be wrong of course but it's my observation.

I noticed that myself a little bit, many people having more then one PS2 and being a bedroom device and PS1 being the only one in the house and being a living room device and less reason to get everyone their own.  That and the fact that the PS1 slim didn't have the effect of PS2 slim which was many people went out and bought a PS2 slim that already owned a PS2 phat while PS1 slims went unsold at many places.

The other obvious point of last gens "growth" console units sold is there were three major companies with three very different consoles instead of just two which probably increased the number of total console sold since some people would own all three instead of both the previous gen.