MikeB's past predictions

[MikeB]

@ dtewi

Why would they release a WiiHD? It makes no sense from a financial nor sales perspective.

Not right now, but soon. I think perspectives on this will change within a year or two. Neither do I think Sony should discontinue the PS2 too soon, but within a year or two I think it probably will be a good idea. HDTV is making significant progress into people's homes.

In the past I stated here on VGChartz the PS2 still had sales potential (this at a time when VGChartz was spelling its doom for the short term a few years ago). Globally speaking the PS2 still performs pretty well (for example it outsold PS3 and XBox 360 last quarter).

That since its technology is older it shouldn't count?

I didn't say that. And never did I with regard to the PS2 neither.

The Wii and PS2 are certainly part of this generation with regard to sales and global usage. Then you have the technology generation perspective, like we had the 8-bit vs 16-bit era generation. This is seperate, the c64 for example did outsell the Atari ST when both were available on the market, but the ST was a 16-bit computer and the redesigned c64 was part of an older technology generation.