Ail on 07 October 2009
| bdbdbd said: @Ail: Umh. Without a doubt Wii, 360 and PS3 will surpass last gen, since Wiis purpose is to drive growth and 360 failures cause rebuys and due to difference in the consoles, Wii+360/PS3 households inflate the number. PS2 had high failure rate that turns into rebuys and Dreamcast died at early stage, so that inflates the number by people who bought some other console. What you should be looking at is household penetration and population growth. Also, NA is only one market. Actually it's the only western market with expected population growth. |
The huge majority of the failure are covered by warranties and are not counted as rebuys( or listed in NPD or VGCHartz)...
Microsoft didn't set aside 1 billion$ for that problem to spend it on Bill Gates retirement...
NA is the biggest single market, , saying it's only one is like saying we should ignore Wall Mart for sales....
PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !
PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !
