With Wii's birthday coming up a look at its first year

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llewdebkram said:

MontanaHatchet said:
The theory that the PS2 only sold well because people were buying replacements, is well, a bit retarded to be honest.

Since the 360 has a 33% failure rate, I'm going to assume that at least 1/4 of the 360's sales were people buying it again.

I'm not saying it sold well because of replacements but I am saying that's the reason the numbers are as high as they are.

For example our original, still functional Gamecube has just been sold to my son's friend but in the same period 4 PS2s have been and gone.

And can you explain why sales for the best selling games on PS2 are so low with such a high number of PS2 consoles sold?

 

Lots of casual gamers.

The PS1 had 20 million less userbase yet it's highest selling game moved 4.5 million less units than the PS2's highest selling. And the PS1 was a relatively reliable system.