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alephnull on 28 December 2009
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Squilliam said:
alephnull said:
Squilliam said:
I believe they have over 50% of the market hardware revenue if I recall correctly.

How is that possible when they have about 50% market share by unit sales and those units go for about half the price of a ps3/360?

 


 

Squilliam said:

If you're talking everything then the DS is the answer.

Well, you can't really include the DS because 1) MS doesn't sell a handheld and 2) I don't think Sony sells the PSP under cost.

Squilliam said:

If you're talking about 'just home consoles' then it really depends whether you include hardware accessories or just the units themselves because they sell a lot of physical hardware between Wiimotes, motion + and balance boards to go with their Wiis. To include it would skew the results towards the Wii and to exclude it would skew the results towards the other consoles.

If accessories skew the numbers that much, then the key to the wii's success would seem to be in squeezing revenue out of addons.

Squilliam said:

Because im sleepy as a rough figure due to the price cuts etc I would say its about 35-40% on the pure hardware alone.

Understandible. 35-40% is hardly domination.