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WilliamWatts on 10 January 2010
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NYANKS said:
WilliamWatts said:
The PS2 is probably going to remain ahead of the Wii in terms of LTD sales as the thing just keeps selling. However if we discuss them as phenomenoms in the market, Nintendo has arguable achieved more against far heavier opposition and they have done so almost solely on the backs of their first party software efforts which may remain unparrelled as far as first party exclusive system sellers are concerned.

Oh and the DS is sure to pass the PS2, that much you can count on.


I'm actually curious as to how much of the Wii's success is attributable to the hardware as opposed to the software.  It's software is quite a bit weaker than the PS2's at this point, at least in quantity of great games.  It's interesting, if the Wii hadn't had a new control scheme, the consoles scenario would probably mimic the Gamecubes.

My counter argument is this. Whilst the PS2 had a greater quantity of excellent content it did not have as wide of a spread in terms of which markets this content targetted. So whilst the PS2 had many excellent core and hardcore games it was lacking in comparison to the Wii in terms of the variety of casual markets it was able to tap. This is the reason why the PS2 titles don't tend to have sold as much as the individual Wii titles as the Wii titles especially from Nintendo are effectively unanswered and collected the entirety of their respective markers whilst on the PS2 the titles had much greater competition and market fragmentation.

Arguing what the Wii would have been like without their innovative control scheme would be the same as arguing what the PS3 would have been like had it launched for the same price with mediocre performing hardware. I don't think its very fruitful discussion personally.