Microsoft needs to do something FAST!!

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loves2splooge said:

DirtyP2002 said:

PearlJam said:
I really don't think MS is upset about how this gen has played out. The last PlayStation was a dominant system that no other console came close to even scratching. This time around the PS3 is in third place, and if everything goes well it might secure 2nd at best.

I don't understand how people think this is good for Sony and bad for Microsoft. That would be like a new Apple OS taking away most of Microsoft's customers and people trying to spin that even though the latest Windows OS is in last place, it might catch up to the Apple OS by the end of the cycle.

best post ever.

You really have to see things in a wider context

Exactly.

Worldwide Console Market Share - Last Gen

PS2: 134302434 74.61% (and still selling)

Xbox: 24189847 13.44%

GC: 21515337 11.95%

Worldwide Console Market Share - This Gen

Wii: 66392161 48.79%

Xbox 360: 37510285 27.57%

PS3: 32173905 23.64%

That pretty much tells the whole story right there. Sony's market share shrunk by over three times, Microsoft's market share more than doubled and Nintendo's market share increased slightly more than four-fold. Huge triumph for Nintendo, great moral victory for Microsoft, huge dissapointment for Sony.

This gen is still young and has only reached slightly more than 3/4 of the unit volume of last gen (136m v. 180m for last gen's consoles) but even taking that into account, the losses for Sony are massive. With numbers like this, it's impossible that all these Nintendo converts are "new gamers". It looks like a good chunk of the PS2 base defected to the Wii. Has to be the case. If not, where are those 100m+ PS2 owners without a PS3?

I think a huge chuck of PS2 owners defected to the 360.. Especially in America. I think most of the "new Wii" owners are casual gamers.