PS3 performing better than PS1?!

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Kasz216 said:

NJ5 said:

Kasz216 said:

Still though NJ5... there has to be a more complicated metric then simply Market Share.

 

I mean if the Wii outsells the PS2... will it really be less successful due to it's market share even though it specifically created the new fans that propelled itself to it's larger sales?

For the PS3 who is mostly selling to PS2 fans only that's one thing... but for a console that's created ~33% of it's base and increased the gaming market in a huge way... it's hard to argue against numbers like that.

Hence why such a metric is argueable... it's hard to figure out.

 

I think it's safe to say that the Wii is less successful than the PS2 at capturing the console market as a whole. It may of course be more successful in certain market segments, and at expanding the market, but on the whole I still think the PS2 was more successful.

Now if we want to talk about success in terms of profits, the Wii is surely more successful than the PS2.

 

Fair enough... it seems odd though when comparing success to penalize something for being the own engine of it's destruction in that regard so to speak.

Well if marketshare is the measure, wouldn't that also mean NES was more successful than PS2?  In fact, that makes NES the most successful console in history?