PS2 will remain the best selling console of all time by the end of this gen

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Snake612 said:

Showertea said:
Generations last six years, so the PS2 stopped selling in 2006, right? Completely taken off the market?

That's not what I'm saying. You're missing the point. The gamecube came out in 2001 and was discontinued in 2006. The xbox came out in 2001, discontinued in 2006. The PS2 kep going because of its strong weekly sales and Sony wanted to see the console have a 10 year lifespan. Now that  it will reach its 10th year in japan  by march and in us by october, Sony should discontinue the console in early 2011. That's what i'm trying to say.

Yet you expect Wii to be halted instead of continued sales like PS2?

 

You do know the NES and SNES continued selling well into the proceeding generations, don't you?   ALL the winning consoles have sold long into the next generation.   The ones that stop are the ones that lost because dev/pub/retail/consumer support itself stops.