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

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Chrizum said:

Snake612 said:

sguy78 said:
Seriously, you really think the Wii is going to have trouble beating 90-100 million?

I'm not saying there are going to have trouble getting to 100 million WW but what console in the history of gaming has sold 100 million more copies in the next two-three years. Its never been done before.

This is starting to annoy me. Numerous people asked you this, but you never respond. So once again:

What makes you think the Wii will stop selling after 2-3 years, whereas the NES, SNES, PS1 and PS2 all sold millions after their successors were released?

Snake, there's nothing wrong with having a prediction, but like Chrizum just said, you have to explain yourself a little better.

Even if one of us made a new thread saying the opposite of what you're claiming, we would still have to back ourselves up. 



For the record, one thing you clearly are overlooking, is the fact that the Wii is tracking higher than the PS2...meaning the Wii is selling faster.  If after 4 years the Wii has sold more systems than the PS2 did (and Nintendo is still struggling with demand), What makes you believe that its game over for Nintendo? How did the PS2 sell "over a 100 million" (note: The PS2 according to VGchartz has SOLD 130,429,735 worldwide)

 

The Wii is not going to stop selling after the next gen of consoles comes out.  Nintendo has shown it can sell other iterations of hardware side-by-side (NES in SNES days, GBC into GBA days, GBA into DS days...Nintendo killed off the Gamecube and N64 after their successors launched for other reasons...the systems were not selling, so no need to keep producing them)

 

If the Wii is tracking more than the PS2, and it will not stop selling (Nintendo will NOT cut off their most successful console ever. Seriously.  There's a really really good bet the Wii successor will be backwards compatible), then how can you assume what you're assuming?