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

[johnsobas]

LuStaysTru said:
The NES, Super NES, Nintendo 64 and the PS2 all had one thing in common. None of their successors had backwards compatibility.

The PS2 is still selling units because the PS3 is still pretty expensive. When the next Nintendo console is released i believe it will be backwards compatible and cheap enough.

This of course is unless Nintendo keeps the Wii around as a "Third Pillar"

ps3 always has had bc with ps1, and it had ps2 bc up until late 2007, and it returned in summer 2008 even.  The ps3 wasnt' successful enough out of the gates to take away from the ps2's steam though.  PS3 was expensive and not a casual friendly console.  I agree that the wii wont' have the same tail that the ps2 did but it may not have to, the wii is probably gonna be 10 million + ahead of the ps2 in the same period when the wii successor launches.  Whether that is enough or not is yet to be seen.