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

[johnsobas]

theprof00 said:

guiduc said:

Snake612 said:

The Wii's current worldwide sales is at 67.21 million copies. At this point its selling somewhere between 250-300k first week worldwide. Those worldwide sales could change at any time this year due to huge title releases,big titles being bundled with the console or the holiday season.

The Wii launched in 2006 and my guess is it could be discontinued by 2012 or 2013 (due to the fact that the average video game generation last 5-6 years)

The Playstation 2 has been on the market since 2000 and it will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of its release in Japan next month.

The current worldwide sales of the PS2 should be around 150 million copies and by the time its discontinued,(which I predicted early 2011), I predict the sales to be at 160 million copies worldwide.

The Wii will probably sell another 20 million copies in the next 2 to 3 years.

The sales of the Wii will be around 90 million copies and by then Nintendo will probably make the decision to discontinue the console.

So by 2011, The PS2 WW sales will be around 160 million copies

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by 2012 or 2013, The Wii's WW sales will be at 90 or 100 million copies by the time its discontinued

The way I see it, it will be impossible for the Wii to outsell the PS2 in WW sales.

which means the PS2 will remain the best selling console of all time.

 

Thoughts?

I KNEW IT WAS A PSFAN SINCE I SAW THE TITLE OF THE THREAD!

Well, DS say hello and will kick your PS2 within 5 years.

considering the fact that ps2 is just seeing release in several countries, and the DS verges on being 2 distinct systems, I'd say it was hardly a fair comparison.

The only way the wii will continue to sell in 5 years is if Nintendo can somehow keep it as their only console. From what I've seen, backwards compatibility destroys any emulated console. So, if it does outsell PS2 in 5 years, wii2 probably will not have BC, or wii will still be the only Nintendo home console.

bc is a pretty new thing, but it never stopped the ps1 from selling a long time after the ps2 came out.  Just because it has BC doesnt' mean it will stop selling, i don't where you get any evidence of this.