| 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 and 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.
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Your guess, average generation, probably, decision to discontinue. Yeah right.
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Maybe it's the fact that Sony was once on top of the mountain in this industry, and the fall from grace has been swift and brutal. The worst thing about being on top is the fall to the bottom, and maybe the transition from PS2 dominance to PS3 heel-dragging has had a damaging effect on the fanboy psyche, leaving them vulnerable and insecure. Maybe fanboys are suffering from a severe case of paranoid delusion, brought about by denial that the PS3 is in third place when once Sony was leading the charge.
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