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jarrod on 17 July 2010
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Smeags said:
jarrod said:

Actually, is that true?  I have no clue for Europe, but everywhere else seems split... Wii's fallen behind PS2 in Japan and won't recover imo (it's about a 3.5m ltd deficit launch aligned), but in the US it's still on par with or better than PS2 month to month afaik, even in the current economic climate... 

PlayStation 2 (2004)

  • Jan: 338,000
  • Feb: 363,000
  • Mar: 294,000
  • Apr: 189,000
  • May: 253,000
  • Jun: 427,000
  • 1H 2004: 1,864,000

Wii (2010)

  • Jan: 466,000
  • Feb: 398,000
  • Mar: 558,000
  • Apr: 277,000
  • May: 335,000
  • Jun: 423,000
  • 1H 2010: 2,457,000

Hm, very interesting indeed. It really is interesting to see the hardware explosion that this generation is seeing, especially compared to the PS2/Xbox/GCN gen. PS3, for a third place console, is already leagues ahead of last gen's third place console... and we're not finished yet. Just makes me sad to think of how low GCN's NPDs were.

PS3 was actually behind GC in Japan and the US until the Slim/rebranding/push.  Not many people remember now, but GC actually did pretty decent in the US (about 14m lifetime according to NPD), it just flopped everywhere else (but France, lol).  Of course GC was pretty much done selling by this point in the cycle too, while PS3 looks like it may now just be peaking.