| kowenicki said: Very good and impressive. But ever so slighlty misleading... People saying the PS2 is still relevant are very wrong. Do the same comparison for sales SINCE the start of since 2009: PS3 17.7m 360 14.7m PS2 6.4m since 2010: PS3 5.4m 360 4.5m PS2 1.3m
PS2 only really sells in emerging markets now. The vast majority of those sales you mention come from 2006 and 2007. If you start the compariosn of 360 and PS2 at the same time as the PS3 then you get a very different picture... hell if you start the 360 v PS2 comparison 10 weeks later (feb 2006 to now) you get a different picture. |
^ You're absolutly correct. The numbers are different depending on from when you start counting ;D
Obviously the PS2 had the advantage of being WW at the start of this "next gen", aswell as only being in its 5th year and the 360 in its first, price, good reputation from the gen before compared to the original XB, HD not being so mainstream at the start of "next gen" etc.
My point of this thread was the definition of "next gen", and that the PS2 is generally tossed aside as last gen and dosen't matter anymore, despite having great total sales numbers 5 years into this "next gen". But obviously the 360 will take "2nd place" this year, and the PS2 sales today isn't strong in the grand scheme of things. But still, it has done great numbers 5 years into a gen, a gen that its not allowed to be apart of.
Its a bit like saying that the first 360 gen ended when PS3 and Wii came into the market a year later. Or that the next gen of today started with the 360S and the sales of last gen consoles (360, PS3, Wii) is last gen and isn't really important.
