| TheSource said: Even PS2 saw its advantage narrow pretty heavily mid-decade...but since Microsoft / Nintendo saw declining hw / sw sales that advantage was re-asserted once the smaller sw markets had to be replaced. Figures above combined production shipments with shipments to retail for PS2, so the figures include about 5m units of PS2 redundancy (not all systems made by April 2006 were shipped to retailers by April 2006) that favors Xbox / GC even more.
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Except theres a significant difference in this case between the Wii / HD consoles and the PS2 / Non PS2 consoles of the previous generation. In the previous generation the PS2 sold significantly more software than either the Xbox or Gamecube. In this generation both the Xbox 360 and PS3 year to date software totals are similar to the Wii's. They are both 51 and 55M respectively against 71M for the Wii. Further to that they both sell their games at a higher average sale price than the Wii with respect to both third party software especially and overall. Since hardware follows software sales, theres no reason to expect the HD console hardware to fall rapidly whilst compelling software is still being made for those consoles.
Tease.
