Wii now 10m ahead of PS3 - putting this into context / future predictions

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Sorair said:

shams said:

Sorair said:

naznatips said:

Jigglypuff said:
If price was a factor, the Gamecube woulda sold bucket loads.

Price is a factor. The leading game system is determined by the casual gamer sales. This has been proven time and time again. There are only a few factors though, and people tend to over-analyze things. The things that determine the best selling console are:

Price of Console
Quantity of Games
Price of Games
Press
Word of mouth

That's really it... you can go into quality and such all you want but the fact is the average consumer doesn't know shit about review scores. All they know is which console has the most games on the wall in the EB Games. We, the core gamers, who pay attention to review scores, follow internet news, and know things like sales data are less than 20% of the market.

Forget what the hell Shams was talking about the Wii is 10million units ahead of the PS3 or its software. I don't know what the hell was that about. Was it to take a shot at the PS3 or not?, but naz naznatips this is an excellent post.

Hardware - check the main page. From todays update, the Wii has now sold more than 10m MORE hardware than the PS3 has (in the same period of time).

 

Understandable, your still missing my point. Why attack the PS3 and not the Xbox 360?

I smell bias somewhere....

I think it had to do with the PS3 being behind by a nice round number like 10, and also it being released and selling during the exact same time period during the exact some span of its life.

 

If it makes you feel better if you align the launches of the Wii and 360 the Wii would be ahead by about 10.5m right now.