| fallen said: You're looking at it wrong, PS3 and 360 are essentially the same console, minus a few exclusive games. I and others sometimes refer to them as the "HD twins".
The HD twins are beating the Wii, worldwide, handily, and that trend has accelerated a lot recentely. So the most powerful console(s) did win.
If there were two motion console, the Wii and the Apple iWaggle, hypothetically, and they split the motion/casual market in half, and 360 sold the exact same (which would put it higher than Wii and iWaggle seperately), would people say the 360 was crushing the opposition?
Also handhelds are a different beast. If you value graphics you will play a console anyway. So all the handhelds dont count.
The most powerful console, or at least close, has always won. Playstation was more powerful than N64 despite what people claim, or close enough. Xbox would have beaten PS2 if given enough time, and really did great only because it was more powerful, and also beat the vastly more entrenched Gamecube simply because it was more powerful. I remember back in that day the Nintendo fans constantly talked about how GC would crush Xbox once game X came out (zelda, mario, etc), but this never happened. Nintendo had one billion times more powerful software library than Xbox that gen (MS has no software at all, zero, to start, versus countless huge Nintendo franchises), but still lost to it simply because Xbox was more powerful.
Also Dreamcast lost to PS2. Saturn lost to Ps1, Jaguar lost to PS1/N64/Saturn, 3DO lost to PS1/N64/Saturn, all these were directly because they were less powerful. |
Honestly, like it or not, HD twins are not the same console. The 360 or PS3, without the presence of the other, would be at no more than 55-60m, and that's optimistic. Also, if an "iWaggle" released, the market would not be split in half. Apple would appeal to some other people and many would get both (as is the case with HD), most likely not reducing Wii sales to below 65m. Wii sales would still be making a mockery out of PS360 sales.
Also, you've got to be kidding! The N64 was a generation ahead of the PS1. Why the heck do you think it released so late? Also, the Xbox would have never even got close to the PS2. It could've topped 40m, but not much more. Oh, and you seriously think that the Xbox won 'cause of power? It won 'cause of Microsoft's money! Third party support, Halo, appealing to Americans... Those were the reasons ehy Xbox won, not power.
Finally, Dreamcast lost because nobody (third parties, disappointed Saturn owners, "betrayed" retailers from Saturnday confusion) liked. Sega and because everyone was simply waiting for the PS2, the quality of which was guaranteed for them. The Saturn lost because it angered third parties and retailers and because it was a complete and utter mess to code for. And 3DO, really? Honestly, none of these had anything even remotely to do with power. The Saturn actually lost partially because its six processors were too confusing to code for, which I'm assuming has something to do with having too much power.
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