Xbox 360 has surpassed SNES sales.

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killeryoshis said:

Kyuubi Ricky SSJ2 said:

It's too be expected really, gaming is more popular now then it was then. It was only a matter of time. Now all 360 needs to do is sell a game over 20 million. Modern Warfare 3 might be able to do it.

that's not true. other than population growth and expansion in other countries there was no growth.

Sorry had to say it

This is just plain out false. The game consoles still sell in pretty much only in North America, Europe and Australia. By VGChartz data, current generation consoles have sold less than 40 million outside of those areas. Or roughly 10%.

In the SNES generation, roughly 100 million consoles were sold. (50 30 10 5 minor consoles)
This generation, we're looking at between 250 and 300 million consoles.

Let's remove the sales from outside of Europe, Oseania and North America. That gives us 210-260 million consoles. Keep in mind that the SNES generation had some sales outside of these three continents, so this comparison makes it seem like there has been a smaller growth than there has.

Now, what has the population growth in North America, Europe and Australia been? By the courtesy of Gapminder.org, here's the 1990 vs 2010 numbers.

	1990	2010	Difference
United Kingdom	57.6 million	61.4 million	7%
United States	250 million	306 million	22%
Australia	16 million	21 million	31%

 Does that come close to explaining the increase in sales? No, not at all.

Gaming is far larger than it was during the SNES era.