So how is the Wii tracking compared to the PS2 within the same timeframe?

[postofficebuddy]

9009pc said:

postofficebuddy said:

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 02nd Jan 2000 to 12th Feb 2005:

Console	PS2
Total	81,237,581

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 02nd Jan 2000 to 12th Feb 2011:

Console	Wii
Total	84,993,939

Kind of a quick and dirty comparisson but there you go. Subtract about 2 million for PS2's extra 8 months in Japan.  PS2 sold close to 19 million in 2005. PS2 was showing some insane legs going into its twilight years. It was still pulling consistent 200k plus weeks basically up until 2008.

I may have got this wrong but I am doing it year by year and the ps2 would be at 19 of june 2004 if it was on the market the same length of time as the wii has. 

which brings it to 63,493,619
PS2
year 1 27 mar 2000 to 3 mar 2001 7,227,310
year 2 4 mar 2001 to 2 mar 2002 17,448,635
year 3 3 mar 2002 to 1 mar 2003 21,453,530
year 4 2 mar 2003to 6 mar 2004 19,085,049
2.5 months 7 mar 2004 to 19 june 2004 3,279,095
total 68,493,61

wii 
year 1 19 nov 2006 to 24 nov 2007 15,038,868
year 2 25 nov 2007 to 22 nov 2008 21,421,973

year 3 23 nov 2008 to 28 nov 2009 21,192,363

year 4 29 nov 2009 to 27 nov 2010 19,751,703

2.5 months  28 nov 2010 to 12 feb 2011 7,589,032
total 84,993,939

I have a graph here on my screen but it wont paste into my post so, you put the data into a spreadsheet and create it yourselves.

it's amazing how similar they look.

You're going off of the Japanese launch. That's why I said subtract about 2 million for the extra 9 months there. It didn't launch in the west until October and November 2000. Although I think I should have lined up weeks slightly better since it wasn't the exact same week in the west.