Is the Wii a success?

[Seece]

Carl2291 said:

Seece said:

Carl2291 said:
Something else to ponder - The Wii sold in "half" a generation, the same as the 360 and PS3 will likely sell in a full generation.

What about about the fact the gap is likely to go south of 20m when all is said and done?

1st - 110m~
2nd and 3rd - 90m~

They're all going to end up in the 30 - 40% marketshare range by the end of the gen

Then it's not even and the Wii clearly won by ~20 Million units.

That's a lot of consoles. It's in a lot less time than the current 2nd place console. It's going to have about 3 Years less time on the market than the 360 with meaningful sales yet it will beat it by about 20 Million units.

If Huddersfield Town are beating Manchester United 10 - 0 at half time, then Man U pull it back to 10 - 8 before the end... It's not a draw.

Again, stop restricting this to total HW, that's the main crux of it but I'm looking at the gen overall. 2006 - 2009 they owened, 2010 was nuetral and 2011 onwards they'll be dominated, not to mention quality and quantity of quality  SW has nearly always been in HD's favour. It's not as black and white as to determine if they did well or not vs the competition for the entire gen based on total HW sold. And your earlier point about Wii selling more in the first half of this gen vs what the HD consoles could likely sell life time just further points out they did well in the 1st half but lost it in the 2nd, (Just an FYI, at the half way point of wii's life it was at 67m, 2009) not sure what you'd class the half way point of this gen at, 2010? Seems a bit late to me, but even that's 85m, a figure both will surpass.