| Soundwave said: Fair enough, but I don't think it's wrong to point out the Wii isn't much like previous market leading consoles. This generation as a whole has been pretty different, the XBox 360 is probably going to sell upwards of 80 million, which is a pretty damn large userbase and will have gotten the majority of developer support and mindshare with *both* hardcore and casual (Kinect) consumer groups which eluded Nintendo. |
I strongly agree to this. Both XBOX360 and PS3 have overtaken SNES and NES in sales. Never before even one 'loser'-console did overtake an older 'winner'-console. The N64 was so far the best-sellign loser-console with 33 million devices. This generation not only one loser-console overtook the older winners, but both of the contenders did it. That's really awesome.
The reasons for this are not so clear. Some may say it's the relatively bad performance of the Wii. But I'm reluctant to call 95 million a bad performance. It may only seem so in comparison to the PS2. Maybe that's the reason. The market was growing, but PS2 totally destroyed the competitors, so they could not benefit. This time it's not that clear and all three console-makers benefitting from the increased market.
