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happydolphin said:
darkknightkryta said:
I disagree, the flaw with your argument is your assuming the soccer moms who bought the Wii didn't buy PS2s previously. The PS2 wouldn't have sold 150 million units without them. Soccer moms moved over to the Wii which is why it sold the highest amount of consoles this gen. Microsoft and Sony just shared the rest of the gamers.

I never said the opposite, but I understand that the term blue ocean may have led you to think that's what I meant. No, in fact I'm well aware that a good portion of PS2's were sold due to casual offerings and some were sold as dvd players, so your post is not newsto me. But good point.

And yes, MS and Sony shared the rest of the gamers, eg what ITT Icalled the red ocean.

To highlight, in OP, I mentioned that MS won Sony's red ocean and Nintendo didn't. I limited my piece to that and made no mention of Sony's blue ocean with the PS2.

Let's take this a bit further, now for my understanding, the PS2 was the Red Ocean.  People considered the Wii "Blue Ocean" cause they were trying to create a new fanbase but was it really?  The Wii, 360, PS3 just shared the PS2's fanbase, I actually believe the 360 did a better job at expanding the market this gen, but that's another discussion.  Or am I just misunderstanding the terms here?