| bdbdbd said: @EdHieron: Wii sales fell off in 2005-2006? WTF? |
In Japan the PS2 was still beating the 360 until fairly recently in sales. Probably it was receiving some relevant level of sales until 2010 like Wii. As I said they're both being retired at about the same time. Sony has stopped producing PS2 consoles and Nintendo seems to have stopped making any real effort with the original Wii.
In the bigger picture, the 7th Gen is going to be remembered primarily as the era of the advent of HD Graphics in home video games (since Wii U is the first Nintendo console with HD video output and since it's really only more powerful versus 360 and PS3 in about the same respect as Wii to PS2 and not even to the extent that 360 and PS3 are to Wii, then Wii U should be considered Nintendo's 7th Gen console). Since the original Wii was never capable of outputting HD visuals, then it really shouldn't be counted as a 7th Gen console.
