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ManUtdFan on 08 January 2013
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bdbdbd said:






EdHieron said:

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.

Obviously, you don't know what a console generation is. It's when consoles are released to compete in the same timeframe, or in case of the lack of competition, a console that replace the old one.
The 7th generation will most likely be remembered for the interface, just like the third.

I don't know what you're trying to prove with PS2 outselling 360 in Japan until recently. Anything outsells 360 in Japan, as it was dead right from the start.

PS2 sales started to fade when 7th generation consoles started coming out 7 years ago. Besides, your logic makes PS2 a seventh generation console.

 

Also worth pointing out, to call the 7th generation 'the HD generation' is a misnomer - not just because the Wii lacked HD functionality, but because the so-called 'HD twins', PS3/xbox360, rarely ever outputted games in full HD. 

1280x720 was the norm, which to me barely even registers as half-assed HD. Why? well my old PC 17" 4:3 monitor had a resolution of 1280x1024 - noone ever calls that HD, and that's factoring in a small screen size, which for those in the know is always going to flatter any resolution, within reason.