| Dark_Lord_2008 said: Wii market share at 39.2% and falling, Microsoft market share now at 30.4% and falling, PS3 market share at 30.4% and rising. PS3 should achieve 33%+ market share when the generation is over. Wii peaked at 50%+ market share 2009 but has been clawed back by PS3 and XBox 360. PS3 has sold around 50% of annual console market share in the past 2 or 3 years. |
I don't think the Wii ever actually hit 50%.
I remember quite a few predictions and threads counting down to the Wii hitting market majority share (over 50%) in a similar fashion to the "PS3 surpassing the Xbox 360" predictions/threads yet I don't remember any of those celebrating the point when it happened.
There was a time when the Wii was selling more units than both the PS3 and the Xbox 360 combined, which correlated with the time during which the Wii *would have* sold more than 50% of the total hardware units moved in the 7th generation to date *if* one took into account the 5 million unit lead the Xbox had due to launching a year earlier, but I don't remember the Wii ever having passed that psychologically significant 50% mark.
I remember quite a few members of the Super Nintendo Fan Brigade making mighty assumptions that when, not if that happened, third party developers would have to start lead developing for the Wii, publish every major title on the Wii, develop more exclusives for the Wii, etc. or "go out of business" and that doing otherwise wouldn't be allowed by shareholders of said developers. There were some pretty crazy statements being thrown around and beliefs being entertained at the apex of Nintendo's success.
