Wii production to end in Japan

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retroking1981 said:

Bit off topic but think about Sega porting some of its bigger Mega Drive games (Streets of Rage, Sonic, Altered Beast) to the Master System, lol.

No idea to be honest, maybe your right. I guess the reason Sony is so successful with their older consoles once the next gen is out is because of pushing them in developing markets? Didn't PS2 go on the sell an additional 30-40m after the PS3 launch?

The PS2 sold 48.5M units from the PS3 release quarter to the end FY2011.  After that it's hard to calculate since Sony started adding PS2 & PS3 numbers together.  I would say the PS2 easily sold over 50M units after the release of the PS3.  I don't think Sony published where those sales were from, but it's likely a lot of those sales were in developing markets.

PS: The Master System Sonic didn't seem half bad and still had a sense of speed, though Altered Beast looked kind of slow.  Streets of Rage music was still good too.