Wii U hardware up 685% in UK!

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Kane1389 said:

archbrix said:

Kane1389 said:

archbrix said:

Let's put that "selling more than 8 year old consoles" point into perspective, shall we?

We're talking about consoles (PS360) that peaked much later in their life due to high launch prices, consoles that are now mass market prices with extensive libraries of games, and consoles that just had the single biggest entertainment product release (GTAV) in history revenue wise (not to mention sales monsters like COD every year).

When you consider that, a console less than a year old with a relatively tiny selection of games that is still the most expensive gaming console on the market beating systems with that kind of appeal is certainly noteworthy.

i'll just point towards the fact how Wii and PS360 were trashing PS2 in its 8th year.

Zorg already admirably addressed your point.  By the end of the PS2's 7th year it had already sold over 120m units.  The PS360 were somewhat late bloomers regarding sales.  They were intended to sustain the longest generation the industry has ever seen.  As a perfect example I'll answer your post above with this:  The PS2 wasn't receiving games the caliber of GTAV in its 8th year.

Thats a pretty cheap excuse. And PS2 was getting popualr games in its late years (just not as popular as GTA) like GOW 2. And PS360 together sold 160m so i'd say thats pretty impressive.

And you're yet to adress the fact Wii as trouncing the PS2 in 2007 and 08

GoW is clearly not on the same calibur as GTA in terms of sales/popularity. GTA 5 first weeks sales were over triple GoW 2 lifetimes sales.

And Wii is an exception, u said earlier we would likely never see a PS2 again well the same thing could be said for Wii, there will most likely never be a console with such enourmous demand as Wii had in its first 2-3 years.

Also Genesis was outsold by NES in its early years. Saturn was being outsold by SNES and I believe even PS1 got off to a slow start with SNES outselling it initially. Dreamcast was outsold by PS1/N64 in 2000. PS1 sold better than GC/Xbox in 2002. PS2 sold better than PS3/360 in 2006 & 2007. It is very common for previous gen consoles to do better than next gen consoles at first.