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colafitte on 19 December 2013
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Shinobi-san said:
Seece said:
Shinobi-san said:
Does everybody on Vgchartz really agree that the console with the most sold units in its entire lifetime automatically becomes the winner of that generation? That's a load of bullshit if you ask me!

Depends what you describe the 'winner' as I guess, it's already very muddy waters. Right now the only basis of Wii winning is that it sold the most hardware. If in the end PS3 jumps ahead, how can you claim Wii won anything? Because it sold more in a certain time frame?

Possibly yes.

What if the PS3 surpasses the wii in the year 2020 or beyond (using an extreme example here) how relevant is that to "winning the 7th(?) console generation"? When most of the sales you needed to catch up to the wii occured well after the next gen happend? What if in future generations we have even more extremes happen...are we just going to say well you know PS6 sold more than the WiiME 50 years later...it obviously won that generation. Seems a bit silly to me.

Personally i think in some generations we have clear winners and in others we dont. Last gen is one of those tricky ones where all three consoles "won" in some way.

If we look at the lifetime of the generation, the Wii won that. If we look at the lifetime of the consoles..then the PS3 has a possibility of winning that. If we look at profits then either Wii or 360 won that. Theres just so many factors that come into play here. I dont think a blanket definition like "most units sold EVER of all time" sufficiently covers the question of winner of the generation. Not necessarily saying i have the best definition...but thats my take on it.


For me, it's just difficult to consider Wii the winner of the generation when it finished so bad that generation (5'2 million in 2012, 1'7 million until now in 2013) when PS3 has been outselling Wii since 2011.

How the winner of the generation can be the only console nobody wanted to buy just before the next gen started??? For me that's a pyrrhic victory.....