Could someone explain it to me ? (Ps2 sales)

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RolStoppable said:

gergroy said:
This is what happens when you have one dominant system. The game library gets so saturated that the ceiling for game sales is lowered... basically, too much competition in one console ecosystem will hamper the potential for all games in that ecosystem.

Apparently that didn't happen to the DS.

Lack of innovation is the real culprit, because you aren't going to create new consumers for your games by giving existing consumers more of the same; in such a case you will have to rely on expansion into more countries, if you want to see growth.

It did. Actually it was worse for DS, because Nintendo pretty much sucked out all the oxygen. 24 of the top 30 games are all Nintendo published. Highest selling non-Nointendo published game was Cooking Mama at 5.5 million. Compare to PS2 where the top 2 selling games are 3rd party (GTAs at 20 and 16 million) and 25 of the top 30 games are 3rd party.

Also 6 of DSs top 30 are Pokemon, and 7 of the top 30 are Pokemon.

And aside from the top top selling games PS2 did better in individual game sales. PS2 had 38 games sell over 4 million. DS had 21 games sell over 4 million.

So the picture is really no different for DS, and is arguably worse.