So, the VG industry needs Nintendo as the leader

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Intrinsic said:

You are missing his point. The wii sold around a 100M consoles. Just like the PS1 did too. The PS2 sold 150M and the GC and XBOX still had nearly 50M of sales shared between them. The PS1 showed it expanded th eindustry cause not onlyhad a console never sold so much, but it carried over all those gamers into the PS2 and added more. The wii didn't do that with the wiiU. It got people that wouldn't have bought a console into buying one, but it didnt convert them. So it just lost them to smartphones and tablets.

If you look at sales of the PS3/360, they total around 160M. Doesn't that seem familiar to you, thats around how much the PS2 sold. The expanded gamer base sony achieved with the PS2, it lost a lot of those gamers to the 360. The consumers wii brought in aren't being lost to the PS4/XB1... they aren't even in this space anymore. They are playing their games on their phones or tablets. And thats why nintendo is in the position they are in now. Cause now, for the first time in over 8/9yrs. They are trying to compete in the same space with sony and MS again for the same kinda gamers.

You are adding consoles sold and believing it's the same as userbase. And it isn't. Many of those have the two consoles at the same time, many bought a slim model and even more bought a Wii.

Also, there's a big missing chunk of 24M players from the original Xbox

PS2+XBOX = 184M

PS360 = 160M

 

My point is that during last gen people bought more consoles than ever. Being 1 or a million different persons, people was willing to buy more consoles.