Wii vs PS2 sales

[TheLastStarFighter]

DerNebel said:

TheLastStarFighter said:
Wii didn't have terrible legs so much as PS2 had really good ones. Wii's life was much like PS1's and other gen leaders before. Gen 7 was like two gens, where first people jumped from PS2 to Wii and then from Wii to PS360 when they (and HDTV's) became cheaper.

Yeah...not really, the PS1 sold for 10 years and still sold over 6 million in the same year in its life that the Wii is now in. Let's not act as if it was any different, the Wii did in fact have terrible legs.

Wrong.

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Their sales curves are almost identical.  Wii sold slightly quicker and peaked in year 3 instead of year 4.  But Wii's year 4 was the same as PS1's.  Year 5 was similar at 18 mil vs 15 mil.  Year 6 saw Wii sell 10 vs PS1's 9. Year 7 is similar.  It isn't until year 8 that PS1 gets much of an edge, and it lasts for about a year before it too dies.  So Wii and PS1 have almost the same sales curve with Wii having a bigger year 2 and 3 while PS1 maintained relevance for about 1 more year.