Wii vs PS2 sales

[TheLastStarFighter]

DerNebel said:

TheLastStarFighter said:

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.

Yeah, you're ignoring a little something here: the PS2.

The Wii had sold 80% of its lifetime numbers at the end of 2010 (calendar year not fiscal) with its successor still 2 years of, the PS1 had shipped just over 70% of its lifetime numbers at the end of FY 99 when the PS2 was already out in Japan. The PS1 continued to sell 30 million more units with the PS2 already on the market, the Wii only managed to sell 20mil (not even 4mil since the launch of the Wii U) more even though the Wii U didn't come out for 2 more years.

Good job sidetracking.  So you agree that the PS1 and Wii have extremely similar sales lives?  The sales of Wii U and PS2 have nothing to do with it.  Further, as I've said in this thread, the successor to Wii from the mass-market perspective was the PS360.  Most consumers don't care about the brand.  They bought a Wii, then they bought a PS360 once they became cheaper and they had an HDTV making the systems worthwhile.  PS360 post-2010 has more practical relevance to Wii in the way that PS2 did to PS1 than Wii U ever had.