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Sales - Wii vs PS2 sales - View Post

gcube2000 said:

Wii fell behind PS2 by having terrible legs.

The first PS2 FY is only a month of sales in Japan, so it makes it look a bit disorted. PS2's sceond FY includes 4-5 months of sales in the rest of the world, just like Wii's first FY.  And when you match FY sales after worldwide release a funny thing happens:

 

1st FY   PS2- (9.20) 10.61       Wii- (5.84) 5.84

2nd FY  PS2- (18.07) 28.68     Wii- (18.61) 24.45

3rd FY   PS2- (22.52) 51.20     Wii- (25.54) 50.39

4th FY   PS2- (20.10) 71.30     Wii- (20.54) 70.93

5th FY   PS2- (16.17) 87.47     Wii- (15.08) 86.01

6th FY   PS2- (16.22) 103.69     Wii- (9.84) 95.85

7th FY   PS2- (14.20) 117.89     Wii- (3.99) 99.84

 

You can still clearly see that Wii sold faster in a certain period, and if we factor in PS2's half year head start in Japan the Wii did get in front at some point. But it actually wasn't ever by more than a few million.(if you can find some proper Japan sales numbers for 2000 you could probably calculate by how much exactly).