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UncleScrooge said: I don't like this chart. It puts things into a wrong context. The Wii was heavily supply constrained for almost 3 years. People literally lined up in front of stores to get a console. The PS4 is not supply constrained anymore and hasn't been so for half a year. As for the PS2 graph: The PS2 was only out in Japan for the first few months. You can see the graph spiking around the time it was released worldwide. And yeah, I didn't say that to miscredit your post in any way. The numbers are there and they don't lie, the PS4 is selling really well. But the circumstances for both the Wii and the PS2 were different. Also, the PS2 wasn't the break-out success people make it out to be. The PSX sold faster at peak popularity. The PS2 just kept on selling and selling and selling. A bit like the original Gameboy. Just wanted to get this stuff off my chest |
Anedoctal evidences vs hard data.
The graph shows what facts... supply constrained is something not factual... you can't know how much consoles have on shelves even when some places are having supply issues.
For example... in May PS4 was supply coinstrained in Germany for example.
PS2 tracked below Wii for two years or more... after that PS2 started to do record breaking yearly numbers.
