| UncleScrooge said: Oh, come on. This is not true and you know it. The Wii being supply constrained is not "anecdotal evidence" - that thing was selling for way more than retail price for years. You can even looks at VGchartz' very own weekly sales graphs and see the heavy fluctuations in weekly sales the Wii had. Sorry but this is just cheap and you know it. You've been here for years, haven't you been posting during the Wii days? The Wii being completely sold out was like the most popular topic on these very forums for years. It was sold out everywhere except Japan. You can't deny that. The graph does indeed show the factual numbers but the PS2 was only out in Japan for the first months. The circumstances were different, that's all I'm saying. Yeah, PS4 was supply constrained in early 2014. I know that, it's not anecdotal evidence (See? I'm being consistent here). And yeah, PS2 did amazing numbers in its later life cycle. But its peak year was lower than the Wii's and I doubt the PS4's 2015 will match the Wii's 2008 (you are free to disagree here). The Wii had a higher peak but dropped off faster. The PS2 had a lower peak but continued to sell steadily in great numbers for years. The PS2 is the best selling console in history and I'm confident the PS4 will sell 100m lifetime. I didn't want to get into a battle here |
I'll back off now, have a nice day 
That whole supply constrained crap is just BS. We are talking about shipped numbers here as far as Sony is concerned. Looking at how supply constrained something is to justify your argument is truly anecdotal. That's like saying, company A shipped 15 and company B shipped 10M, but cause company B couldn't make enough to meet demand and was thus supply constrained, it means it sold better than company A.
Makes no sense, keep it simple, as of sometime in December, the PS4 was the fastest selling console ever, but that's all going to change now cause the Wii will retake that title for the next 2/3 years. How many consoles are shipped is the most accurate way to know exactly how many consoles are out there, as always shipped ultimately means sold. This is why MS even refuses to give an accurate number of its shipped Xbox consoels by platform.
