The Franchise Wars: Last Generation VS This Generation

[Words Of Wisdom]

leo-j said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

Viper1 said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

There's something wrong with comparing current numbers to LTD numbers...

Out of all of them, the 360 vs Xbox comparison seems the most favorable followed by the Wii vs GC.

The PS2 vs PS3 one though... 

 Obviously it's unfair as a means of directly comparing just based on numbers but when you take in install base and shelf life, you can see how well it's doing relative to the last generation.

 

We can see Wii and X360 are stomping on last gen sales even though they've not been out for as long as the last gen consoles were.  Some PS3 titles show they are still selling very well compared to last gen in spite fo the install base discrepency.

At this point I honestly don't believe the install base matters as much as people believe.  Even with an enormous install base, we're still seeing a majority of <10m sales across the board for the PS2.

Your saying a 130 million install base vs a 12 million install base doesnt matter? With the games still selling?

Leave it to leo-j to completely miss the point.  

Okay let's take this slowly.  According VGC, the PS2 hasn't hit 130m yet.  In fact VGC has it just under 118m.  Already you're exaggerating.

And my point is quite honestly this:  If you have an install base is anywhere between 5 and 6 times that of your competitors, why are the game sales not reflecting those multipliers.   According to VGC, the highest selling game on the PS2 had 15.44m sales with nothing over 10m if you cut out the top 4 which then drops to 8.89m.  The highest selling game on the GC and XB were 7.08m and 8.45m respectively. 

The PS2 has about 5~6 times as much hardware out there as the Gamecube so why is it that its titles don't reflect that?  If the highest selling GC game is 7.08m, why don't we see PS2 games selling in quantities greater than 40m?