The Franchise Wars: Last Generation VS This Generation

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Words Of Wisdom said:
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?

Now, you do raise a very interesting point that is more than worth discussion, so I think it's really important that you not make misleading arguments.  Cut out the top 4 on Xbox and GC like you did to the PS2, and you get about 2.2m and 3.5m, respectively.  So the PS2 #5 seller sold 2.5-3.5 times as much as the other systems' #5 sellers.  That's still not the 5x+ advantage the console numbers have but it's a much bigger difference than your post seems to be painting.