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Soundwave said: For sales they are the most consistent console seller by a country mile. No one else has consistently sold consoles like them ... Nintendo, Sega, Microsoft are all over the place generation to generation. |
The market has grown a lot since the NES so generation to generation comparisons going too far back are not really useful.
Here's around how big the market was with the cumulation of the top 3 consoles of each gen:
NES gen the market was around ----- 80M (79% NES)
SNES gen the market was around --- 100M (50% SNES)
PS1 gen the market was around ----- 145M (71% PS1)
PS2 gen the market was around ----- 200M (77% PS2)
Wii gen the market was around ------ 270M (31% PS3)
From the PS2 to the PS3 Sony had one of the largest gen to gen drops in console market share in history. I think only Atari had a bigger drop from one gen to the next gen.
The PS3 sold a lot (so too did the X360), but with the massive drop in market share and the massive monetary losses, the PS3 was not really consistent with its predecessors.
