Yes, the Wii is competing with the 360 and PS3, and it's easy to prove it

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Machina-AX said:
Aligned launches on that tool for me:

PS3 is something like 500,000 WW behind PS2, not 9.2 million :S
360 is something like 1.6 million ahead of the Xbox.


Which would be a net growth going by the OP's reasoning (which I don't agree with in the 1st place, but whatever...).

That's because the launch schedule was totally different for those consoles. Doing it per-territory is the correct way since it allows us to compare how customers are buying them (not many people would fly to Japan just to buy a console).

I hope you're not suggesting that the PS3 is following PS2's footsteps. I don't think you are, but if that's the case I'd like to present you to CrazzyMan and leo-j.

BTW, what don't you agree with regarding my reasoning? Is there any other reasonable theory to explain those observations?