| cleveland124 said: So since I don't own both a Ford and a Chevy, they aren't both competing for my $? Where are your statistics that Wii owners and PS3 owners only own one console? My guess is the large majority at least own or did own a PS2 based the PS2 numbers. I'd also question that if the Wii never existed, if this owners would just dissapear from the console market. I wouldn't expect the 360 or PS3 to open up 25 million over night, but over the course of their life, I'd see most Wii owners grabbing some console. The Wii certainly has some owners that would never purchase a PS3 or a 360, but I'm guessing that there are some fanboys that wouldn't buy other brands if their favorite dropped out of the market. It just gets me back to where I was originally. Let's say I'm going to make a gaming site to compare console says. Say I call this place vgchartz.com :). Your going to tell me that I can't come up with useful Wii to PS3 sales comparisons because 1. Most people will only buy one console, and 2. Most Wii owners won't buy a PS3 or 360 at their current prices?
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Ford and Chevy are competing for your money. As proof is if you needed something to drive, you would buy only one. They are so close to each other, that you would have no need for one of each. You own both a Wii and a PS3 because you happen to fit both demographics. But for people like you, you will probably get both consoles. One will not replace the other.
And a very large % of Wii owners are first time console owners. I am not talking about fanboys, I am talking about 40-50 year olds that never gamed before.
If you look at HD gaming, it is on par with last gen (aside from Japan). If the Wii was competing, those sales would be way down, as so many people bought the Wii. They are not down, because the Wii has been primarily purchased buy people who never bought a console before.
I am not bashing the Wii. I own one. I am just saying the reason I own one could never be replaced by the PS3 or 360, and the reason I own both the PS3 and 360 could never be replaced by the Wii.
