Slimebeast said:
M8, the Wii will beat the PS2. Easily. The PS2's record year sold 21 mill. With 7 mills sold already in 2008, the Wii is on track to sell at least 25 mill this year. And they haven't even upped the production yet... |
Wii may make it. It may run into something of an SD/HD ceiling. While the world moves to HD and the PS3 drops in price, Wii will have to sell its 140 million units in fewer years than PS2 got. So it doesn't matter if Wii is tracking above PS2. Plus, I think the successor to Wii will cut off Wii sales way more than PS3 cut off PS2 sales, because PS3 is expensive and Wii 2 (or whatever) won't be.
In Wii's favor is the fact that the videogame market overall is bigger now and people in more countries have the cash to spend on this kind of thing, so 140 million Wiis sold won't be as dominant as 100 million PS1s... because PS3 / 360 / 720 will be selling a lot more than PS1 or PS2's competitors were. It's just a bigger market now, period.
Barring Wii Fit becoming a household necessity, the bigger market is the salient fact, the only fact, that may allow the Wii to match PS2.
When did PS2 come out? 2001? Then it will be around, cheap and with a huge game library, until 2011. Selling.
