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curl-6 on 29 June 2017
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
curl-6 said:

MS did gain a lot of players from PS2, but you can't seriously tell me that no Wii owners also owned a PS2. I know many who did. The Wii was not insulated from the rest of the console market with no overlap; it was still a video games console competing with other video games consoles for mindshare and money. Sure, it drew in a lot of new gamers, but these do not constitute its entire audience; many people who gamed prior to the Wii owned one.

Im not saying no owners owned the PS2, but for me to discuss the PS2 audience with the Wii, we would have to take into account the software sales. The only element we could use to attribute one group to the other is how well software sold and the overall size of the market.Microsoft didnt increase the market (nor did they count on Sony putting a highly valuable new format into their console, prompting them to sign a deal with HD-DVD and create an addon which flopped), they just maintained it by mirroring the product Sony was delivering and thus when Sony dropped the ball scooped up the gamers with consistent third party and increased Halo sales to record numbers. The large amount of gamers Microsoft took away from the PS2 Shot their software sales into the Statusphere, which the Wii did not for third party unless you were playing Just Dance. The PS2 was known for its high third party sales, even so much so...that third parties to stay exclusive to the PS2 and not have to look elsewhere for profit. The Wii sold to more than just gamers, but the grandparents, moms and dads who dont even game. Where I live, I saw moms by the truckload buying Wii fit. Moms who dont even game at all. Nintendo literally succeeded at circumventing Sonys dominance with the traditional market and creating their own and the sales of software tells the story as to who is buying what.

The mainstream consumers, the guys playing Madden and Guitar Hero on their PS2, plenty of them got a Wii. Both were the go-to console for those who weren't super into gaming like we are. Throughout last gen in college dorms like mine and in family homes like most of my friends' and cousins' houses, it was a very common sight to see both a PS2 and a Wii connected to the TV. 

A big chunk of PS2's base was casual, and a lot of those people skipped the PS3 and got a Wii instead.