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

I'm familiar with the blue ocean theory, but it's a mistake I think to assume that accounts for the entirety of the Wii audience.

The PS3 and 360 do not account for the whole PS2 userbase, because the PS360 numbers include the kids who started gaming on PS3/360 last gen and didn't own a PS2. There's a whole chunk of casual PS2 owners who got a Wii instead because it was the next trendy/popular system.

The total numbers almost match up perfectly with the PS2 base of the Xbox 360 and PS3. The Wii was not the same crowd. Look at the software sales.Nintendo circumvented Sony and they still are. They've even said it publically that they werent head on competing with the other brands. Yes, some gamers had the Wii...but the software sales to not correlate with the PS2, which in itself had a more diverse spread of games that turned large profits. Usually more traditionally casual games. Nintendos bundled motion games did the best that gen. Better than any other gen for that matter. 

They don't match up though, because a lot of PS3 and 360s went to kids who started gaming that gen and never owned a PS2.

That leaves a chunk of former PS2 owners unaccounted for; these are the guys who bought a PS2 cos their friends had one and played Guitar Hero with their mates, then got a Wii cos their friends had one and played Wii Sports and Mario Kart with their mates. This idea that games like these have separate segregated audiences is false; casuals just play whatever is pick-up-and-play and fun with friends, they don't care if it's a Nintendo game or a third party game, they don't care if it's Guitar Hero or Mario Kart.