A good example of why Sony Consoles always succeed.

[Pyro as Bill]

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. 

Nintendo's motion games didn't do best though.

Mario Kart > Wii Sports Resort

NSMB  > Wii Fit, Wii Play

3D Mario, Smash > Wii Party