Nuvendil said:
Corelation does not equal causation. Microsoft benefited, they were producing an exceptionally similar product. Nintendo did not, they sidestepped MS and Sony in their entirety. If Sony had done better, MS would have suffered, Nintendo not so much. Also, you are talking about the sales the PS2 got going somewhere. But the sales of Gen 7 vastly eclipse Gen 6. 260+ million vs less than 200 million. So the 7th gen totalled out with over 60 million additional sales. That's where the Wii got its numbers. New customers, second console sales. Not sales taken from Playstation. MS got those. |
PS home consoles are generally the most popular consoles and they tend to outsell the competition 2 to 1. Sony overpriced the hell out of the PS3 so alot of people didn't buy it for a long time. Years worth of PS like sales went somewhere and it wasn't just the 360 (as you can see with it's sales). Most of it went to the wii. Sorry but nintendo marketed the wii to casuals, not the typical gamer or nintendo fan. It got what sony lost that gen. Nintendo home consoles don't sell anything close to what the wii did, so something out of the norm happened in the gen with the wii in it and that was the one time sony fumbled one of it's home consoles. You can't explain that by saying nintendo sidestepped sony and ms when it can't even compete against sony's home consoles most of the time.
