| konnichiwa said: Yes it is possible you are right but if I have to make a bet I would put my money on 'More PS2 owners bought a PS3 than a Wii' My estimates 6-10 million Nintendo lovers and gamers who had a Nintendo console before bought the Wii. 6-10 million of people who bought the Wii who never owned a console/handheld before bought it especially a lot of young teens/kids who got it for their birthday/Christmas. And the rest who bought it are PC/Xbox/PS2 gamers/owners. In the future you will be probably correct but at the moment I would go with 'You are wrong' The only place where there are more PS2 owners who bought a wii than a PS3 will be Japan. |
See I think it's just Europe for PS3.
In america there have been 5 Million PS2s sold.
At the same time there have been about 20 Million PS3 sold and 12 Million Wiis.
So if every person who owned a PS3 owned a PS2 you'd be right... but it seems like a VERY slim margin.
4 Million Gamecubes for example were sold around this time.
Leaving 8 Million Wiis unacounted for. Which means at least 3.99 million of people in the US had to be new casual users who mostly... do to wii shortages be the kind of people to wait outside stores to get wii consoles.
When you take into account the fact that it's very unlikely that every person who owns a PS3 once owned a PS2 and that a decent amount are selling to blu-ray enthusiasts, people disapointed with the cube and Xbox and just people who were too young to own consoles... and vice versa for the wii. Seems likely, or at the very least either way.
(41% of US PS3 owners use their blu-ray capabilties once a month.)
