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Cerebralbore101 on 15 May 2025
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Conina said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

PS3 + 360  + Wii = around 272 million units sold lifetime. But at this time many customers owned multiple consoles. Wii60.com was a website that told people to buy both a Wii and a 360 for the price of a PS3. https://web.archive.org/web/20060706052510/http://www.wii60.com/

PS5 + Series + Switch = Around 254 million units sold lifetime. The generation isn't over yet though. This generation has a much healtheir slice of the gaming pie than 7th gen. Despite Microsoft doing their very best to no longer sell consoles. Despite a massive number of Wii purchases being thrown into a closet roughly one year after purchase. Despite RROD causing many people to buy a 2nd 360 after their first one broke.

Handheld consoles are consoles, too.

PS3 + 360  + Wii + DS + PSP = around 490 million units sold lifetime.

PS4 + XBO  + Wii U + 3DS + Vita = around 278 million units sold lifetime.

And how do you know that many customers didn't also own multiple consoles last gen and this gen?

Most people that owned a handheld also had a dedicated gaming console in their house. Do you honestly think that a majority of DS or PSP owners didn't also own or have access to a home console?

"And how do you know that many customers didn't also own multiple consoles last gen and this gen?"


That's my point. You can't simply count up lifetime total sales and state that one number is bigger therefore better. You have to take into account the fact that owning both a 360 and a PS3 offered a bigger variety of games than owning just one, while also taking into account the fact that the majority of Xbox games are on PS5 or coming to PS5. And not only that but you have to take into account the fact that Xbox 1st party output took a huge nosedive going into 8th gen from 7th gen. And not only that but most Wiis were thrown in a closet a few years after use. 

Anyway the point of all this is that you can't simply count each console as an individual customer and then claim the market is shrinking when total lifetime sales of all consoles combined go down. It's not that simple.