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Playingwithfirex on 18 February 2010

1.2 to 1, just a guess



2010 Hardware Sales Predictions

Wii: 20m- Sales will drop, but not by much.

PS3: 13.5m- It sold 12m in 2009, its only common sense it will sell more this year.

Xbox 360: 11m- It sold 11m in 2008 and 2009, I think it will sell the same.

My Fanboy Speech...

Why do you have to make excuses to defend a product that you purchased, but that's the only connection you have to it, you don't make it, you don't lose or gain money on it. I don't see where all of the defensiveness comes in, there is no reason for you or anybody else to feel obligated to defend it. Now I would understand if one of you were a developer for the product and you slaved over said product only to hear somebody call it stupid or a piece of junk. But none of you developed it, none of you are mature enough to realize that. Choosing a product all comes down to preference, you chose said product because it is best for you. Simple as that!

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DnE on 18 February 2010
jarrod said:
nordlead said:
jarrod said:

Really interesting.  Could you also do the 2nd & 3rd place consoles?  Like Xbox vs 360 and GC vs PS3?  And maybe each of the handhelds vs GBA?

you could do it and post the results. All the information is freely available on this website (well, back to the PS2 geneartion anyways). I can't do it any faster than you, and you are the one who is interested

But unlike you, I am laaaaaaazy. :/


I was interested as well

  Wii PS3 X360 PS2 Xbox GC
Japan 9.92 4.69 0.94 12.56 0.47 3.48
US 31.65 12.7 16.32 25.5 13.26 10
Others 25.63 13.86 10.55 22.79 6.78 4.28
Total 67.2 31.25 27.81 60.85 20.51 17.76

EDIT: Note this is region aligned and the total row is the sum of the regions.



nordlead on 18 February 2010
Playingwithfirex said:
1.2 to 1, just a guess

considering all the numbers are linked right on this page, there is no need to guess.

launch aligned - 1.38:1

region aligned - 1.1:1




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Snake612 on 19 February 2010

I think its sort of at a faster rate of the PS2. Wii is in its 4th year and is close to 70 million copies and the PS2 is in its 10th year and is at 160 million WW, I think.



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jarrod on 19 February 2010
Snake612 said:
I think its sort of at a faster rate of the PS2. Wii is in its 4th year and is close to 70 million copies and the PS2 is in its 10th year and is at 160 million WW, I think.

PS2's closer to ~140m.  



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MasterZack on 19 February 2010

Like a Ferrari (Wii) vs VW Jetta (PS2)



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Maynard_Tool on 19 February 2010
nordlead said:
RolStoppable said:
nordlead said:
RolStoppable said:

I don't think that the PS2 is handicapped by its staggered launch. Sony had problems to manufacture enough units during the first year, so even if the PS2 would have launched worldewide in March 2000, the numbers wouldn't have looked any different.

that isn't 100% true, but it is partially true. Had they planned to launch WW, they would have had more factories from the start rather than just factories for Japan. Also, they would have been working on resolving the shortage problem sooner rather than later.

Either way you slice it though, the Wii is the fastest selling console ever. It is even slightly ahead of the almighty DS. Although, I think it will fall slightly behind this year, as it can't possibly sell 30m/year as they aren't producing that many.

There were still big shortages during the American launch, so I don't buy your excuse. You are only trying to paint a prettier picture for Sony by covering up their incompetence. It's not Nintendo's fault that Sony couldn't produce more PS2s, therefore a worldwide launch aligned comparison over a time period of more than three years is absolutely fair, even though the PS2 was only available in one territory for about half a year.

The next thing you are going to argue is that the PS3 had a huge disadvantage due to its later launch in Europe, but that's exactly the same situation. Had the PS3 launched worldwide, its numbers wouldn't have looked any better, because there weren't enough consoles available anyway. The staggered launch didn't hurt the PS3 at all, just like it didn't hurt the PS2.

don't make me ban you. I know how to abuse my power as well as anyone else. Besides, we look at games with the regions lined up so I don't see why we shouldn't look at consoles with their regions lined up. Either way, providing an alternate point of view (especially when it shows how dominating Nintendo is) is always good

ROFL. I'll remember that.



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thismeintiel on 19 February 2010

Considering it's late here and I'm lazy, I'll ask you guys. How many Wii's will Nintendo have to sell this year to stay ahead of PS2?



 

nordlead on 19 February 2010
thismeintiel said:
Considering it's late here and I'm lazy, I'll ask you guys. How many Wii's will Nintendo have to sell this year to stay ahead of PS2?

depending on how you want to look at it, 0.




If you drop a PS3 right on top of a Wii, it would definitely defeat it. Not so sure about the Xbox360. - mancandy
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fwap on 19 February 2010

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