sony fanboys and nintendo haters rejoice. never like ps2. wii did amazing well without 3rd party support and inferior graphics.

1 million to go?  You do know that PS2 shipments are 155M now plus right?

were was i when this thread went live in 20........ o yeah. i took a 4 month break.

well next gen. consoles surely have a chance but not a big one of toppling the giant in the sky.

Some people (john lucas and Avinash, for example...unforgettable, lol)  back in 2008, actually thought the Wii would sell over 200 million units!

I'm on a website founded on the idea of offering free retail to consumer sales information.  Figured I might as well go by those figures.

Yep, I was one of those people.  Still think it was possible if Wii Music had been another Wii Sports/Wii Fit 40m+ type hit instead of the bastard child of the lot.  As far as having the casual market's attention, Wii never really recovered from that.  WSR was good and NSMBW sold fantastically but beyond those Nintendo took their eyes off the casual market (they did continue to put out weaker efforts like Wii Party/Wii Play Motion) and focused on 2D platformers instead of motion based virtual family play which made Wii a success in the first place.    Ubisoft grabbed what was left of this market with Just Dance but it was too little too late to revive the Wii's fortunes.  Also Kinect (and to a much lesser extent Move) cut into Wii's hype/attention in a major way.   Kinect hasn't managed to maintain people's attention and now the market has shifted to iPads.

RE: PS2 - I would say no game system in the future can touch it now unless we include the iPad as a gaming system or Android.   Certainly the next gen from Sony/MS/Nintendo will (most likely) fail to reach the highs the even this gen let alone the PS2's.   Home gaming consoles are becoming a niche market - at least, in their current form.

The PS2 has been undertracked for many years here on VGC. Though it's on purpose because ioi can't seem to know exactly where all those PS2s are being shipped so he prefers not to do anything about it.

Total units manufactured (this includes dev kits, debug kits, demo units, replacement units, etc...) is now at 158.2 million.  Shipped units will be a few million less.   Quarterly units have dropped to a few hundred thousand.

The DS is at 152 million shipped (as of last June) with at least 2.5 million expected over the next few months.

DS has yet to drop to a $99 price tag.  I suspect by the end of 2013 to the middle of 2014, the DS will have taken the lead.

Sony shipped 2.8 million consoles last quarter (PS3+PS2). How do you know the breakdown?

This, give credit where credit is due. I love looking at these old threads and seeing how wrong some of the fans were. And some still make excuses and wont eat crow