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Carl2291 said:  And it hurts me to know that not one of the home consoles this gen will even get close to the PS2's sales of 21 Million plus. Edit: Sorry. 23 Million plus... According to VGC the PS2 sits at 23,098,857 in Japan. Awesome!

Well you can directly thank 3rd parties for that.  I assume PS2 would've turned out similarly had they treated it like they've treated Wii, probably worse even.

Well lots of third parties were succeeded on ps2 so...

That's because 3rd parties put basically everything on PS2, from day zero.  Imagine what last gen would've been like in Japan had FFX been announced for GameCube and DQVIII announced for GBA, before PS2 even launched...

Besides which, there were plenty of 3rd party failures on PS2 too.  More than there have been on Wii actually.

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201011/08035343.html

worldwide sales numbers of a majority of consoles, as follows:

Game Boy__________118,000,000
Wonderswan__________3,500,000
PSP ________________62,000,000
DS _______________ 132,000,000

Famicom/NES________62,910,000

Megadrive/Genesis ____34,000,000
Super Famicom/SNES__49,000,000
PC Engine ___________10,000,000

3DO_________________2,000,000
Sega Saturn___________8,700,000
Playstation__________102,000,000
Nintendo 64__________33,000,000

Dreamcast ___________11,000,000
Playstation 2 ________120,000,000
Game Cube __________22,000,000
Xbox________________24,000,000

Xbox 360 ____________41,000,000
Playstation 3__________42,000,000
Wii _________________74,000,000

Yeah, some of those numbers are pretty suspect.  They came from TOSE Software, but they never sourced them to anyone.  Some of my problems below...

• PC Engine only sold 3.5m iirc in Japan, TG16 was a relative flop in America, it never released in Europe... so how the hell'd they get to 10 million?  Were Duo sales actually that high?

• The Saturn figure seems low too, it sold almost 6m Japan alone... so only less than 3m for the rest of the world?  Seems unlikely, more likely it's around 10m.

• PS2 seems REALLY low. Like 10-15m light.

• PS3 ahead of 360.  lol.

The article reveals that Tose have developed 1,857 titles in their 31-year history.

Consumer Games - 896
Mobile - 699
Arcade/Other - 262

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/11/09/october_sales_chart/

These Were the Top games of October

• 1. Pokemon Black & White (Pokemon, DS): 886,845 (released 9/18, total 4,296,302)
• 2. Super Mario Collection Special Pack (Nintendo, Wii): 403,166 (released 10/21)
• 3. God Eater Burst (Namco Bandai, PSP): 267,178 (released 10/28)
• 4. Winning Eleven 2011 (Konami, PS3): 229,076 (released 10/28)
• 5. K-On: After School Live (Sega, PSP): 219,393 (released 9/30)
• 6. Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded (Square Enix, DS): 183,883 (released 10/7)
• 7. Kirby's Epic Yarn (Nintendo, Wii): 173,107 (released 10/14)
• 8. Macross F Hybrid Pack (Namco Bandai, PS3): 162,178 (released 10/7)
• 9. Wii Party (Nintendo, Wii): 127,399 (released 7/8, total 1,098,405)
• 10. Lord of Arcana (Square Enix, PSP): 126,199 (released 10/14)