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robzo100 on 19 February 2011
John_Doe said:

how i miss hardware from launch graphs!


I second this.  I would love to have that information readily available.



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trestres on 19 February 2011
Conegamer said:
trestres said:
Conegamer said:

Yeah, it's still miles ahead. probably by about a year in America, 5 months in EMEAA and about a month behind in Japan

I believe it's around 8 months ahead overall...


Are you serious?

Why? Is that wrong?

Yes, that's wrong :/



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Conegamer on 19 February 2011
trestres said:
Conegamer said:
trestres said:
Conegamer said:

Yeah, it's still miles ahead. probably by about a year in America, 5 months in EMEAA and about a month behind in Japan

I believe it's around 8 months ahead overall...


Are you serious?

Why? Is that wrong?

Yes, that's wrong :/

Do you have better figures then?



 

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postofficebuddy on 19 February 2011
Conegamer said:
trestres said:
Conegamer said:
trestres said:
Conegamer said:

Yeah, it's still miles ahead. probably by about a year in America, 5 months in EMEAA and about a month behind in Japan

I believe it's around 8 months ahead overall...


Are you serious?

Why? Is that wrong?

Yes, that's wrong :/

Do you have better figures then?


VGChartz Hardware data for the period 27th Feb 2000 to 19th Jun 2004:

Console PS2
Japan
16,000,001

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 27th Feb 2000 to 12th Feb 2011:

Console Wii
Japan
11,482,185

LOL at the PS2 number. And that accounts for Wii having 1 extra holiday season.



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Conegamer on 19 February 2011
postofficebuddy said:
Conegamer said:
trestres said:
Conegamer said:
trestres said:
Conegamer said:

Yeah, it's still miles ahead. probably by about a year in America, 5 months in EMEAA and about a month behind in Japan

I believe it's around 8 months ahead overall...


Are you serious?

Why? Is that wrong?

Yes, that's wrong :/

Do you have better figures then?


VGChartz Hardware data for the period 27th Feb 2000 to 19th Jun 2004:

Console PS2
Japan
16,000,001

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 27th Feb 2000 to 12th Feb 2011:

Console Wii
Japan
11,482,185

LOL at the PS2 number. And that accounts for Wii having 1 extra holiday season.

That one person...

OK, maybe it's more like a year...but still, the Wii is around 5-6mil ahead overall, and I expect it to stay there until 2012/2013!



 

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9009pc on 19 February 2011
postofficebuddy said:

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 02nd Jan 2000 to 12th Feb 2005:

Console PS2
Total
81,237,581

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 02nd Jan 2000 to 12th Feb 2011:

Console Wii
Total
84,993,939

Kind of a quick and dirty comparisson but there you go. Subtract about 2 million for PS2's extra 8 months in Japan.  PS2 sold close to 19 million in 2005. PS2 was showing some insane legs going into its twilight years. It was still pulling consistent 200k plus weeks basically up until 2008.

I may have got this wrong but I am doing it year by year and the ps2 would be at 19 of june 2004 if it was on the market the same length of time as the wii has. 

which brings it to 63,493,619
PS2
year 1 27 mar 2000 to 3 mar 2001 7,227,310
year 2 4 mar 2001 to 2 mar 2002 17,448,635
year 3 3 mar 2002 to 1 mar 2003 21,453,530
year 4 2 mar 2003to 6 mar 2004 19,085,049
2.5 months 7 mar 2004 to 19 june 2004 3,279,095
total 68,493,61

wii 
year 1 19 nov 2006 to 24 nov 2007 15,038,868
year 2 25 nov 2007 to 22 nov 2008 21,421,973

year 3 23 nov 2008 to 28 nov 2009 21,192,363

year 4 29 nov 2009 to 27 nov 2010 19,751,703

2.5 months  28 nov 2010 to 12 feb 2011 7,589,032
total 84,993,939

I have a graph here on my screen but it wont paste into my post so, you put the data into a spreadsheet and create it yourselves.

it's amazing how similar they look.



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Chairman-Mao on 19 February 2011

Its ahead lifetime but it'll be a long time before the Wii hits 150 million (and it won't)



postofficebuddy on 19 February 2011
9009pc said:
postofficebuddy said:

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 02nd Jan 2000 to 12th Feb 2005:

Console PS2
Total
81,237,581

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 02nd Jan 2000 to 12th Feb 2011:

Console Wii
Total
84,993,939

Kind of a quick and dirty comparisson but there you go. Subtract about 2 million for PS2's extra 8 months in Japan.  PS2 sold close to 19 million in 2005. PS2 was showing some insane legs going into its twilight years. It was still pulling consistent 200k plus weeks basically up until 2008.

I may have got this wrong but I am doing it year by year and the ps2 would be at 19 of june 2004 if it was on the market the same length of time as the wii has. 

which brings it to 63,493,619
PS2
year 1 27 mar 2000 to 3 mar 2001 7,227,310
year 2 4 mar 2001 to 2 mar 2002 17,448,635
year 3 3 mar 2002 to 1 mar 2003 21,453,530
year 4 2 mar 2003to 6 mar 2004 19,085,049
2.5 months 7 mar 2004 to 19 june 2004 3,279,095
total 68,493,61

wii 
year 1 19 nov 2006 to 24 nov 2007 15,038,868
year 2 25 nov 2007 to 22 nov 2008 21,421,973

year 3 23 nov 2008 to 28 nov 2009 21,192,363

year 4 29 nov 2009 to 27 nov 2010 19,751,703

2.5 months  28 nov 2010 to 12 feb 2011 7,589,032
total 84,993,939

I have a graph here on my screen but it wont paste into my post so, you put the data into a spreadsheet and create it yourselves.

it's amazing how similar they look.


You're going off of the Japanese launch. That's why I said subtract about 2 million for the extra 9 months there. It didn't launch in the west until October and November 2000. Although I think I should have lined up weeks slightly better since it wasn't the exact same week in the west.



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Kasz216 on 19 February 2011

I think a more interesting question is... how is the Wii doing right now vs the PS2, in month to month sales aligned.

Is it still above the PS2 overall or is it below... is the PS2 catching up?   The Wii seems to be doing weak, but it may just be due to the PS3 and 360 not sucking it up like the Gamecube and XBox.

 

Edit: For just this last week it's 150,000 for wii vs  378,000 for PS2 in 2005 for example.  Suggesting a PS3 "comeback" unless I screwed something up, which is totally possible since i did it rather half heartidly.



9009pc on 19 February 2011
postofficebuddy said:

You're going off of the Japanese launch. That's why I said subtract about 2 million for the extra 9 months there. It didn't launch in the west until October and November 2000. Although I think I should have lined up weeks slightly better since it wasn't the exact same week in the west.

so thats why the ps2 did so little in the first year only Japan most of the time. nice to know thanks. apologies for not reading your post properly. 



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