Predictions for when PS2 will start outshipping Wii again? PS2 actually managed to outship Xbox 360 for a couple of quarters last year.
| bluthunder said: Predictions for when PS2 will start outshipping Wii again? PS2 actually managed to outship Xbox 360 for a couple of quarters last year. |
this year, 2011.
PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !
PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !
| John_Doe said: how i miss hardware from launch graphs! |
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| robzo100 said:
I don't see any reason why Wii can't do what the PS2 has done/is doing once the generation goes away. If the Wii is 99 bucks by the time the next gen comes then it can still be a hot seller for ppl not willing to dish out big bucks for the next gen machines. |
This is really key, and what will ultimately determine if Wii ever passes PS2. Nintendo's past precedent also makes it hard to gauge how they'll handle the Wii wind down too... N64 and GC were basically just dropped, arguably even some months before their successors released. On the other hand, both NES and SNES had 1st party strong support several years out from their successor systems launching, and both even got smaller/cheaper system redesigns and renewed advertising campaigns to go with them. You'd think with Wii's record breaking success, they'd go for the NES/SNES model, but then that's something they haven't really been shown as capable of or even interested in recently. Their handheld/portable record is all over the map too, and too often influenced by other factors to really draw a good parallel (VB's implosion, Pokemon reviving GB and bringing a "2nd cycle", GBA delayed due to GBC's success, DS rushed to meet PSP head on, etc).
I think the other aspect is how Wii's handled in the smaller markets outside JP/US/UK/FR/DE/etc. I know recently Nintendo's made a major commitment in Korea (which has sort of payed off, at least relative to Sony/MS) and they put a lot of promotional and localization dollars into various other smaller markets to great success (Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, etc). Following the Portugal takeover, the next "target" is supposedly Brazil, which could be a major growth sector. I'm also curious to see if Nintendo ever plans to enter other potentially major markets directly, like Russia, Mexico or India. And if iQue ever figures out how to launch Wii in China.
| bluthunder said: Predictions for when PS2 will start outshipping Wii again? PS2 actually managed to outship Xbox 360 for a couple of quarters last year. |
Worldwide: 2012
North America: never
Can someone please tell for long the PS2 was at the $200 price point?
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jarrod said:
North America: never |
I don't think he means lifetime but outshipping on any given year ( at least that's what I understand when he references the 360).
In that case I stick with this year as I started above.
PS2 sold 18.19 million units Year 6.
There's no way the Wii will sell that much this year...
PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !
PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !
We only have a limited experience when it comes to game systems selling for spectacularly long lifetimes. Meaning we are being too rigid by expecting a game console to sell over a 150 million only by taking a similar path that PS2 did.
Wii could very well sell not as well during it's first half (first 5 years during the gen. at the time) but then have a better second half (the last 5 years, selling once the next gen has already started). It's hard to say. Wii is such a different kind of machine than PS2, so the pattern should be expected to not be similar if anything.
| robzo100 said:
We only have a limited experience when it comes to game systems selling for spectacularly long lifetimes. Meaning we are being too rigid by expecting a game console to sell over a 150 million only by taking a similar path that PS2 did. Wii could very well sell not as well during it's first half (first 5 years during the gen. at the time) but then have a better second half (the last 5 years, selling once the next gen has already started). It's hard to say. Wii is such a different kind of machine than PS2, so the pattern should be expected to not be similar if anything. |
Sorry but that's impossible.
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