omg, ps3 sales finally came back up. hopefully the sale stays consistent with ps2.

It's this thread a little redundant?

I mean is you wanna compare how PS3 is faring compared to PS2 at the same point in the lifetime, this site does provide some very handy graphs of it's own data which I suppose you go go look at every week if that's what you're into.

Charts a whole lotta like this one:

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=PS2&reg1=All&cons2=PS3&reg2=All&cons3=PS2&reg3=All&weeks=90

 Nintendo will never reach PS2 success until 3rd parties pledge their alleigance like they did in the PS2 era. However, remember that ps2 had 70% marketshare and Nintendo is yet to make 50%

This has been explained a whole lot of times, but here it goes:

PS2 launched in April 2000 in Japan, Oktober 2000 in America and November 2000 in Others
PS3 launced in November 2006 in Japan and America and in March 2007 in Others.

So you have 7 months PS2 in Japan only, and it was heavily supply constrained.

If thats the case then what the hell is the Wii doing? Obliterating it? Making the achievements of the PS2 look small and meaningless in comparison?

Those, who don`t like THIS comparison, just THINK that this is about:
"how well PS3 will do in 2008, compared to ps2 in 2001, how close PS3 will go to 16 mln. consoles sold". AND LEAVE the THREAD.
You have YOUR OPINION i have MINE OPINION.

For ME console life STARTS, when it FIRST time launched.
For YOU, when it launched in ALL regions(even if x360 officially was launched in India, China or Brasil only AFTER 1 year).
Just because console wasn`t launched in USA or Europe, it doesn`t mean, that console`s LIFE hasn`t STARTED -> in MY OPINION.
You are FREE to think OTERWISE.
Now you can leave. =)

I don't wanna sound like a dick or nothing but here are a few numbers i've dug up from online about the video game market size:

Worldwide Total Game Hardware & Software Sales
2002 - $20.7 billion
2003 - $23.2 billion
2005 - $29 billion

Not to mention the boom in market growth from 2006 to now. We're talking about a market that's 40 to 50% bigger than it was in 2001.

Doesn't that make the fact that the PS3 sales of today are barely edging out sales numbers from 2001 seems like a "not very impressive" accomplishement?

Crazzyman, you stated earlier in the thread that it was like that because it was the time when the console was out for a full year ww, and now you are saying its because of the first time it launched? flawed logic, and you are contradicting yourself...

Thing is, 2001 was a year when PS2 sales had not bloomed (much like PS3's 2007), and they started to get really great in 2002, much like the growth PS3 had year to year. If you align launches of both PS3 and PS2 in each region, you will see PS3 is lagging behind in all three of them, It's just common sense to compare 2001 to 2007...

Besides, PS3 had launched in others as early as 2006 (I think it was Korea, so it had a full year in others in 2007 (besides, Europe Launch of PS3 made up lost sales of january and february because the hype was still high and the timing was right.
You can't say Europe/Others is reason enough to change the year for it is two regions against one, that are comparable to the year before.

And besides Europe/others is the PS3s best region, so it can compare the best against PS2s 2002, yet you are using it as a excuse to use 2001 numbers. Time will tell, and if I'm correct next year PS3 will see a growth very much like PS2's 2002 to 2003.

... I lost myself reading this thread again, some guys get banned, I'll try to not read again...

ignotr these haters crazzy.
them all full ov pure shit 4 sure