Millennium on 22 December 2008
I find it hard to believe myself -not as any slight to the Wii, but simply from sheer PS2 numbers- but the charts are painting a different picture. The Wii has been outselling the PS2 since Week 2, if we only count the PS2s sold during the corresponding part of its lifetime. The only time the PS2 ever had the advantage there was Week 1. Even week-by-week the Wii has beaten the correponding week for the PS2 well over 80% of the time.
If this continues for long enough that the Wii's life is as long as the PS2's, then yeah; the Wii will inevitably outsell the PS2. But will it continue for that long? I'm not so sure. Among other things, I don't think any of the current generation of consoles -no, not even the PS3 with its "10-year-plan" BS- is going to have a lifetime nearly as long as the PS2 has had. That will doubtless hamper things.
I wouldn't be surprised if, by the end of the Wii's life, it sold more units than the PS2 had sold in the same amount of time. But I don't think any of this generation -not Wii, not 360, and not even PS3- is going to be around long enough to outsell the PS2 in total.
Complexity is not depth. Machismo is not maturity. Obsession is not dedication. Tedium is not challenge. Support gaming: support the Wii.
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What do I hate about modern gaming? I hate tedium replacing challenge, complexity replacing depth, and domination replacing entertainment. I hate the outsourcing of mechanics to physics textbooks, art direction to photocopiers, and story to cheap Hollywood screenwriters. I hate the confusion of obsession with dedication, style with substance, new with gimmicky, old with obsolete, new with evolutionary, and old with time-tested.
There is much to hate about modern gaming. That is why I support the Wii.
