^ @ WereKitten and Alby

Very good points indeed. :)

This generation is a very strange and different one.

That's what I love about VGChartz. So many perspectives. :)

 Probably RE5

 Big difference, PS2 had a year advance over its competitors to build up marketshare, Wii entered the market a year behind one of its competitors an  has since then thundered to almost 50% marketshare, in the face of frequent supply issues, in fact WW it has sold faster than both the DS and the PS2

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=All&cons2=PS2&reg2=All&cons3=DS&reg3=All&weeks=123

If I had wanted to call you a fanboy I would have done it blatantly and not used a cunning veil of words.  Your post was pretty balanced then you spoilt it with the last sentence before which is a shame as I realised you were trying to be objective in your opinion.  I didn't pin point you to have any problem mate and you more than entitled to have your own opinion.  I just wanted to highlight that one sentence (at least for me) ruined the perspective in your post.

I used to be of the opinion that the Wii was pointless in debate (its a phenom) but unfortunately whether for good or bad (IMO) the Wii will change console gaming and its impact will be felt for a long time into the future.

@Slowmo

There is plenty of wii prejudice going on in these forums but that doesn't mean that everyone that says something that may be consider negative regarding the wii is anti-wii.


As for Ninendo changing the face of gaming it's already clear to see

Nintendo set out for a different market and accomplished that.

Now MS jumps on the bandwagon and started shouting "We are casual too" after proclaiming to be hardcore.

MS or Sony (or both) laughed and call the wii a gimmick. Now MS is gonna do the same and pretend like they always knew it would work.

Processing power of consoles and gigaflops and all that rubbish was the talk of the last gen and the beginning of this gen. The wii came along and turned all that to hogwash, the vast majority of people that are buying consoles don't care about that crap.
Are MS and Sony going to start all this "mine is bigger than yours" talk next gen? We shall see.

Yes, but now it's hovering quite stably around 50% and supply issues are over. But it must be repeated that that 50% means an absolute number, as I said and you showed, greater than what PS2 got in the same time, this means that this gen current user base is alredy HUGE, even after 3and 1/2 years for XB360 and only 2 and 1/2 for Wii and PS, and it still has wide growth potential, retiring too early would mean kicking away big possible sales and it would be particularly detrimental to Sony or MS, as they must recover bigger initial investments.

 Thing is Nintendo's Sales arc for the Wii is much larger than that of that 360 and PS3,  PS3 and 360 will see tapering demand before the Wii, the Wii for example has yet to see a price drop or an alternative color come out, unlike its competitors

Actually the Wii is already seeing huge tapering demand in its home market where it is selling 50% less in 2009 than in 2008 so far and 2008 already sold less than 2007.

^But it keeps selling great in EU, and spectacularly in NA.
A hint about the reason: there's a correlation between Wii sales and Adult Obesity Incidence :)

In others words, Wii owners are Fat !

LOL