He said "???" because your post made absolutely no sense.  No offense if English isn't your native tongue, but it does not make sense. 

Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!

"There's no way. I since some fad like traits in the Wii."

"There's no way. I sense some fad-like traits in the Wii."

Incorrect, but not nonsensical. Just an unfortunate typo which, in a very brief post, made it appear to be gibberish.

Indeed, the PS2 numbers will be impressive until something gives a match-up worth noting.

http://www.vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=All&cons2=PS2&reg2=All&cons3=DS&reg3=All&align=1&weekly=1

Take a look at this chart. Note the DS line, which seems to be having a better lifespan so far than the PS2. The DS, entering its 3rd 'real holiday' (first ones are usually short for demand so don't get an accurate sales reading) is still rising in average weekly sales. This same point in the PS2's life span, it has peaked, and the overall longhaul for the PS2 after this compared point in time is a steady downfall, slow but surely.

The DS is more fact now, due to its increasing popularity and still decent demand. The challenge for a video game platform to surpass the PS2 would likely by the DS at some point.


The Wii, however, take a look at the outstanding weekly sales compared to the PS2. The Wii is roughly selling 5-6 times as fast as the PS2 did during the period before the first major holiday season.

While the Wii has been out for not even a year, its sales blow away the DS so far, the only real competitor by proven timespan to make a dent in PS2's title.


The real question will amount to whether or not a Wii revision occurs. I have always stood firmly on the idea that PS2 revisions and reading errors (replacements) really fluff up this near 120 million sales record.

Back to the real question, will Wii hardware fail and force consumers to buy new consoles and improve 'sales figures'? Will Wii2.0 be released as a smaller version with native 720p and DVD support, as well as larger flash space? This can also fluff numbers equally as well.

 PS2 has been available in China since December of 2004.

India I'm not sure on. 

Nintendo makes quality products. Their systmes, controllers, and accesseries typically last and don't break. If Wii's were produced and made like Sony's PS2, then everyone who owns a wii would have to buy one or two more to replace their broken piece of crap wiis.

If that happened (which it won't becuase Nintendo makes quality hardware and accesseries), the Wii would sell double the current install base of the PS2 by 2010. lol.

I think that you are heavily overestimating the amount of failed PS2s. From what I understand, the number of failures was (unlike the 360) unfortunately high but still within industry standards. Let's say 3-5%. (That's 1 in every 20, certainly enough to make for a lot of complaints!)  And this is NOT 3-5% of 120 million; it's 3-5% of the early-model PS2s -- maybe the first 10-20 million. 5% of 20 million = 1 million.

120 million sold becomes 119 million sold OH NOES!~

And do you honestly think the Wii is likely to get smaller? Nintendo has a long history of updating their handhelds and not their main consoles; I expect this trend to continue.

 I have never known anyone that ha shad to replace a Nintendo product.  I still have a working, original 89 (?) GameBoy, as well as an original 1987 (?) NES.  While I still play the NES (mostly Dr. Mario, Mario 3, Duck Hunt and TMNT) the Gameboy is more of a shelf item.  But it still turns on and plays.

I have had every Nintendo product, excluding the DS and Advance/Pocket since the originals and have never had any one of them even hiccup, it would seem.

I'm on my third PS2.  Both previous ones I've had stopped reading discs - extremely annoying.  But you can't not buy another PS2 because you'll waste your $500 worth of actual games on hand.  Lovely renewal investment, and feeds Sony's numbers. 

@MusicAddict911

see post by facher83

Updating their handhelds means they update hardware regardless.  You seem to state this as a means to suggest Wii will not be updated, but I can only see that as being for updating.  Management at Nintendo has been quite a bit different since N64/GameCube.

Nintendo has a new president since the GCN release.  Yes, I can see that trend changing.

My question would be, where has Sony released factual evidence on how many units fail?   If we go by my personal experience, 2 of my 3 have died, but beyond warranty.  Not to mention, Sony had a lawsuit against them forcing them to replace units.  That's a nice record to have.

 By the way , 5% of 120 million is 6 million, not 1.. I honestly see the figure more like 40% replacement when you consider double-buys, people who bought a slim that already have an original, actual replacements due to failures, etc.  My figure, 40% (pulled out of the air just as credible as yours) puts PS2 at actual sales of 72 million.  This stat would compare to NES life time sales.