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TheThunder on 24 June 2009
yo_john117 said:

Give the 360 a year or 2 and it will be on top as the most played game system.

It will probably will be after this Holiday season ;)



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Strategyking92 on 24 June 2009
PullusPardus said:
rafichamp said:
It will soon be the PS3

unless they release JRPGs in it ,lower the price and actually start listen to what people want.

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(I'm sorry)

They need more than JRPG's in america. God of war 3 and a price cut come christmas would do it for a while..



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ironman on 24 June 2009

The PS2? how are they getting these numbers? Are they looking at the most played? Because poorer nations would certainly be helping the PS2.



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TheThunder on 24 June 2009

^it's just US and BTW PS2 has 3 times the counsels of the 360 in the states so it's reasonable.



ironman on 24 June 2009

Ah, so it is the most played.



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Reasonable on 24 June 2009
Mr Khan said:

I still find it hard to believe, especially since, in the same article, they asserted that the 360 sold more software, which has been disproven has it not?

I find it easy to believe.  Just becasue the 360/PS3/Wii are avaialble doesn't mean people instantly shut away their PS2s.

There are supposedly 40M PS2s in US vs 7M PS3 and 16 or so 360s.  Pretty easy to see how they'd still get playtime.  I'm in UK but my kids will still pull out the PS2 even though we have a Wii and a PS3 (and the PS3 in BC too) but that would fairly count as playtime for PS2.

When you consider based on numbers there must be plenty of US households with a PS2  but no next gen consoles, and others like me must have PS2s knocking around that still get playtime on favourite games, it's not to hard to see this being plausible.

 



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ironman on 24 June 2009
Reasonable said:
Mr Khan said:

I still find it hard to believe, especially since, in the same article, they asserted that the 360 sold more software, which has been disproven has it not?

I find it easy to believe.  Just becasue the 360/PS3/Wii are avaialble doesn't mean people instantly shut away their PS2s.

There are supposedly 40M PS2s in US vs 7M PS3 and 16 or so 360s.  Pretty easy to see how they'd still get playtime.  I'm in UK but my kids will still pull out the PS2 even though we have a Wii and a PS3 (and the PS3 in BC too) but that would fairly count as playtime for PS2.

When you consider based on numbers there must be plenty of US households with a PS2  but no next gen consoles, and others like me must have PS2s knocking around that still get playtime on favourite games, it's not to hard to see this being plausible.

 

I concure with that assesment. I just set up my xbox two weeks ago and have been playing it off and on. And it seems to me that the study is referancing the  most played console, not the highest selling. 



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Reasonable on 24 June 2009
ironman said:
Reasonable said:
Mr Khan said:

I still find it hard to believe, especially since, in the same article, they asserted that the 360 sold more software, which has been disproven has it not?

I find it easy to believe.  Just becasue the 360/PS3/Wii are avaialble doesn't mean people instantly shut away their PS2s.

There are supposedly 40M PS2s in US vs 7M PS3 and 16 or so 360s.  Pretty easy to see how they'd still get playtime.  I'm in UK but my kids will still pull out the PS2 even though we have a Wii and a PS3 (and the PS3 in BC too) but that would fairly count as playtime for PS2.

When you consider based on numbers there must be plenty of US households with a PS2  but no next gen consoles, and others like me must have PS2s knocking around that still get playtime on favourite games, it's not to hard to see this being plausible.

 

I concure with that assesment. I just set up my xbox two weeks ago and have been playing it off and on. And it seems to me that the study is referancing the  most played console, not the highest selling. 

Yup, it's gotta be utilization rather than sales.  In terms of use I'd be surprised is the PS2 wasn't still tops globally, and by a fair margin at that.  Of course its being helped by the fact that this gen is so split across three seemingly viable consoles.  I'm also not surprised the 360 gets more use that Wii despite install base disadvantage as that fits for utilization, too.

 



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ironman on 24 June 2009
Reasonable said:
ironman said:
Reasonable said:
Mr Khan said:

I still find it hard to believe, especially since, in the same article, they asserted that the 360 sold more software, which has been disproven has it not?

I find it easy to believe.  Just becasue the 360/PS3/Wii are avaialble doesn't mean people instantly shut away their PS2s.

There are supposedly 40M PS2s in US vs 7M PS3 and 16 or so 360s.  Pretty easy to see how they'd still get playtime.  I'm in UK but my kids will still pull out the PS2 even though we have a Wii and a PS3 (and the PS3 in BC too) but that would fairly count as playtime for PS2.

When you consider based on numbers there must be plenty of US households with a PS2  but no next gen consoles, and others like me must have PS2s knocking around that still get playtime on favourite games, it's not to hard to see this being plausible.

 

I concure with that assesment. I just set up my xbox two weeks ago and have been playing it off and on. And it seems to me that the study is referancing the  most played console, not the highest selling. 

Yup, it's gotta be utilization rather than sales.  In terms of use I'd be surprised is the PS2 wasn't still tops globally, and by a fair margin at that.  Of course its being helped by the fact that this gen is so split across three seemingly viable consoles.  I'm also not surprised the 360 gets more use that Wii despite install base disadvantage as that fits for utilization, too.

 

Out of curiosity, I wonder who would come out on top if the install bases were all equal? If one could shrink the number of Wii, PS2, and 360s to the same # of consoles as the PS3 using a random sampling across the board. Or, one could look at the amount played vs. the # of instal, and find an average...meh, it's late, I should be sleeping.



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selnor on 24 June 2009
rafichamp said:
If there was no pirated games for the PS2, I wouldnt be surprised to see its software outsell the 360s on a weekly basis


I dont see how. To those that say Europe loves PS2 still. You havent seen our local game shops.

Barely find 2nd hand PS2 games let alone brand new in shops.

Game our biggest UK distributor had 7 PS2 games on a small stand last Thursday. That was it. There is just no room with Wii and 360 taking the majority of space followed by DS and PSP then lastly in it's corner is PS3.

We just dont really have PS2 on sale here much. Unless you go carboot or mainly specialist 2nd hand shops. But from new you'd be lucky to find a shop with 20+ games for PS2 brand new.