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Do You Think Many People went from PS2 to Wii?

Yes, exclusively! 53 32.52%
 
No, at least not exclusively. 60 36.81%
 
No, most went to PS3/360 instead. 50 30.67%
 
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waron on 05 January 2010

worldwide - yes, since majority of ps2 gamers(80-85% at least) were casuals. most of ps360 owners are xbox and pc gamers.
japan - most ps2 gamers gone portable, switched to wii or stayed with ps2



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Cheebee on 05 January 2010

Well, if they didn't go to Wii, then I guess about 70 million people stopped gaming. XD Basically what Chrizum said.



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Cypher1980 on 05 January 2010

My previously PS2 owning friends are roughly split 50/50 PS3 and 360

However we have all bought a Wii.



Mr. sickVisionz on 05 January 2010

I say no. I don't think that the Gamecube inspired many PS2 owners to go with Nintendo the next time around.



Bamboleo on 05 January 2010

I know many people going to wii and then get a 360...



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Avarice28 on 05 January 2010
Mr. sickVisionz said:
I say no. I don't think that the Gamecube inspired many PS2 owners to go with Nintendo the next time around.

I was thinking the same thing.

Kasz216 on 05 January 2010

Either that or gaming has shrunk quite a bit as a hobby this generation vs people that played last generation.

If you assume everyone was around this generation who was around last generation... or even most people. You'd have to believe this to be the case.



Reasonable on 05 January 2010

I can't vote as you're missing a selection for Yes, lots, but a few also got HD consoles.

Personally, I think it's telling that the Nintendo / Sony marketshare (as clearly shown in Source's analysis of marketshare changes from this gen to last) have more or less seen exactly matching marketshare changes - i.e. while I'm not sure how many PS2 users got a Wii, it does seem like a huge chunk of the demographic that would buy (or already had a PS2) invested in a Wii.



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Kasz216 on 05 January 2010
CGI-Quality said:
TWRoO said:
Yes of course.

By Nintendo's most recent figures (mid-2009) about 20% of Wii owners didn't own a 6th gen console (some of those may have skipped 6th gen or been handheld/PC gamers beforehand, so not all are new gamers, but that is not important for the OPs question)

80% of 60 million is 48 million, MOST of those have to be PS2 owners simply because there were not enough GC and XB owners to spread around. (not all of them will have bought a 7th gen console yet)

I am very doubtful many XB owners will have moved over to the Wii, but a lot of GC owners will have. As a guesstimate I would say of that 48 million:

- 5 million were multi-console owners last gen (most multi console owners last gen will have had a PS2)
- 1 million were XBox exclusive owners (could easily be less than that, I don't think the audiences mix well)
- 12 million were GC exclusive owners (many of the multi owners will have had GCs too)
- That leaves 30 million that were PS2 exclusive owners.

I would say most XB owners (that have moved) moved to X360, If we say ~18-19 million XB owners have already moved to 7th gen Probably 13 million of those moved to X360, less than 1mil to Wii and the rest to PS3.
So X360 owners (35 million of them... I am not including the last few weeks as it made it easier to work out Wii percentages) are made up of:
- Some new gamers (say 2 million)
- Some multi 6th gen owners (5 million... most will have been PS2/XB owners)
- 9 million XB exclusive owners (13 million - 4 million that also had a PS2)
- 2 million exclusive GC owners
- therefore 17 million PS2 exclusive owners.

PS3 owners will be made up of mostly PS2 owners (but then the Wii and X360 are also mostly PS2 owners.. just not as "mostly" as the PS3)
Lets say, out of the 29 million PS3s:
- 3 million new owners (more attractive to previous non gamers than the X360, mostly due to Blu-Ray)
- Multi 6th gen console owners (errr...3 million?)
- 4 million XB exclusive owners
- 2 million GC exclusive
- That leaves 17 million PS2 excl. owners

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So:
Wii - 30 + 4 million of the multi owners = 34 million PS2 owners have a Wii.
360 - 17 + 4 million of the multi owners = 21 million PS2 owners have an X360
PS3 - 17 + 3 million of the multi owners = 20 million PS2 owners have a PS3

All this is of course just an estimate, the only facts in there are those from Nintendo about new gamers, the rest is number crunching based on how many of last gens owners I think will have moved on (which is less in %age for PS2 as it is still popular and selling) and my assumption that XBox owners and GC owners don't mix much (and thus not many XB owners moved to Wii except those few who buy multiple consoles)

Even so, yes I believe more PS2 owners have moved to X360/PS3 than to Wii, but it is not by the margin some of you might think (41:34 being my results... some of those will be crossovers though by owning more than 1 console from this gen)

Much respect. A very well thoughout post.

IMO, they split between the 3. So exclusively, no.

By exlcuislvy i'd guess he means that the largest precentage of PS2 owners are Wii owners... and only own the Wii console.

I think exclusivity is supposed to indicate whether or not their is multiple console ownership.  Which I believe is higher this generation.  Then again, that's from Nielson who thinks the Median household income for people who play videogames is 70,000K in the US.  Which is just sooo wrong.  (That's a 20K difference.)


It should be noted that Nintendo's real success with the Wii wasn't getting new casuals to buy the system... so much as new casuals USING the system.

 

Say Billy's mom buys her son a Wii, like she did a PS2 the generation before.... the difference?  Billy's mom is going to be using that Wii too.


I was just at a party the otherday where a bunch of Mom's were pumped about getting Wii-Fit for x-mas. 

 

 



riecsou on 05 January 2010
Cheebee said:

Well, if they didn't go to Wii, then I guess about 70 million people stopped gaming. XD Basically what Chrizum said.

Well you are "probably" right. PS2 total sales 134 Millions, total Wii sold 65 millions, so there are "probably" 70 millions people who stopped gaming.

Edit: I think that many of them bought a Wii, but I doubt it to be exclusively.