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Kantor on 10 January 2010

The DS will undoubtedly outsell the PS2.

The Wii...maybe.



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Cthulhu on 10 January 2010

ps2 is the king of home consoles

ds is not a home console

but if it makes you feel better then yes ds will beat ps2. Also I think the i-pod will beat the Wii



KillerMan on 10 January 2010

Will DS outsell PS2?
Hardware: Yes
Software: No
It is too early to say anything about the Wii. it is on track to outsell it at least in hardware but we will see.



Kenoid on 10 January 2010

You are right, the Ps3 is now gaining ground after the price drop



                                  

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MirrorWorld on 10 January 2010

Hmmm the DS will beat it for sure, it is at 124m right now and has just sold 30m in 2009. Even given steep yearly drops, it will definitely pass the PS2.

The only other possibility is the Wii and it is a bit of a stretch. I don't think the Wii can pass the PS2 as it has much stronger competition than the PS2 and it does not have enough quality 3rd party titles IMO to sustain its sales and give it the legs the PS2 had. Unless the video game market grows greatly as a whole, I really doubt it will happen. It will get close, but most likely not pass it.



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Kenoid on 10 January 2010

Well, considering the gap, even if the Wii is at its best, it will still take 3+ years for it to surpass PS2



                                  

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Branko2166 on 11 January 2010
Kenoid said:
Well, considering the gap, even if the Wii is at its best, it will still take 3+ years for it to surpass PS2

And that's if the PS2 stopped selling today. It's still got some life in it and if I recall correctly Sony has stated that they will support it as long as there is demand for it.

 



 

 

rikuwttd on 11 January 2010

DS might beat it........that suks



Hus on 12 January 2010

Wii wont out sale it.



Untamoi on 12 January 2010
numonex said:
The DS is not a console it is a handheld. Technically it does not really count if it outsells the PS2 in ltd sales. But I believe the Wii has a 50% chance of eventually outselling the PS2 in ltd sales assuming the successor of the Wii is delayed and the Wii continues to outsell the PS2 in weekly sales.

The Wii trying to maintain its sales pace against the PS2 of last generation.
Important to note the Wii will achieve 100 million sales after 5 years. It took over 6 years for the PS2 to reach 100 million ltd sales.

If the DS is counted, all iterations of the Gameboy should be counted. The Gameboy sold a huge number of units over its lifetime and different iterations. 200 million Game boy units had been sold.

Handhelds are also consoles. Technically you can make any home console as handheld. Well, at least after you have small enough components. For example, there are some stores which sell Sega Genesis handhelds and someone has also created Dreamcast handheld mod.

Considering that GBA games don't work with any previous Gameboy iterations (different screen, CPU and GPU and RAM size), you can't count all Gameboy iterations together. You don't count whole Playstation line together either. GBA is just as similar to GBC/GB as PS2 is to PS1. If you separate GBA from GBC/GB then neither of them have reached 100 million.