But it's just a gamecube with a fancy controller
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=21645
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=21645
Exactly my thoughts - if Sony can get more PS3's to market at launch than there were Wii's, then it will become the fastest selling console.Cronox said:To be fair to Sony and Microsoft the game industry is growing with each generating so something new now should easily outsell something like a snes or ps1. Factor in the relatively high launch supply and it was a bit of a given that would break the record. Had the 360 launched with that many units they would have been sold too, same goes for the ps3 when it launches.
Not to take anything away from Nintendo, the wii looks to be a great success and I can’t wait to get one it’s just news stories like this seem to be marketing spin more than anything else.
thor said:Exactly my thoughts - if Sony can get more PS3's to market at launch than there were Wii's, then it will become the fastest selling console.
Cronox said:Had the 360 launched with that many units they would have been sold too, same goes for the ps3 when it launches.
*off topic* Iain Dowie...? I thought it was Sloth from The Goonies!?!Goatboy said:I haven't got around to deleting Iain Dowie which I meant to do when he left Palace - used to be a legend, now an unemployed tosspot.
GarethDW said:*off topic* Iain Dowie...? I thought it was Sloth from The Goonies!?!
Really?Cronox said:To be fair to Sony and Microsoft the game industry is growing with each generating so something new now should easily outsell something like a snes or ps1.
The PS2 has only just recently manage to surpass the sales of the PS1. Nintendo have never managed to recapture the success of the NES, and sales have diminished with every new console. The Dreamcast didn't sell as many units as the Master System (nevermind the runaway Mega Drive). Both DS's combined haven't even sold as many units as the original GBA did, in about the same space of time. The 360 hasn't even sold as many units as the Game Gear managed.Nintendo Entertainment System: 60 million
Super Nintendo Entertainment System: 49 million
Nintendo 64: 32.93 million
Nintendo GameCube: 21.20 million
Nintendo Wii: 1 million
Nintendo Game Boy: 69.42 million
Nintendo Game Boy Color: 49.54 million
Nintendo Game Boy Advance: 76.79 million
Nintendo DS: 26.82 million
Sega Master System: 13 million
Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis: 29 million
Sega CD: 6 million
Sega Saturn: 10 million
Sega Dreamcast: 10.6 million
Sega Game Gear: 8.65 million
Sony PlayStation: 102.49 million
Sony PlayStation 2: 103.69 million
Sony PlayStation 3: 377,482
Sony PlayStation Portable: 17.03 million
Microsoft Xbox: 24 million
Microsoft Xbox 360: 7 million
Goatboy said:Who knows how many the wii or 360 would have sold if the supply was able to match the demand, it's all conjecture. What matters is they sold twice as many as their last console and have set a new record.
I'm not convinced the ps3 will beat it, March is not a great launch time unlike two weeks before Christmas and it's damn expensive.
I'm still not going to buy any of them but good on Nintendo I say.
Goatboy said:But it's just a gamecube with a fancy controller
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=21645
TheGreatGrrrr said:I <3 my Wii and sending my Hitler/Stalin/Lenin Miis to friends.
Weebull said:Really?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console_sales
The PS2 has only just recently manage to surpass the sales of the PS1. Nintendo have never managed to recapture the success of the NES, and sales have diminished with every new console. The Dreamcast didn't sell as many units as the Master System (nevermind the runaway Mega Drive). Both DS's combined haven't even sold as many units as the original GBA did, in about the same space of time. The 360 hasn't even sold as many units as the Game Gear managed.