Boombloxer
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Opiate said:Maintain that much momentum? Probably not. But there's a pretty wide gap between maintaining the highest sales ever achieved by a single platform near launch (which it did in Japan) and falling all the way to the point where it's now the second best selling console (PS3 is besting it both weekly and for the cumulative year right now). What's more, the momentum is clearly pushing even further in the PS3's favor, with third parties seemingly abandoning the Wii altogether and many fans speculating about a necessary replacement in the next 1-2 years.
Have we ever seen a system which was the clear winner for 2-3 years suddenly get outstripped by a system everyone presumed dead, like the PS3? It's never happened. Not even close, really. The Wii was going to slow down, but it surely did not need to slow down this badly.
This is what I was getting at with my earlier question. The previous generation winners sold 100+ million consoles. Wii's at 50-something now, but the momentum has ebbed quite a bit.
Can anyone imagine that happening with the PS1, PS2? So, clearly, something has to give.