tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555333670261094789.post2695379822025211670..comments2024-03-26T04:28:57.170-07:00Comments on Chart Get!: Bi-Weekly Poll 1: Which Happens First?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555333670261094789.post-63979602497100186762008-08-04T11:18:00.000-07:002008-08-04T11:18:00.000-07:00I don't think it will be this quick, but for sake ...I don't think it will be this quick, but for sake of argument the soonest I can imagine a new console would be released is late 2010: five years after X360's launch. In that case, Wii and PS3 would've been around for 4 years. Worldwide, PS2 was at about 71 million four years in, so if Wii keeps ahead of PS2 it will be beyond that... but depending on how ahead, that still leaves dozens of millions to go before catching up to PS2.<BR/><BR/><BR/>One possible strike against Wii going as high as it could is if Nintendo handles the transition to a successor better. If PS3 hadn't been so expensive and eventually started yanking out PS2 compatibility, I imagine continued PS2 sales would be significantly less. Even though PS1 was a very successful system and much cheaper than PS2 is so far into its life, since PS2 was a relatively easy sell there wasn't as much reason for a person to pick a PS1.<BR/><BR/>Shipments of PS1 by calendar year, later in life<BR/>2000: 7.8 M<BR/>2001: 9.7 M<BR/>2002: 5.9 M<BR/>2003: 4.0 M<BR/>2004: 2.5 MJoshuaJSlonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01071781812007890878noreply@blogger.com