WTF, I didn't know Gameboy sold so less?
Wow, massive feat for the DS.

What about the other consoles, like PSX/PS2?

 

The PS2 sold over 138 million copies. It's still the best selling system of all time. No other home console has sold as well as the PS2.

They announced their sales last year in October. Nice edit, arcturus.

 

Sure, WiiFit/WiiSports just appeal to a much bigger audience, I'm sure the Wii would have sold that well even without hacking.
It would just take a longer time then.

 

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...sorry, can't stand insanely bad grammar.


The Wii is appealing for several reasons.
1: it's doing something new
2: Appeals to a pretty wide audience. (Ages 4-12, 30- 70. approx)
3: Cheap, small, easy to set up
4: Easy to hack (though I bet you most people don't have it hacked, so many adults are oblivious to that kind of thing)
5: HUGE health craze. (especially since it WORKS...)

Probably other reasons.

PS2 has a ton of sales, but we also have to remember that's because it's the poor mans PS3. (where it is still getting a decent amount of games, and already has a huge library thanks to still being an active console).
Hell, i've been itching to mod mine (too lazy to go buy action replay >_>). I have like 50 games I wanna play on it.

 

ps3 has way more better games than the 360. i didn't even turn my 360 on for a year (mass effect 2 made me turn it on, and online sucks, paying for it sucks and it's pretty much just first person shooters), and my ps3 gets used every day (online is free and has free online, and alot of online games). my wii only gets used when my 5 year old wants to play mario (that will change when metroid comes out though)

 

You said the xbox online sucked twice and the PS3 online is free twice..... Um... they each have their own good things..... I owned an Xbox, Own a Wii and want to own a PS3.


Xbox has it's good. I mean more online playability and a lot more features like Windows Media Center Extension, Ease of use Netflix (no CD) and great games.... it's true most great games for the xbox are shooters, but that's just a phase, like Guitar Hero. Oh and you can play your music during your games (why didn't sony let that happen?)

PS3 has a lot of features, an OS can be installed on it. It can recognize keyboards and mouse fast and there's an internet browser (xbox failed there). It has PSP connectivity uses blu-ray, has way more processors than the xbox 360 so games should run better but then again that's up to the game developer to understand how the ps3 works.

The Wii may be the dead-end of console graphics but it proves that game play is what really counts in a game, not pretty little movie games where you play 20 mins to unlock 1 hour movie (hint: FFXIII). Sure it had its flaws in the control but the motion plus makes it better. Plus any person of any age can play, understand, and appreciate wii games.


Back to the subject. Nintendo will always be one of the best at selling game system, not because of graphics and such but because of innovations and new ways to play, even if it means buying the motion plus, wii speak, wii zapper, wii vitality sensor (my wallet is crying) and other accessories (next we will have a full-body suit complete the "feeling of being in the game"