PS2 Comes Out on Top
The numbers are in on Decemeber pre-holiday console sales and the runaway winner was the 6-year-old PlayStation 2. From Slate.com:
More than 1 million Xbox 360s were sold in December. Nintendo sold 600,000 Wiis that month. Sony brought up the rear, selling half a million of its $600 PlayStation 3 consoles. Still, Sony was the surprising winner of the December sales contest. How? Its six-year-old PlayStation 2 console racked up 1.4 million sales, far outpacing all three of the newfangled consoles.
To me at least this comes in surprising on one hand and not so much on the other. The PS2 was the cheapest console with the best track record and the cheapest games so that alone should help it perform well but being 6 years old and still selling that many consoles is just impressive. I think some games (not diehards here) wait until the next generation starts to come out because they know they can get a deal on the system.
The article is worth a read, especially for its commentary on the upcoming games for the old system.
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