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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Welverin" data-source="post: 1125752" data-attributes="member: 433">The PS2 being the oldest doesn't have anything to do with how many systems it's sold (i.e. it wouldn't have sold any less had the GC and Xbox been released at the same time).Your second point is the important one, though you have things backwards. But first, to be clear the PS2 is just continuing the success of the PS. Now that that's out of the way, the reason the Sony has sold so many systems is because all of the big name third party games have been released for it, e.g. MGS2, FF10, GTA3, games like that are called system sellers for a reason. Immediately after Square announced that FF7 would be exclusive to the PS sales of the system skyrocketed in Japan, and that is what made the PS successful.Getting to market first doesn't matter, if you don't have the games people want to buy, then your system won't sell. TH eGenesis was released a year before the SNES, but Nntendo caught up. The DC came out a year before the PS2 and we all know how that turned out.So to sum up, the reason the Xbox and GC lag so far behind is because they don't have the exclusive titles to push console sales. If they don't change that for their next systems things will play out the same for the next generation as they have for this one.</blockquote>