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Wii eclipses Xbox 360 in overall sales, becomes new market leader |
Listed in: Wii, Xbox 360 Tags: GameCube, Microsoft, SNES, VG Chartz
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Game industry sales tracking site VG Chartz reports that the Nintendo Wii game console has hit total lifetime sales of 10.57 million in the period ending August 23rd, surpassing Microsoft's Xbox 360 to take first place in this generation's console war.VG Chartz says that its figures come from samples drawn from consumers worldwide, and not retailers, meaning that there may have been more Xbox 360s shipped, but more Wiis have been sold.
The Wii launched a year after the Xbox 360, but saw rapid sales in every market it has been distributed in. Since its launch late last year, it has outpaced its rivals in monthly market performance.
VG Chartz says that very few analysts would have even conceived of this development happening a couple of years back, but Nintendo proved all its critics wrong with innovative controls and casual games that expanded the market.
The last time Nintendo led the market was in the early to mid-90s during the heyday of its SNES system. It saw tough times with last generation's GameCube but rebounded strongly with the Wii.
Via VG Chartz
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with the months going by hasn't the 360 moved on from that 10 mil mark yet? i mean the Wii has obviously jump from one mark to another in record time and even the PS3 has moved from 2.5mil to 3 mil and now 4something mil...
and the 360 is still at 10 mil? that number has stuck in my head cause the 360 boys has always mentioned that from the get go.
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I still wont be buying one since my friend has one that I play on occasionally.
I still don't think the ps3 will outsell the 360 but time till tell...
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SALES FOR USA SOFTWARE and scroll down for hardware sales -
http://www.vgchartz.com/aweekly.php
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infact i'm buying another one to send cause my wife younger kid wanted a game console for his bday and even though the core is the same price as the wii here in australia i have a feeling that he'll like the Nintendo Wii more.
as for the 360 supporters don't get on my case yet as i'm going to pre order an elite, just in time for Mass Effect... hopefully my unit pushes the 360 over 11 million :)
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Bioshock Huge sales
Halo 3 Huge sales and will sell a lot of Elites
Lair already flopped before release not good for the PS3
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and now the wii takes over first place and still there's the 10 million number... as you can see i stated it as a question "and the 360 is still at 10 mil?"...
don't blame me... it is you guys whose been throwing around that number since forever and now it bites you in the ass and it's suddenly my fault.
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the games are more fun than serious ....
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E.g Home, LittleBigPlanet , PLAY TV, Heavenly Sword, Killzone 2, MGS4, Blu-Ray Player, Final Fantasy, Ratchet and Clank, Haze, UT3, Warhawk, Uncharted: Drakes Fortune, ect ect
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1. The 10mil number was shipped in March, still though they would've outsold that.
2. Someone is innacurate. I'm pretty sure its this site as I'm almost certain I read a figure over 11m for 360s sold.
Anyway, who cares? I mean it' s great and all for nintendo, but really this isn't going to make any type of difference.
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Quixand talks facts just like i do, i guess the truth hurts huh, go back to your fantasy land with MCS and AXO.
The People who live in reality will talk facts.
I wonder how long MCS and Axo will come in and deny this.
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The fact is no one wants one. Everyone wants PS3 and wii. Just wait when bioshock comes to the ps3 i a few months, and the PS3 gets there games your system will fall to last place.
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As for the wii selling so many it just shows what idiots the mainstream gamers are they see an advert of some guy swinging his wiimote around and cutting up a sausage or whatever and they run out and buy one atleast that what happened with my step sister last week
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I could be wrong tho....that was before MS announced the extended warranty.... but im just saying a lot of people use yahoo....and that article just spread the word about the failure rates.
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To "Mister Common Sense"
You should realy look up the facts before you go bashing a console all consoles have their ups and downs i will agree that the Wii is underpower and maybe they could have uped the power a little also calling it a upped ver of a gamecube is a little naive as its not where near the same as the gamecube and i own one also maybe a little overhyped.The games you listed are probably the worst ones you can get/play there are good games like zleda(which is 100x better on the wii then the gamecube)reside nt evil,wario ware,madden 08,Super smash brawl,MP3 etc.
The last thing you said made me lol
i think its because people want to try something new and reliabilty which sucks on the 360 most 360s die by the time their a year old and this is true i have had friends where their 360s havent lasted more then a year what does this tell you personaly this is the reason i got the wii i want a console which can last more then 6 months after i get it.But i will also be buying the PS3 when the price drops and better games come out.
The 360 was rushed it thought it could win the console war by being first to release a console now that the wii has overtaken the so called "Gamecube 1.5 or 2.0" and got to 10mill units sold in half the time it took the 360.
Also theres more to the wii then what you think so please before you go bash a console back it up with facts otherwise the only people who will think your being smart are the stupid 360 fanboys who probably worship bill gates.
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obviously graphics don't matter,the ps2 is proof enough of that.
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You're an idiot. Please don't post your angry misguided opinions anywhere where people can read them. Go back to your sad, fat life.
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Now if the Wii came with next-gen graphics, I'd be willing to buy the system.
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The 360 will TRIPLE its sales during the months of Sept and Oct (you all better know why, otherwise im wasting my time....maybe i already am....). The PS3 ONLY has sales because it is a Cheap A.ss Blu-Ray player that JUST HAPPENS to play games.
I dont give a damn about the Wii because the people who buy the Wii are my parents and grandparents, A WHOLE DIFFERENT MARKET. When do you ever see Wii fanboys trolling the forums late at night looking to stur up an arrgument? Not much because Granny's and Parents arent hardcore like us. The 360 is the ONLY game system to TRULY STATISFY gaming needs with the best tech and gameplay combined! Nothing has beaten Gears in Graphics..yet as for Gameplay id like to see something beat out Halo 3, and trust me not a lot of PS3 games will.
The Wii is not in the race against console market share's EVERYONE has established that since the beggining you people just dont have anything better to do other than looking up more dirt to rub on the 360.
YOU ALL A BUNCH OF SICK *****S WHO NEED TO GROW THE ***** UP AND DEAL WITH LIFE AS IT IS!!!!
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Apart from the hardware specs which Wii definitely loose out to PS3 and X360, Nintendo probably wanted to adopt the same formula that make its DS so successful. X360, PS3 controller are not much different from PSX, PS2, Xbox, Gamecube.
Wiimote give its customer a totally different kind of experience by giving its customer a controller that can interact more freely with the console.
Granted that PS3 and X360 definitely has much better graphics than Wii. But what does all of us want from console? Fun, to relax, or to enjoy visually pleasing graphics. Everyone has different needs. For now Wii's sale seem to indicate that the fun factor is more important.
In the handheld areana, PSP has much much better CPU processing power and graphics than DS. But DS has sold much more handheld than PSP.
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the is bringing gaming to the next level, sure all it is motion sensor,however, this could help creators think of bigger projects.
Sales are amazing because so many people want to feel the expierience of actually feeling like your in the game.
The brings very good graphics.
I hate when people say the wii's graphics suck..
people think of the incredible graphics in games like super mario galaxy, resident evil umbrella chronicles, super smash bros 3, brother arms double time, metroid prime 3, and more
Wii brings back PS2 games to show wii owners what those would be with amazing visuals and incredible motion sensor gameplay
The wii lets you download amazing classic games
Now how the ***** can 360 or PS3 beat that
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Fact: The Wii has outsold the XBlowx711.
Fact: The Wii is a video game console, so therefore it has won the race regardless of whether or not its in "a whole different market".
Fact: The XBlowx711 has had not made significant sales in the past six months.
Fact: The PS3 has sold better in July, and in turn has sold more units faster in its lifetime than the XBlowx711 has despite being "overpriced".
Here are some things to consider:
A) If the Wii is not in the "race against console market", then you would have one since you wouldn't be buying it to compete against your XBlowx711.
B) You act as if a sudden surge of FPS games will suddenly boost up sales of the system. Halo 3 along with those 2345432 FPS games aren't anything new and can be experienced on a PC.
C) You don't give a damn about the Wii because it's technologically inferior to your console. LOL I love how you disregard it as a competing system considering you bash it. That's what you call "insecurity".
D) ROFL
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That being said, I seriously doubt that it happened this soon. Before Christmas MS was saying they sold over 10 million 360 units, does VGChartz expect me to believe they havent sold that many since then? Come on, MS sold over a million Elites when that SKU came out. Thats just in the span of the Elite launch. Thats not counting since then, or the premium/core sales since the announcement I cited.
VGChartz pulls their numbers from the same place Nexgenwars and Nexgen.com. They simply dont know. If you look on their site they will say something about following sales trends and the like, but they simply dont know. For more accurate numbers NPD is there for observation, but even thats not accurate because NPD omits several large retailers, most notably WalMart.
Dont worry, when the Wii is the #1 selling console, Nintendo will be sure to let us know. Until then, we dont know for sure.
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The Wii is bringing in more consumers to the market, raising their sales and expanding the gamer community, what is the 360 doing to expand their market? Nothing. The fact is, Wii concentrates on customers - all of them. Graphics are nice, but fun is better. If you disagree, well, that's your decision, all I know is there are 10 1/2 million Wii owners that chose Nintendo over Microsoft, and the numbers are rising.
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A. Consumers (duh)
Q. Why all the demand?
A. Because it's a good system.
I'll give you Red Steel and Excite Truck, but Wii Sports is actually quite fun, and you fail to mention Super Paper Mario, it's a great game with a new idea. Also, could the GameCube allow players to be so immersed in the game? Did it bring together families that weren't ever interested in video games and show them a whole new way to spend time together? No, no I don't think it did.
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ROFL "just like I do", you're the guy who doesn't think Halo 3 will hit $155 million on day one. You don't have a clue dude.
For someone who only talks negative "facts" about the 360 on a site overrun with PS3 fans, your comments have very low ratings. I guess even your fellow Sony tards don't care what you say
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"The day gaming is about seeing high definition screens and hearing surround sound is the day it becomes PC gaming: DEAD. Next gen gaming is supposed to be how we go beyond the traditional ways of playing, whether its through the Wiimote, the PS Eye, or the umm...M$ hasn't come out with anything innovative besides Live. LMAO"
The PS Eye "next-gen"? It's just another gimmick, like the Wiimote you also mentioned, and like the useless camera MS already came out with (people who are not MS have said the Vision Cam is capable of motion recognition, like the worthless PS Eye, but it will never happen because NOBODY CARES)
Just stop, you're embarrassing yourself.
But I've seen your posts before, and it seems you like to embarrass yourself, so you probably won't take my advice will you? You're probably too much of a little b*tch to even come back and read this. Ah well
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Console Weekly Total
TOTAL SALES
WII - 89,280 (+3%) 4,242,200
Xbox 360 59,118 (+13%) 6,754,010
PS2 54,608 (+2%) 44,685,317
PSP 53,206 (-4%) 9,028,903
PS3 47,928 (+15%) 1,866,426
Gamecube 22,335 (-4%) 40,837,316
As you can see the 360 is selling around 60,000 per week so over 1 month I would make that around 240,000 so as this is just the USA figures for the USA alone can someone care to explain how the 360 can still be on 10 million?.
Kinda makes posts like the new Broken_Hero on here who calls himself Spectre look a bit stupid dosent it really.
In the USA the only system the PS3 is outselling is the gameboyadvance and that a fact.................
scroll down for hardware sales.
http://www.vgchartz.com/aweekly.php
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Console Weekly
TOTAL SALES
WII - 89,280 4,242,200
Xbox 360 59,118 6,754,010
PS2 54,608 44,685,317
PSP 53,206 9,028,903
PS3 47,928 1,866,426
Gamecube 22,335 40,837,316
As you can see the 360 is selling around 60,000 per week so over 1 month I would make that around 240,000 so as this is just the USA figures for the USA alone can someone care to explain how the 360 can still be on 10 million?.
The PS3 is only managing to outsell the gamecube now that its sell off of 20 and 60 gig hard drive PS3s is coming to an end.
So when the next hardware official world sales come up expect to see the Wii and the 360 at much higher figures than showing in world total at the moment, as you can see from th chart the Wii is selling around 360,000 per month and the 360 is selling around 240,000 a month in the USA alone so the next OFFICIAL figures the 10 or so million will be far higher
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by the way the xbox 360 lasts for a long time as i have had mine for a year and a half now, + microsoft have extended the warranty to 3 years so there is nothing to worry about.
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Most of the other titles you mention are just old PS1 revamped titles NOTHING new.
Bioshock and Blue Dragon come to the 360 TODAY NOT NEXT YEAR or whenever.
Listing games that may or may not be good is pointless as LAIR has now proved.
Anyway looking forward to -
Mass Effect
Bioshock
Blue Dragon
Banjo and Kazoo
Devs using the bigger harddrives i.e the Elites standard 120gig rather than needing Blu ray or HDdvd as their storage
Etc Etc
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And they akways forget it was just the first round of consoles with the heatsink problem that has since been fixed by MS, the Elite is an amazing machine with all the latest tech and with its big hard drive and under £300 its going to sell well.
PS2 DVD DRIVE OF DEATH still in production but xbox owners dont point out that like the 360 it had a major fault but it being in its dvd drive by the millions, and like the 360 that was in the past so why mention it ? weird or what...
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There's a difference between units shipped and units solde.
M$ gives out the units shipped, nextgen / vgcharts etc give the actual sales numbers.
IN YOUR FACE
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PROOF
1.http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/07/06/ms-fails-to-meet-12-million-mark/
2.http://www.gamespot.com/news/6177468.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop;title;3
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LMAO
xboxfanboy
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Harry potter has more fanbase than halo and fact.
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and,finally,adm it that X360 is faaaaaaaaaaaaar muuuuuuch more better than Wii...And let me tell u something Wii-Fanboys...Compare the 2 consoles and say frankly with which one u will enjoy playing better.Personally i dont prefer dissolving me arm trying to play tennis,ok?Is that bad?I like to play HiDef games with gr8 sound ofc,which will make gaming an environment-an experience..Lmao...I really dont like the silly-faced,3d retro bomberman figures..muahahahahah...
P.S I dont know about the future but,X360 is still outselling Wii...So,just quit the bull***** about the Wii the Sell's king,K?
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