April NPD Numbers for Hardware - Wii Crushes the Competition

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posted 15 May 2008, Thursday

Nintendo Wii - 714,000 units sold
Xbox 360 - 188,000 units sold
Sony PS3 - 187,000 units sold

With numbers like these it's hard to see companies like Konami announce their utterly crappy Wii games with such fanfare. When will the big companies start to pay attention to these numbers? Will they ever? Is the videogame industry going to crash if the Wii continues to get ignored?

Also note that GTA4 came out in April and was supposed to sell tons of hardware. Imagine if GTA4 would have been on the Wii.

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1. Wii Are The Champions left...
25 November 2008, Tuesday 10:42 am

What I love is the fact that Nintendo’s “kiddy platform fad” is crushing both of the “leaders” and has done so from the day it was introduced. I also like watching the competition's Butt-Boys squirm while they try to explain the FAD away. BWAH,HA,HA,HA Many months the Wii outsells both of it’s competitors systems combined! I see plenty of XBOX & PS3 units languishing on store shelves everywhere I go but if you want a Wii you need to wait in line. That is if and when you can find them in stock! As of Sept. 08 the Wii has sold 34.55 million units worldwide the XBOX sold 22 million and the lowly PS3 only 16.84 million. Even with the Wii’s crappy video resolution, lack of a HDrive , lack of a Blu-gay player and lame game line up it is still outselling PS3 2 to 1. But XBOX fanboys don’t really have a whole lot to crow about the XBOX was released a year before either the Wii or PS3 so a 5 million unit lead on the PS3 is to be expected but how do they explain the Wii’s massive lead in sales? It comes from the Wii’s unique controller system it has opened an untapped market of old, older and oldest people that never gamed before and this market is huge and growing everyday.

What will the coming dismal holiday season hold for Sony and it’s high priced product line? Nothing good I’ll wager. Sales of all manner of personal electronics have stalled and many retailers are expecting the worst retail sales season in 40+ years.. XBOX has lowered its price $50 below the Wii it will be interesting to see if this drives the monthly sales numbers as high or higher than the Wii.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Christmas_shopping_not_looking_so_much_Blu_ as_dismal/1226539529


2. Wii Are The Champions left...
25 November 2008, Tuesday 11:15 am

Another thing to remember is as of September 30th 2008 the company with the highest number of million + selling games is Nintendo Wii with 229 million "weak, lame" games sold compared to the PS3's 94 million and the 70 million Xbox 360 games sold. And remember the Xbox had a year lead on its competitors. The Wii dominates in hardware and software sales period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games#Xbox_360