Author Topic: Wii already has 1/3 of 360 sales! Snowball to stay frozen in hell?! (Read 16341 times)

Requiem · « **on:** December 27, 2006, 08:55:17 AM »

Don't know how reputable this site is (though from a quick look around, looks legit), but they show (with perdy graphs) that the Wii already has 3 million sold! That's crazy!

Check it out

WuTangTurtle · « **Reply #1 on:** December 27, 2006, 09:04:22 AM »

hmm, i dunno those PSP numbers seem a bit high, lol.

Requiem · « **Reply #2 on:** December 27, 2006, 09:09:03 AM »

how so?

capamerica · « **Reply #3 on:** December 27, 2006, 09:38:55 AM »

well we have to remember, to Sony a Sold unit is just a unit that has been sold to the Store. Depending on where they are getting their sale numbers they could just be getting the number of units for the PSP and PS3 that have been "Shipped" and sold to the store and not actual units that have been sold to actual people.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #4 on:** December 27, 2006, 10:25:47 AM »

I don't know, Microsoft was so confident it would sell 10 million by the end of the year (even going as far as to suggest it might exceed 10 million) that I have to question VGCharts' 360 numbers.

Still, Nintendo has had a really good launch.

BlkPaladin · « **Reply #5 on:** December 27, 2006, 12:30:53 PM »

Next Gen Wars has the 360 with more but that number is still below 10 million. So I don't. We will definatly get better number in April when the companies release their financials for this year. But I'm expecting an offical announcement on how well Sony and Nintendo did over the shopping season from their respective companies sometime soon (as in about a month).

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #6 on:** December 27, 2006, 01:26:14 PM »

I think VG charts is wrong. Xbox360 is closer to 9 million, at least according to other sources.

Requiem · « **Reply #7 on:** December 27, 2006, 01:28:23 PM »

What other sources? Nextgenwars is by far the least credible...

Requiem · « **Reply #8 on:** December 27, 2006, 01:32:58 PM »

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Originally posted by: Brandogg
I think VG charts is wrong. Xbox360 is closer to 9 million, at least according to other sources.

What other sources? Nextgenwars is by far the least credible...

here check out the month by month totals....

Kairon · « **Reply #9 on:** December 27, 2006, 01:45:05 PM »

I trust the 7 million thereabouts number for the X360. In America, the Xbox 360 sold only 500k units in November, and has been consistently outsold all year long by the PS2. According to NPD numbers up to Novermber 2006 reported here, the X360 only has about 3.7 million units sold in the U.S. If you multiply that by a factor of 1.1 to account for Canada and the rest of the Americas, the X360 has only moved about 4.07 million units in America. Japan is practically nothing with maybe 190k lifetime sales there, and with the X360 reportedly quite lukewarm in Europe, estimates range at about 2 - 2.5 million in sales there. All that together means we can weather a guess at 7 million X360's sold worldwide QUITE easily.

NPD numbers discourage any higher estimates in the North American Market, and the numbers are very clear about Japan. Europe has no such independent reliable and public tracking service, but all indications point that the X360 Is not exactly gangbusters over there, definitely not enough to account for 2 million "phantom" units that MS needs to make its magical 10 million number.

... which they're gonna say they did by giving us shipping numbers instead anyways.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #10 on:** December 27, 2006, 03:13:09 PM »

Don't get me wrong, I like the VGCharts numbers a lot better, I just don't know if they're very accurate. I've seen numbers from Microsoft that were higher than this, of course they could be using shipped instead of sold.

Kairon · « **Reply #11 on:** December 27, 2006, 04:59:01 PM »

BINGO. MS uses shipped instead of sold, just like Sony.

Also, the numbers on VG charts for the US market are straight from NPD, the closest thing we have to a sales tracking group in America. They're not perfect (they don't track Walmart but are forced to guesstimate them), but they're our best guesses. They also don't cover Canada and the rest of the Americas.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

IceCold · « **Reply #12 on:** December 27, 2006, 06:13:47 PM »

Does this chart account for December North American sales? If so, all the consoles would be boosted.

Yeah, those 360 numbers are quite accurate - it may be a bit over 8 million at most.. The PSP numbers seem inflated; even the Japan ones seem too high. The Wii sales look about right - Nintendo missed their target by about a million, if this holds true.

On another note, New Super Mario Bros is at nearly 8 million worldwide, and Nintendogs is at 10 million! Amazing.

Kairon · « **Reply #13 on:** December 27, 2006, 06:27:13 PM »

We don't know anything about December sales yet except that they'll be big.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #14 on:** December 28, 2006, 04:57:01 AM »

All things considered, the 360 has actually done pretty poorly, what with being the first next gen system to market with a year-long head start.

I'm curious to see when Wii demand will taper off. It's looks like the Medacast predictions of the Wii being impossible to find for the rest of the year are indeed correct and could likely carry over into the next year as well.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #15 on:** December 28, 2006, 05:20:08 AM »

Hey, I did find three last night. But I bet they're gone already.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #16 on:** December 28, 2006, 05:28:42 AM »

I found 4 at Wal-mart but they sold out in under 20 minutes.

For anyone with a 9-5 job, this still classifies as "impossible" since all these shipments come in around noon.

BlkPaladin · « **Reply #17 on:** December 28, 2006, 05:30:34 AM »

Well for now they are going to be "easier" to find then in December. But I don't expect them to be in great quanity when found but they will stay on the shelf a little longer. I just finshed reading an article on the New York Times where he didn't want to get one until he played it then he couldn't find them. His last few sentences were that he hated Nintendo and the guy how showed him the console. (The games editor) There was another writter for them that had to get a police escort out of Target because she recieved the last one in the store.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #18 on:** December 28, 2006, 05:32:19 AM »

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Originally posted by: BlkPaladin
Well for now they are going to be "easier" to find then in December. But I don't expect them to be in great quanity when found but they will stay on the shelf a little longer. I just finshed reading an article on the New York Times where he didn't want to get one until he played it then he couldn't find them. His last few sentences were that he hated Nintendo and the guy how showed him the console. (The games editor)

That's true throughout.

My GF didn't want one until she tried Wii sports, and I've showed it to coworkers at the xmas party who seemed genuinely interested in it.

The Wii has the viral effect going for it, even more so than the DS ever did.

BlkPaladin · « **Reply #19 on:** December 28, 2006, 05:36:03 AM »

Well that's because Nintendo knew what type of game to have with the Wii this time because of what they went through with the DS.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #20 on:** December 28, 2006, 05:40:42 AM »

Indeed they did.

Wii Sports has probably sold more Wiis in the US than even Zelda.

Ceric · « **Reply #21 on:** December 28, 2006, 05:59:28 AM »

360 numbers would be much much stronger if the 360 wasn't prone to breaking early on.

NeoThunder · « **Reply #22 on:** December 28, 2006, 12:55:26 PM »

wasn't sure were to post this, but G4TV reported the Wii sold upwards of 3.5 million systems worldwide with about half in the US

not sure about the half in the US sounding right, considering Nintendo said 1 million in the US by the end of the year

BranDonk Kong · « **Reply #23 on:** December 28, 2006, 03:20:10 PM »

Nintendo has sold well over 1 million in the US.

BlkPaladin · « **Reply #24 on:** December 28, 2006, 04:35:35 PM »

Half sounds about correct, Nintendo has sold less then 1 million in Japan (.82 million) and I'm guessing a little over a .5 million elsewhere. So I guess they will hit their target for 2 million Wii this year in the US.

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