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Wii has 620,000 units to sell to beat Xbox 360: 3 weeks and they will do it

By: Peter Chubb | August 1, 2007 | 9 Comments

Wii has 620,000 units to sell to beat Xbox 360: 3 weeks and they will do it

On July the 19th we reported that the Wii were only 1 million sales behind the Xbox 360, well the Nintendo Wii is now only 620,000 sales away from beating Xbox 360 sales. This means that the Wii is selling at least 200,000 units per week, so in three weeks times the Wii will overtake Xbox 360 sales.

When you take a close look at the figures it means that the Wii have sold almost as many units in 9 months that it has taken the Xbox 360 21 months to do.

So the question is. Will the Playstation 3 be able to do what the Wii has done and beat Xbox 360 sales?

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  • Dean Ash

    Short answer = NO

    No console bashing or fanboyism it’s simply down to cost, i’m not going to debate which is better which has better features, better value or better games.

    The fact of the matter is that mass market apeal is always driven by cost when 2 or more similar products are available the first to get closest to what consumers feel is an exceptable price to pay for a games console will have more success.

    This may seem too simplistic and there are other factors to consider but rightly or wrongly it still comes down to price in the end.

    It may be supprising to see just how well the Wii is selling but given the fact that it launched at a mass market price and that as well as nintendo’s fan base, it’s attracted the less experienced gamers with it’s motion sensing controllers, it was always likely to sell well.

    More experienced gamers are far likely to have played some sort of motion sensing peripheral such as the Dreamcast fishing rod or the sidewinder pad, in my case i enjoyed the experience but would rather stick to conventional joypads for the majority of gaming, others will no doubt want to use it more.

    I’m a gamers gamer and respect all peoples choice of console but the fact is that the Wii will continue to run away with the weekly console sales untill one of it’s competitors reach a mass market price and with a years head start and a cheaper starting price thats only likely to be the 360.

  • Bailey

    Thats assuming zero sales of the 360. More likely it will take 5 weeks and be in mid September.

  • Mongo

    Of course, if you factor in the 20-25% failure rate (or more) for 360′s, the Wii has already passed the 360 in total number of currently working consoles in the market.

    Will the PS3 pass the 360 in sales? Yeah, probably, eventually. The fact that 360′s just don’t sell in Japan (the 2nd biggest gaming market after the USA) pretty much guarantees that.

    Will the PS3 pass the Wii in sales? Perhaps, but only if they keep selling it for 10 years (like Sony claims they will), and Nintendo brings out a new console in ~5 years (like they usually do), and we only compare PS3 sales to Wii sales (and not the Wii2, or whatever it’s called).

    The Wii+Wii2 is going to sell way more than the PS3 over a 10 year span. Casual Gamer + Gamer + Hard Core Gamer is a way bigger market than just Hard Core Gamer (and that’s pretty much all the PS3 is aimed at).

  • Mizzikee

    LOL@Bailey… I can’t believe the writers can be so over zealous. All these blogs are like being at a baseball game, and a fly ball that is no where near you or the people around you, and they still get up and try to motion towards it’s direction. Every little creak in a step and we have wizards with all seeing eyes try to guess the next fault in a company’s steps. go play WoW

  • Kalada

    Actually its not assuming zero 360 sales. The article should have mentioned that the Wii is selling at least 200,000 units per week MORE than the Xbox360. So 3 weeks time is pretty accurate.

  • pete

    @Mongo

    When you consider that the PS3s best recent weekly sales in Japan is only about 12,000 units and the 360s best only about 7,000 then Japan isn’t as big a factor as you think.

    Infact i’d say that Japan being Sonys stronghold and seeing such weak sales is much more damaging to the PS3.

  • Henry

    Nintendo is its proper one to publisher, as soon as knows that it always can produce games of the quality for its same system without others devs… that they are in a different situation

    http://playtops3.blogspot.com

  • Mark S Bites

    Yeah most likely by next year this time PS3 will pass 360 is units shipped and sales. Currently 360 has 11.6 million units shipped and PS3 has 6 million units shipped. PS3 is a little over half of the 360 units and the 360 had the head start. The PS3 hasn’t been around for a year yet too.
    Units shipped means a lot since you can’t ship units if retailers don’t have the space for them. If you are shipping more units it’s because the retailers are selling systems and are asking for more.

    360 shipped about 1 million units this year while PS3 shipped over 4 million units this year.

    What will be 360′s true test is Halo 3. We all know that Halo 3 will be awesome whatver type of fanboy you are. No debate. It will sell millions of copies in it’s sleep. The question is will it sell systems like hotcakes?

    Microsoft has to hope that the majority of people want a 360 for halo 3 and are waiting for it to come out to buy a 360. If the majority of the installed user base is the Halo 3 buyers and Halo can’t move a lot of systems the way Gears did, MS will have a problem.

    I have a PS3 and there is not that killer system moving app out now but they will be hitting the stores soon. There are a lot of people that are waiting on the PS3 for more games or the IT game. For some that game is LAIR, some Unreal 3(since PS3 gets it earlier) but most are waiting for MGS4. That will move systems for the PS3 and it’s not coming to the 360.

    So if Halo 3 does not move systems the next system moving app for them is Gear 2 and by then it may be too late.

  • Charles

    Mongo hit it on the head with what he said. The whole asian market is not for the 360 even though it is a slow climb. Thoes Asian are loyal to there product and Brands and each other. They only support their own. Canada is filled with them so trust me I know. They are the second largest group behind whites over here. So Wii go ahead and sell because I really doesn’t matter because you going to win the whole thing because of one continent. Besides you can hardly find a Wii here in N.A. but there in abundance in Japan and China. So what are the stats we all care about. What is the sales figure here in North America?