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Wii passes Xbox 360 in worldwide sales
Topic Started: Aug 26 2007, 09:05 AM (681 Views)
Flame_The_hedgehog
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Well, it finally happened.

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"VG Chartz"
 
Vgchartz.com, the most comprehensive Videogame charts in the world has announced that lifetime sales of Nintendo's Wii have passed Microsoft's Xbox 360 on a worldwide basis as of August 23rd.

Two years ago, very few analysts would have predicted the Nintendo Wii would be market leader this generation against the established Playstation and Xbox brands. But analysts can be in error: Vgchartz.com data, which is based on sample data from retailers all over the world indicates that the week ending August 23rd Nintendo's Wii (which was released one year after the Xbox 360 in November 2006), currently standing at 10.57 million consoles sold, passed Xbox 360 lifetime sales of 10.51 million units, making Nintendo the new market leader in both the home and handheld videogame console businesses.

As weekly data from vgchartz.com shows, the console outsold Microsoft’s Xbox 360 by a margin of 2.3 : 1 worldwide on average each week since its release, selling at an even faster rate than the most successful console ever created, Sony's Playstation 2, despite still being sold out in most major markets.

This is the first time that a company has been market leader in the home console and the handheld market since 1994 when Nintendo’s Super NES and Gameboy dominated worldwide.

Vgchartz.com is proud to be first to announce this major sales cross over as an independent tracker of sales and expect this to be a milestone for the current generation. In just two years, home console sales for the three major manufacturers have effectively reversed. This will have a large impact on third party publishers and will undoubtedly influence the decisions they make in the future.

One factor that has no doubt helped Nintendo's Wii to gain so quickly is the console's broad appeal across all age groups, demographics and countries. Current sales are pretty evenly split between the three major markets – 3.46 million have been sold in Japan, the American market (including Canada and South America) accounts for 4.24million and Other markets (including Europe and Australia and a few niche markets) for 2.87 million units sold, respectively.

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Spøkelse
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Haha PS3 don't even come close!
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Xander
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

75% of those people are going to get bored with the Wii very quickly though. Like I did.
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But the Wii is coming out with new games.

And yeah, the PS3 doesn't come close! That's probably why they're still making games for the PS2, they figure no one will buy the games only released for PS3, muhaha, I reep the benefits!
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The ONLY game I am looking forward to is SSBB. It is the only reason I haven't sold my Wii yet.
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Well, weather your bored of it or not, it's still leading. Besides, if the Wii brings out some good games, it'll probably get some more fans.
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But theres tons of cool Wii games coming out. At least, i think so. Heres a few off of the top of my head:

SSBB, obviously
Super Mario Galaxy
Metriod Prime 3, which i believe is released in the US tomorrow
Mario Kart Wii
Disaster: Day Of Crisis
Sonic Riders 2
NiGHTS
Mario and Sonic

Theres lots more, but thats all i can remember right now


Yay, Nintendo is back on top :D
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I'd rent Galaxy and Merio Kart, but I don't want to buy or rent any of the others.
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Only rent which will probably be 2 of the biggest Wii games? Wow. Well in my opinion, i think you'll be missing out on a lot. But im sure you think the same about me and the 360, seeing as i only have 2 games lol
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I really don't have that many 360 games either. Most of 'em I got on sale. I doubt it will take very long to beat either game, so I can just rent them when I have a few days off school.
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