Wii Becomes World’s Biggest-Selling Next-Gen Console...

[Gikoku]

Wii Becomes World’s Biggest-Selling Next-Gen Console...

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Nintendo has sold 9.02m consoles globally, says Japanese economic authority

According to a report by Japanese economics resource Nikkei Net Kansai, the Wii has overtaken the Xbox 360 as the current leader of the next-generation console war – the first time Nintendo has reclaimed the title since the SNES days.

As translated by MCV sister site Develop, Nikkei has brought together the figures from Enterbrain, NPD and GfK – sales tracking agencies of Japan, America and Germany respectively.

According to these stats, Wii has sold 9.02m units throughout the three territories as of the end of July (August for Enterbrain’s figures), eclipsing Microsoft’s global sales of 8.8m despite being launched a year later.

Sony’s PS3, launched in the US and Japan within a few days of the Wii, has only sold 3.7m in the same timeframe.

Nikkei Net Kansai’s report claims that two-thirds of 360 sales have been in the US, with the Japanese performance still failing to meet expectation. In contrast, the Wii has sold almost uniformly across the territories, despite lacking the technical clout of the cutting-edge PS3 and Xbox 360.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Re: Wii Becomes World’s Biggest-Selling Next-Gen Console...

Hopefully people look at this and realize innovative and revolutionary games sell consoles and not pure power. With Wii and 360 being top this proves it, and Sony have made the same mistake with the PS3 that they criticised Microsoft for with the Xbox and gone for the sales pitch of power over amount of quality and exclusive titles.