The Wii phenomenon has slowed this year. Consoles are easy to find. And excitement has been subdued. But the Wii is still selling at a record pace, says Anita Frazier, analyst at NPD, the official tracker of U.S. video game sales.
“There is a lot of speculation about Wii and whether Nintendo will take a price cut as sales comps to last year show declines,” she said Thursday. “It’s interesting to note that the Wii is still selling at levels comparable to what the PS2 was doing at about this point in its lifecycle.” With 138 million sold worldwide, the PS2 is the best selling console of all time.
This of course is great news for Nintendo. Not so great for those wanting to save some money and still own a Wii. In any case, the console moved 277k units last month, followed by the Xbox 360 with 215k, and the PS3 with 210k. DS blew them all out of the water though, with 552k sold in August.
What's the total Wii sales currently?
does that include dsi and ds?
Wow, it's really a shame that the Wii is "dying" like some would have you to believe.
Those sales numbers are interesting. Listening to some fan boys, I thought that the PS3 sold around 14 million consoles last month (thanks to the price cut), and the Wii only sold about 478 consoles.
@ Joshdad
Never listen to fanboys- not even the nintendo ones.
The weakest hardware always sells best. It was that way in the SNES Genesis days when the SNES with it's 3.58mhz cpu sold more then the Genesis at 7.61mhz (mode7 and extra color pallet aside). The next generation with the PS1 vs N64 again saw the weaker of the two, the PS1, greatly out sell the more powerful N64 (storage format aside). The generation next, ps2, xbox, and Gamecube again saw the trend continue. The PS2, the weakest system of the three sold almost 7 to 1 against the xbox and cube. That brings us to the present with the Wii, a system closer to a xbox1 in power mopping up 50% of the sales leaving the Xbox360 and PS3 fighting for the remaining 50%.
It's an interesting trend that has also been evident in the Handheld market with the Gameboy's and DS's never giving up top spot against a slew of superior hardware, like the Lynx, Wonderswan, Gamegear, Neogeo pocket, Nomade, and PSP. Only now with the iphone is the trend appearing to break.
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