Wii will soon be No1
It looks like Nintendo’s Wii will soon overtake Microsoft’s Xbox360 in the collective sales total and this is with Microsoft’s year head start in the current generation console war.
New figures from website VG Chartz puts the Wii at 10.10m units sold to date worldwide just below the 360’s 10.32m and by next week the Wii could be in the lead.
VG Chartz asserts to base its figures on over-the-counter sales data from a selection of retailers around the world, or when the latest numbers were taken and that they are “very accurate projections of the latest console sell through figures worldwide”.
Whether you take the numbers with a pinch of salt or not, they have the 360’s 10.32m sales made up of 430,000 in Japan, 6,64m in the US and 3.25m everywhere else. The equivalent Wii numbers are 3.32m, 4.07m and 2.71m, respectively. Not bad, given that the Wii hit store shelves around a year after the Xbox 360 did.
Unfortunately the PS3 is lingering in third place with only 4.11m units. However the Wii and 360’s figures are nothing compared to the might on Nintendo’s handheld, the DS. The site believes that 46.83m DS handhelds have been sold, more than twice as many PSPs sold with 22.37m.
Reference for posting: http://www.reghardware.co.uk
