Wii sales-to-date close in on Xbox 360

Nintendo Co. last week disclosed to-date sales for the company's blockbuster Wii sales that total near Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360, a product that held a year head start. Nintendo reported sales of 13.2 million Wii units worldwide to date. The same week, Microsoft disclosed in a Q1 earnings report sales of 13.4 million Xbox 360 units worldwide.

In contrast, demand for Sony's PS3 has been lackluster due to high cost and average game library. The hardware sold 119,000 units in Sept. in the U.S., far below the Xbox 360 and Wii. The hardware has sold about five million units worldwide to date.

This holiday will be a crucial factor in which console will reign supreme this generation. Wii and Xbox 360 look to crash head-to-head while Sony may recoup lost sales with a new $399 40GB SKU. Take a seat, the video game wars are about to blow up.

[Jamaicangmr]

The Wii is hot on the Xbox360's heals. The last time it was reported that the Wii had passed it in sales Halo 3 was released an gave it a boost. Now with it set to happen again what will Microsoft put out to extend their lead?

[PS360WII]

Well MS reports shipped and Nintendo reprots sales to consumers. So for as many consoles MS has in retail stores and homes Nintendo has in homes alone.

[TheXgamerLive]

The numbers for MS are "SOLD" numbers as well, thus it say's "SALES".

Yes, sad little sony is 250% behind the Wii in sales, and the Xbox 360. Xbox 360 is still number one for now. Wii will probably pass them in 2008, maybe not, but one things for sure, the ps3 never will.

Accept it and move on.

[ItsDubC]

Calm down XGamer, you make it sound like he just made fun of your mom or something. If you feel he's wrong, why not say it in a civilized and mature manner? Newsflash: not everyone is a console zealot.

"Turd Brain"? How old are you?

[PS360WII]

sales as in sales to retailers. Ah well whatever I say you'll never accept so I guess I'll just say 'ner' plus who said anything about Sony?

[SmokeyMcBear]

is sold to retailers and sold to consumers the same thing?

[TheXgamerLive]

I was getting PO'd as he does this often so I finally remarked back. Nothing more than he deserves.

[PS360WII]

What do I do often that gets you PO'd? I usually call out haters and trollers and usually say positive things for the consoles.

[NextGen24Gamer]

Nintendo reported sales of 13.2 million Wii units worldwide to date. The same week, Microsoft disclosed in a Q1 earnings report sales of 13.4 million Xbox 360 units worldwide.

This is in their financial reports.....This is the only solid info on Sales for companies. VG charts and all those other sites are never close to accurate. But then again how could they be?

[PS360WII]

Nintendo has always given sold to consumer numbers. Sony and MS have always given shipped numbers (they say sold as in sold to retailers) Sony a few months ago have now reported sold to consumers leaving MS as the only Co. to give us shipped (sold to retailers)

I'm hardly whining. If I was I'd be saying 'But Nintendo didn't release till a year ago and Xbox had all this stuff released before hand and I they count the broken boxes as well.'

Geez you'd think I just said MS is going out of business. They aren't by the way.

[hahahabutt]

Wow, this is wierd, I thought Wii surpassed 360 a while back. I guess Halo 3 had something to do with it.

[Mallow]

" The numbers for MS are "SOLD" numbers as well, thus it say's "SALES".

Yes, sad little sony is 250% behind the Wii in sales, and the Xbox 360. Xbox 360 is still number one for now. Wii will probably pass them in 2008, maybe not, but one things for sure, the ps3 never will.

Accept it and move on."

Hm, I really wouldn't be so sure, now in late 2008, 2009 you could be but it's way too soon to be saying things like this.

In any case, with Mario coming out this year and with SSBB, etc, etc, Wii will kill 360 and PS3 and be the top dog.

[Twizlex]

Maybe, but I think most people that are looking forward to those games are people that already own a Wii.

[Wii60PS3DSPSP]

If thats the case Twizlex why are they constantly sold out then?

[Twizlex]

Oh, take your pick of any of the conspiracy theories out there. I'm curious to see the holiday sales for the Wii. If the Wii is always sold out and always sells about 500,000+ consoles per month, will it only sell 500,000 to 1 million consoles over the holiday? If it sells more, then that's proof they've been purposely holding back. And before anyone says "well they just ramped up the production", why on earth haven't they already done that if the system is constantly sold out? Obviously the demand is there, so if they COULD ramp up the production, I think they would have already. But since they haven't, that means they are either unable to produce more units (which the holiday sales will indicate), or they're holding back on purpose.

But anyways, if the system is constantly sold out, it can't exactly be MORE sold out just because of these games. So either way, these games aren't going to push any more consoles than what normally get sold per month.

[akaFullMetal]

im not even worried about the wii, yea it is outselling the 360 and ps3, but when i go games, i go to my ps3, or a 360 if and when i get one, not the wii, which has great control over some hardcore and mostly casual players, but im a hardcore player, and my girlfriend thinks it is disgusting, anyways it is a system that has been cheaper and been made for casual gamer, causal gamer outnumbers > hardcore players, so of course they are going to have more systems out, but i kinda dont put the wii up against the 360 and ps3

[rubarb23]

in the end it's very beneficial to the gaming industry. the wii is bringing the casual gamers and once the casual gamers get bored with the wii and want something more from gaming, they'll look into picking up a 360 or ps3. in the end, it's good for the business of gaming.

[otherZinc]

they fail to report what matters and that is SOFWARE SALES! The Wii can sell like crazy but they cant sell any games because casuals dont buy games, period.

The 360 is winning this war so far because they are outselling the Wii & PS3 software combined.

[otherZinc]

some idiot developer may see all the Wii's in homes and think they can sell a game on it, this would take development time away from the 360 crowd that will buy games.

Team Ninja found this out with the weak sales of that great NINJA GAIDEN SIGMA game that didnt sell on the PS3. The 360 crowd would have made this a top seller.

[PS360WII]

Well here's hoping Ninja Gaiden DS sells a whole bunch I know they have 1 buyer already ^^

[NextGen24Gamer]

You don't know what you are talking about. There are no facts to support that lie about Ms only reporting shipped while Nintendo reports sold to consumers. These are the only true numbers....Financial reports....and now we know that the xbox 360 has sold more than the Wii to date. Though its very close....and obviously the Wii is doing tremendously well from a hardware sold standpoint....

Though whats even more important than console sales is Software sales...and the xbox 360 sells more games than the Wii and the Ps3 combined and then multiplied by 2. Thats Insane....

So if you say financial reports are SOLD TO RETAIL....well then that goes the same for Nintendo too. Right? LOL....

And sold to retail is as good as sold to consumer when we are talking about numbers from the previous quarters....You have to understand business.....Retail outlets order consoles and MS and Ninendo sell consoles to Retail outlets on demand....When Retail outlets re order....you can assume the previous shipments were sold....

Its not that complicated....

[GamingFun]

Really it's you that doesn't know what they are talking about.

Microsoft PR had the following to say about "shipped vs. sold": "To clarify, we report our global sales figures as sold into retail which means our products have been sold and delivered to the retailer. Not sure why 'shipped' was used in July but it is not our standard reporting policy."

http://www.next-gen.biz/ind...

Disbelieving won't get you very far in life. MS reports sold to stores not to consumers.

[Sez]

seeing these number for all systems sold. is a reason why i don't beleive vgchart with thier guessed number of systems sold. vgchart is no better than nextgenwars.

[Shaka2K6]

Are last gen. pls this POS is cheap and its only selling hardware beacuase the software is lacking big time
its just a toy for people to buy their kids and thats not a real gaming console get it.

[NextGen24Gamer]

Sold to retail is the same as sold to consumers....And both MS and Nintendo in their financial reports can only show numbers Sold to Retail...as Nintendo has no way of knowing how many consoles were sold to consumers....But both companies can assume that what ever amount they sold to Retailers actually sold if the Retail stores are ordering more units as we speak.

Common sense stuff here....So my gripe is that people like you and others say MS only shows shipped and Nintendo shows sold to consumer numbers....which is incorrect....

Both companies show sold to retail for the previous quarter which obviously means at the time we speak on it....Its actually sold to consumers as Retail outlets order more consoles....

Get it? got it? Good.

PS360WII - You are intentially ignoring what I'm saying. I have no dispute that MS states sold to retail in their financial reports...LOL....Get a clue. I'm saying that Nintendo does the same thing. They are no different. Both state sold to Retail...which means Sold when they are talking about previous Financial Reports.....Because we can all safely assume that for LAST quarter if a company ships out 1.8 million....Those consoles are SOLD as of the time we discuss it. Companies order more consoles when their previous shipments are sold. Its a business....Sold to Retail means that Retail ordered it and paid for it due to their consumer demand for the product.

[PS360WII]

Is it hurting you physically that MS themselves said that they report shipped numbers? No. Does it hurt you mentally? I hope not. Give it a break!

[Twizlex]

I don't disagree that the companies report different things. Personally, I think all companies report sold to retail, not sold to consumers, and THEY ARE DIFFERENT THINGS. I don't think the big 3 necessarily know how many consoles the local Gamestop sold until that Gamestop orders more units. If they order 20, and then they order more, it's assumed they sold close to the 20 they ordered the first time. I don't think Wal-Mart sends out a nightly report stating how many consoles they sold so the companies can update their tally. The only numbers the companies can be absolutely sure of is how many consoles are ordered from them, which means the total number is ALWAYS going to be higher than the actual number of people that bought them because it includes systems still sitting on store shelves.

[Twizlex]

It's strange that after 27 comments, this thing still didn't hit 100 degrees.