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Wii, PS3 Sell Big In First Week
Wowzer writes "Nintendo today announced the Wii sold through more than 600,000 units in the Americas in just its first eight days of availability. That's a rate of nearly one per second continuously since the November 19 launch!" From the article: "The company noted that, when taking into account first-party software and accessory sales, Wii sales have thus far amounted to an impressive $190 million. Nintendo also added that sales of the Wii's highly anticipated launch title, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, has already has achieved sales of more than 454,000 units in the Americas, a figure which it notes represents in excess of of 75 percent of all hardware purchasers." I couldn't find any sales figures for the PS3, just word that the company has sold all the units it shipped. Gamasutra is also reporting sales figures via Ebay for the two consoles. 15,000 PS3s were sold, while the Wii cracked 27,000 via the popular online auction site.
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Ya right, here in Montreal Future Shop has a lot of 20gig PS3 in store, nobody want it, all wainting for the 60gig.
what a failure, why even shipping a low end version (at a relative high price) of a high end console
Ok, Microsoft have doing it, but nobody take it anyway.
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Even though PS2s are still flying off the shelves all over the planet, next gen has finally arrived. For the next few months it is going to be purely a shipment/manufacturing battle between Nintendo and Sony with stock selling out as fast as it arrives on store shelves.
NPD results for November will be out in a week or so and we will have independent confirmation of launch sales - most likely ~600k for Nintendo and ~400k for Sony since there is going to be an extra week of shipments for both consoles. Sony is air freighting PS3s every few days that are arriving in stores. The Wii will most likely be around 1.5 to 1.7 by Christmas and the PS3 around 1 million.
Nintendo historically sells extremely well during the holidays and then not so well during the rest of the year. So I would expect the Wii to have an early lead for the first few months of 2007 and but as PS3 production ramps up to full capacity the PS3 will start to rapidly catch up and pass the Wii in installed base.
The big battle will be in Japan between the Wii and PS3. And the PS3 should easily take NA and Europe. The 360 has pretty much flunked out of the market in the eyes of console players having sold less than the first Xbox after the same amount of time on the market. Right now the 360 has only sold around 4.7 million worldwide, so the Wii and PS3 should start leaving the 360 behind in sales around the middle of 2007.
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and they both rock :) They are like apples and oranges when you try to compare them so don't even bother. The part I like the best is that I can have this much fun without giving Microsoft a f**king dime.