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Wii Outsells 360, PS3 Worldwide

Posted by Zonk on from the top-dog-has-a-waggle dept.

Wowzer writes "Despite confusing consoles produced, shipped or sold reports, the Nintendo Wii is now the best-selling system worldwide. Its sales exceed that of the Xbox 360 despite Microsoft's console having a year-long head start. And it's way ahead of the PS3. From the article: 'Sales figures from each console's launch date through the end of July (and the end of August in Japan) were added up, with the Wii just barely edging out the 360: 9 million for the Wii, 8.9 million for the 360, and 3.7 million for the PlayStation 3.'"

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  1. It's just so pointless by JamesRose · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    These conversations are pointless, you have 300 posters, each with their "unique" stats about how their favourite console is best, then the stats about which is selling best, which range wildly from microsoft selling 10 million by now, mircosoft selling 10million before last january, and apparently the wii has sold 2gazillion units whilst no one has actually see a missing space in the line of PS3s on the shelves. Okay, so you get a general over view, but everyone's talking crap and no one knows anything for sure. It does seem strange the same people who wouldn't consider just spouting statistics with no idea whether they are right, suddenly have no problem doing it with consoles.

    Bye Bye Karma.

  2. Wii collects dust by ObiWanStevobi · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    When I first got it, I thought it was an absolute blast. Then after 4 $50+ games, I began to realize that Paris Hilton has more depth. Yeah, it is the perfect console for minigames, but it can't do anything else of interest. The freakin frame rate drops when it tries to do anything graphically beyond what the N64 would do.


    I was a true believer at first, but now I'm pretty dissapointed with the Wii. I think in part because of all the hype it fails to live up to.