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Wii Outsells 360, PS3 Worldwide
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.'"
Who saw this coming? Be honest!
Oh come on, they have commercials featuring creepy old Japanese guys going to children's houses and saying "wii want to play" with a weird gleam in their eyes! How much more advertising do you need?
>Play as many games on as many different systems as you can.
Lalalalala, I can't hear you! I can't hear you! You sir, have commited BLASHPEMY! Video game consoles are a religion, and if you don't pick one and beat people over the head with your brand of Truth (TM), then you're a sicko deviant who deserves to be burned at the stake. Discussions about games aren't for talking about what you like to play, its more about what you _won't_ play on other systems. I don't know whether to label you a frat guy jock, a kiddy gamer, or an drooling I'll-buy-anything-Sony idiot. You confuse and anger me, and I'm going to go on the record saying that I just plain don't like you.
I'll close with a reading from the book of Nintendo:
"Lo, and the Lord said 'Let there be Wii'. And the Wii did descend from the Heavens and the people saw that it was good. And they saw that it was great. And lo did they see that no other games were fun, and the controllers turned to ash in their hands. And the Lord did speaketh 'Behold my wisdom, and the gift I have bestowed upon you. Take this Wii and take it out to the world, to show unbelievers my Truth.' And so they did, and so thusly did the Lord's profits grow."
Amen.
That's ok, my karma can withstand the torments and tortures of obviously incensed non-believer moderators. I may suffer now, but their eternal punishment in the hellfires of heterogeneous gaming will know no end.
We refer to people like that as "those with lives outside of the fucking internet".
The year is 2078, somewhere in Heartland America Son: Dad, what's that valley over there Dad: Son, that's the valley of Nintendo Wii Factories Son: Why did they build so many, didn't they realize one day they wouldn't need so many Dad: Yes son, but some guy on the Internet thought it was a good idea. Son: But dad, that's stupid, what did this anonymous idiot on the internet know about supply chains? Dad: Nothing son, that's why we now have 84 idle crumbling Wii factories now that market saturation is long past Son: That sucks.... Son: Hey dad? Dad: Yes Son? Son: Can I get a PS27? Dad: Do you know how many Euros that is?!
The PS3 is so much faster than the other consoles that I only need 3.7 million of them to do more work than all the XBox 360 and Wiis combined, so there!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I do- I bought it so I could flip it over and hit its weak spot for MASSIVE DAMAGE!!!!
THen I realised I was supposed to turn it on and hit the character in the game, not the PS3. So now I have 2 mortgages.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Your troll-fu is incredibly strong, young one.
30+? You've got to be kidding. The cut off for kids who grew up playing these games is in the low/mid-20s. Even for NES you're looking at no older than 24 or 25 for the tale end. Well, at least for the kids whose parents loved them... or had friends who were loved by their parents. Come to think of it, lack of loving parents is probably responsible for the current popularity of halo. If only those parents had hugged little Jimmy more and then given him an NES we could have all been saved from such horrible games!
The Farewell Tour II