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Originally Posted by mykalberta
The WII has outsold the 360 and PS3 since its release.
Remember though, its half the price and it targets a completely different demographic, one that isnt likely the purchase alot of games but rather play a certain number of games very frequently.
At the M$ E3 press conference they said this year alone that the 360 has sold in dollar value more consoles, accessories, games than the WII and PS3 combined.
Does anyone know what else the Nintendo corp does, supposedly their market cap surpassed Sony's yesterday in trading on the Nikie' (sp?) stocke exchange.
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I don't buy that at all. I'm as "hardcore" as anyone along with plenty of people I know. We all have every bit as much fun with Mario, Metroid, Zelda, Mario Kart, F-Zero etc as we do with Halo, Gears of War, Resistance and Forza. Some of the most "hardcore" gamers I know own a Wii, PC and maybe a few of the last gen machines. There are just as many "harcore" Wii gamers out there as there are "hardcore" X360 players.
I think if anything, the last couple years in the gaming world has shown that the large majority of people buying video games don't care nearly as much about HD graphics as MS and Sony thought they did. As for MS claimimg that the pure $ figure of their products were higher than Sony and Nintendo combined, well, I don't buy that either. Not on a world-wide scale anyway. Maybe NA alone and that is just because the 360 is far more expensive than Wii but I still can't see that.
May NA sales looked something like this (As per NPD).
DS - 423 000
Wii - 338,000
PSP - 221 000
360 - 154 000
PS3 - 81 000
Software sales are pretty close between Wii and X360. X360 games cost on average $10 more. Based on that. Does that claim sound right to you? Maybe.
Japan is even worse. They do it by the week , not month. The most recent week looks like this. (7/2 - 7/9)
DS - 140 000
Wii - 75 000
PSP - 33 000
PS3 - 13 000
360 - 2 300 (being generous and not rounding down)
Europe is next to impossible to find numbers for but it is generally accepted that Wii vs. X360 is slightly more lopsided for Wii than it is in NA. Sony is lagging far behind there as well.
That MS statement sounds like pure BS to me.
As for Nintendo market capitalization, I also heard they passed Sony to become the #1 consumer electronics company in the world. The only thing they do other than games is dip their hands into the Pokemon movies. That's it. Judging by the sales numbers though it is easy to see that Nintendo is giving Sony a beat-down world wide right now and they make money on every console sold, DS or Wii. Sony loses their shirts on the PS3 and breaks about even on the PSP. If PS3 sales don't increase, say, 500% pretty quickly Sony is going to be losing billions on the Playstation brand. Ken Katuragi, the "father of Playstation" has already been fired from Sony due to the PS3's absolute face-flop on the world-wide market.
That all being said, I can't wait for Mass Effect (too bad it's made in Edmonton).
Wii Fit.
