Wii surpasses Xbox 360 US sales
Posted by Marcel Klum on 18 July 2008 - 11:05 · 22 comments & 9230 views
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#1 Posted by BrainDedd on 18 Jul 2008 - 11:19
- (Insert smartass fanboy comment here)
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#1.1 Posted by IceBreakerG on 18 Jul 2008 - 12:31
- ^It's only because of the devil they passed the 360. It even has his mark in the sales numbers!!! /sarcasm.
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#1.2 Posted by Ani Maul on 18 Jul 2008 - 13:55
- (IceBreakerG said @ #1.1)^It's only because of the devil they passed the 360. It even has his mark in the sales numbers!!! /sarcasm.
Six! Six! Six! The number of the Wii!
It's impressive to me how the Wii never seems to stay in stock, but can still outsell an item that is in good supply. I know it's all about Nintendo's interesting marketing approach, and it also makes sense that the Wii outsells the 360 because it is always out of stock, but it seems like the 360, with more model choices, would have combined numbers to beat the Wii. I guess not though!
I think that the Wii sells because it's just a fun console. I can't remember the last time I had this much fun playing video games with any member of my family. The system, once played, sells itself and that right there is how console gaming should be done, IMO. -
#1.3 Posted by Tha Bloo Monkee on 22 Jul 2008 - 16:08
- (Ani Maul said @ #1.2)I think that the Wii sells because it's just a fun console.
As opposed to what? Selling because it's a boring console?
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#2 Posted by thealexweb on 18 Jul 2008 - 12:06
- So it's Wii in first, Xbox 360 in second and PS3 in third.
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#3 Posted by A.B.L.N.N. on 18 Jul 2008 - 15:05
- Yeah, but it doesn't even come close to Sony which is in second place for software sales which is the really important matter financially. Who cares if you have sold more consoles, if you have an attachment rate of 3 games per console, compared to the Xbox 360's attachment rate of 7, you aren't going to win any time soon.
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#3.1 Posted by Hoff1630 on 18 Jul 2008 - 16:47
- i totally agree with that! I work at GameStop and i guarantee if you take Wii Play out of that attachment rate it would be 2 games...9/10 times a person that comes in our store and buys a Wii gets Wii Play.
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#3.2 Posted by Swordnyx on 18 Jul 2008 - 22:03
- Yay for people who look beyond simple console sale graphs! Anyway, the attachment rate for Wii is 1 actually, because Wii Play really sucks and really isn't a GAME, and Wii Sports comes included with the console by default. Then people buy some other game like maybe Super Mario Galaxy or Mario Kart Wii or Brawl (depending on their style) and they don't buy anything else.
Most of my friends only bought a Wii for Wii Sports, and that game got old fast. -
#3.3 Posted by Joel on 19 Jul 2008 - 01:12
- (Swordnyx said @ #3.2)Yay for people who look beyond simple console sale graphs! Anyway, the attachment rate for Wii is 1 actually, because Wii Play really sucks and really isn't a GAME, and Wii Sports comes included with the console by default. Then people buy some other game like maybe Super Mario Galaxy or Mario Kart Wii or Brawl (depending on their style) and they don't buy anything else.
Most of my friends only bought a Wii for Wii Sports, and that game got old fast.
Hurray for generalising! I'm looking at my 5 games, plus the 2 you said don't count.
Wait, I got one; all online games are for zitty teens who think they're the hotness. See, I can do it too. -
#3.4 Posted by Swordnyx on 19 Jul 2008 - 06:23
- (Joel said @ #3.3)(Swordnyx said @ #3.2)Yay for people who look beyond simple console sale graphs! Anyway, the attachment rate for Wii is 1 actually, because Wii Play really sucks and really isn't a GAME, and Wii Sports comes included with the console by default. Then people buy some other game like maybe Super Mario Galaxy or Mario Kart Wii or Brawl (depending on their style) and they don't buy anything else.
Most of my friends only bought a Wii for Wii Sports, and that game got old fast.
Hurray for generalising! I'm looking at my 5 games, plus the 2 you said don't count.
Wait, I got one; all online games are for zitty teens who think they're the hotness. See, I can do it too.
Haha nice but really I wasn't lying or generalising when I posted that. Look for yourself online.
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#3.5 Posted by Joel on 20 Jul 2008 - 22:42
- (Swordnyx said @ #3.4)(Joel said @ #3.3)(Swordnyx said @ #3.2)Yay for people who look beyond simple console sale graphs! Anyway, the attachment rate for Wii is 1 actually, because Wii Play really sucks and really isn't a GAME, and Wii Sports comes included with the console by default. Then people buy some other game like maybe Super Mario Galaxy or Mario Kart Wii or Brawl (depending on their style) and they don't buy anything else.
Most of my friends only bought a Wii for Wii Sports, and that game got old fast.
Hurray for generalising! I'm looking at my 5 games, plus the 2 you said don't count.
Wait, I got one; all online games are for zitty teens who think they're the hotness. See, I can do it too.
Haha nice but really I wasn't lying or generalising when I posted that. Look for yourself online.
You ARE generalising, though, because the people you know are most likely around your age and posting online about how bored they are with the Wii. The true majority of owners are nothing like you, and probably wouldn't know a web forum if it slapped them in the face.
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#4 Posted by RPDL on 18 Jul 2008 - 16:37
- This is old news, the Wii has always been the fastest selling and everyone knows it. Its cheaper, aimed at the casual gamer, and seems more innovative, no wonder the sales are first.
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#5 Posted by InPCHell on 18 Jul 2008 - 18:45
- Can't believe that they're selling so many of these things with no games. Really odd.
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#5.1 Posted by Laser_iCE on 19 Jul 2008 - 09:27
- (InPCHell said @ #5)Can't believe that they're selling so many of these things with no games. Really odd.
Not really, it comes with Wii Sport -- the game everyone wants to play. -
#5.2 Posted by +Dale on 19 Jul 2008 - 21:10
- (Laser_iCE said @ #5.1)(InPCHell said @ #5)Can't believe that they're selling so many of these things with no games. Really odd.
Not really, it comes with Wii Sport -- the game everyone wants to play.
Wii Sports 2 is coming soon!!
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#5.3 Posted by MarkX on 20 Jul 2008 - 02:35
- Mario Kart, that's all it needs. SSBB and Wii Play don't hurt either. I know, 3 games is a pretty weak lineup, but look who's buying the thing.
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#6 Posted by Airlink on 19 Jul 2008 - 08:06
- It's very simple: Everyone wants to play with their Wii.
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#6.1 Posted by Thetemptrary on 19 Jul 2008 - 21:43
- Or just buy it because it's trendy and leave it collecting dust
The NPD Group reported more than 666,000 Wii consoles sold for the month of June, with nearly 10.9 million Wii consoles sold in the US since its November 2006 launch twenty months ago.
"Wii was created with the goal of expanding the gaming universe through its intuitive motion-sensing controller," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive VP of sales & marketing.
"As we have demonstrated this week during the E3 Media & Business Summit, Wii continues to pioneer new ways for people to interact with their video games and with one another."