Wii overtakes 360 as best-selling next-gen console in US
The Nintendo Wii is already the best-selling home console on a worldwide basis, but now its creators have announced that the console has overtaken the Microsoft Xbox 360 as the platform of choice in North America, with nearly 10.9 million units sold in the 20 months since its November 2006 launch.
This landmark in sales, detailed by the NPD Group, shows just how far the Nintendo Wii has come, especially amid fears that it would serve as nothing other than a short-lived fad when it was first announced. In June 2008, the Wii sold more than 666,000 units in the US.
“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 vice president 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.”
Nintendo may not have pleased the core audience very much at this week’s E3 Media and Business Summit, but there’s no doubting that the audience as a whole still can’t get enough of its offerings.
That’s why MS said they were going to outsell the PS3, but didn’t mention the same about the Wii
ps3 aint got games
I own a wii and 360 (not a ps3 yet its still too expensive with its lack of games) and I can easily say the wii is not next gen; as ninty have sed before it is new-gen not next gen so 360 is still in the lead. P.S. where were the promised announcements of games for wii core gamers (dnt even say animal crossing) im really dissapointed in you nintendo
Patience is a virtue. When the core games get in, I’ll enjoy them (there are at least 8 games I’m expecting for the wii at this time). In the mean time, there are tons of games I can play on the PC or PS3, or if worst come to happen, I have a life to live. BTW, how do you like that new Wii interface on the 360?
Lol well hasnt actually been released yet but i thought it looked more like the psp/ps3 interface but hey all the console companies are copying each other nowadays and if you like all three of em thats great less of a learning curve going from console to console.
Agreed.