SOMBirdV6

I just saw it on TV as of the end of august the Wii has sold 9 million consoles, 360 is at 8.9 million, and ps3 in last with 3.7 million sold. Pretty crazy when you consider how long the 360 has been out and the wii has just come out not long ago...price and the fact the Wii is different really helped. As always the big N does it right and is number 1 again.

paarman97maro

nice, its nice to finally see numbers.

I cant wait until mario 128 comes out.

Amurican_Muscle

haha poor ps3

Camaroguy18

minus the time the n64 was outsold by the playstation, and the gamecube outsold by the playstation 2...but who's really counting??


I gotta admit, I'm amazed at those figures for the Wii...kinda had it made out to be a console that would die down since it's platform is so different from that of mainstream consoles, but damn that's cool


lol poor poor ps3 - if it didn't cost and arm and a leg it'd probably see some more sales

98CamaroZ28

and the Wii is affordable at 250$, thats why it sold so many units, def a bigger appeal to younger gamers, Paar, dont you have a wii or is the mxbrian?

Mike Jones

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Good to hear, both the the Wii and 360 deserve to be at the top and the PS3 deserves to be at the bottom for it's stupidly high price.

paarman97maro

we both do.

SOMBirdV6

The big N does it right as in 1st party games, Sure the cube and 64 didnt always get number 1, But they both are more well known over the PS1 and PS2 to have GREAT 1st party games. Find a game on ps1 or ps2 that can beat out....Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Mario Kart 64, super mario 64, smash bros series, Zelda series, metriod prime. The fact nintendo is smart and always thinks of the games before any other feature such as dvd playback.

SOMBirdV6

MetalliCamaro

Older brother got one awhile ago... I havent touched it.... I settled with the PS2.

97z2801ss

yea ps2 is dope.

paarman97maro

Yeah without even looking at statistics I would have to say the 64 was more popular... the majority of my freinds or people I know that game will have more to say about that than a ps1. The ps2 is good, i still enjoy mine. Im glad I own one of each system I can get the best of all worlds wether its PC, PS2, Wii or 360, I can figure out what games I like and what system. Some systems are better for some games than others.

Camaroguy18

I guess there can't be any argument there...sony has never relied on it's first party developers, and only the Gran Turismo series has really been their strongpoint. Oddly enough though Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec has sold 11 million copies to date - the same as Mario 64, and beating out all of the others you listed (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ng_video_games) Placing faith in first party developers has always been risky and was the cause of Sega's demise, and low(er) N64 and Gamecube sales (Gamecube was rendered as a failure of 6th gen consoles for Nintendo...selling only some odd 21 million (N64 has sold 32 million to date), as opposed to nearly 118 million of PS2's, and 102 million Playstations) Making great first party games may make consumers happy, but history has proven that it isn't the best money-making strategy.

still....Wii is re-writing the books it seems, and I'm all for it

Amurican_Muscle

i have a wii too. all games are fun on it.

Karps TA

What the Wii has done for the most part is go back to making simple fun games. Developers over complicate games too much. They try to make everything so realistic that it stops being fun. Yes great graphics are cool and all, but when it comes down to it, I still have more fun playing older styled platformers. My favorite game for the Wii was Super Paper Mario. It may not have been a graphics giant, but it was simple to play, very old school, and that sucked me in.