Wii outsells PS3 by 3 to 1 News

Imagine how well they'll both sell when there's something worth playing on them...

Too many stats for this early in the morning.

i dont see how this is a gap narrowing, it just isnt increasing its lead by as much as it has been. there is talk of shipments being lower in japan to increase allocation to here and the US

I DEMAND MORE STATS

Who's Will?

"there is talk of shipments being lower in japan to increase allocation to here and the US"

but it's easy to get a wii here - shops normally have them in stock these days.

Surely the gap between the Wii and the PS3 will only narrow once (actually I should probably say IF) the PS3 starts to outsell the Wii. At the moment I'd say that the gap between them is still increasing, just at a slower pace.

It's all about the games. Wii and PS3 don't have any worth buying the system for yet. Wii is an impulse purchase for all kinds of gamers even with it's lack of lots of good games.

Xbox360 is still where it's at, can anyone not list all the good games available for 360 without getting RSI?

Go Will, go Will.
It's your birthday
It's your birthday.

i cant wait to get me one of those tintendo Wills!

What headache said.

The subtitle plain wrong - the gap is still widening, just at a slower rate than it was before.

/pedant.

Anyway, seems like sales were a bit flatter across the board, so I wouldn't imagine this is anything for Nintendo to worry about. It's still pretty unprecedented for stock shortages to continue this long after a console's launch, so they must be pretty pleased. I'm sure there's be a bit of a spike towards Christmas too.

Ppl talk about PS3 getting bad press, but I can only imagine if 360 had library and features (more lack of both) that Sony machine has. XBox would be dead. Sony is very, very lucky, and manage to survive on the "ooooh its a Sony"-thing.

Headbog... you don't believe VGchartz do you?

It's all about the games. Wii and PS3 don't have any worth buying the system for yet. Wii is an impulse purchase for all kinds of gamers even with it's lack of lots of good games.

Xbox360 is still where it's at, can anyone not list all the good games available for 360 without getting RSI?

Nice advertisement but in Japan?

I want a Will.

The gap in numbers is still increasing, but the rate of growth of the gap in numbers is not.

Someone at EG has forgotten their calculus [/nerd]

And "Will"!!? Come on guys....

Even if it's the case that the gap between PS3 and Wii in weekly/monthly sales is closing, I'd expect this to all change once Mario Galaxy comes out. Not to be a PS3-hater, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't have a game releasing between now and Xmas that 90+% of the platforms owners will buy.

Galaxy is pretty much a guaranteed purchase for existing Wii owners, and it will no doubt be sold with just about every Wii console sold in the Xmas rush.

Could argue there'll be nothing *else* to buy for the machine but my point stands.

The gap is narrowing but the REAL gap (total sales) just gets bigger and bigger. The question is, if there comes a point when PS3 is outselling Wii, how long will it take to make up this early deficit?

"Even if it's the case that the gap between PS3 and Wii in weekly/monthly sales is closing"

It isnt. Someone at Eurogamer failed at maths.

William G Stewart 20 to one.

Slow news day, huh?

someone is as bad at spelling as at making stats

Miiiguel: Ok, I agree about the PS3 game library lacking, but lack of features? I don't know any machine that can do more than the PS3. What kind of features do you mean?

Don't use nextgenwars.net unless you enjoy cleaning your PC from Spyware and Malware.

Stop releasing these figures - its just fodder for fan-boys.

@headbog
You're linking a page that has this as one of its news articles:
http://nexgenwars.com/gaming_news/545/Ha...

o_O

Will? Seriously?

mkreku: rumble. It is a big deal to me. Imagine MS having a speech like "we don't need to pay for rumble"; "we don't need games"; "we know you need this great thing we invented and called the Blu-Ray", just imagine where the XBox brand would be now -> dead.
And imagine PS3 with 360 games (and rumble, and price, and even without Blu-Ray, heck... the same box, just with the Sony logo on it)...: it would have sold 453534 millions by now. Why?: "ooooooh it's a Sony!"

has anyone compared the 360's ACTUAL sales figures for its first year and compared it to the the PS3's sales figures?

I seem to remember the same complaints about 360 during its first year (overpriced, no games etc)

You have to remember that the ps3 arrived later and is on a different time-scale to the already established 360.

It will all balance out eventually, until then, ignore the statsa nd enjoy your chosen console, its all sales bs anyway!!

The relative gap is narrowing, but in real numbers, Wii continues to pull further and further ahead

But then it wouldn't be Eurogamer without a strapline that was sensationalist, obtuse, deliberately misleading or just plain wrong would it?

My NOD says that vgchartz wants to install a trojan on my computer.

PS3 sales were bumped by MnG 5. Though interesting that Wii has dropped off 38% compared to the PS3 11%. Bladestorm was released on 30/8 and sold 40,000 on its first day, another big hitter for the PS3. The 360 is still doing terribly in Japan. Sells less in Japan in one month than the PS3 in one week and the PS3 has far less games. It's getting outsold 20 to 1 by the Wii. Without MGS4 and FFVIII it is screwed.

Bah, I think there are enough of these threads now. It just inspires the same users to come on make a random comment including the words and phrases "wiilol" or "ps3 has no games ROFL!!!". because the 360 launched with an excellent line up, eh? Anyway, besides the point. Who fucking cares. WE're gamers here, not market analysts, let's do what we supposedly enjoy doing most - play games, amd maybe even talk about games.

All this my console is bigger than your console bollocks is really grating. Who...cares. If you think your 360 is so superior to everything else on the fucking planet... go and PLAY on it, rather than spam forums about how the other consoles suck.

@Katsumoto: Yes indeed!

I can't stand people who say we're all gamers, let's all play together and stop fighting.

Damn hippies need a reality check.

And my 360 is better than your console, and I'm playing Bioshock on it, so suck balls.

I'm playing bioshock on my pc, so suck mine more?!? As it looks better on mine?! rofl rofl

Will?

I thought slavery was abolished.

@headbog
"For a truer picture of how it is doing in Europe and America - take Japan out of the equation"

Surely you mean: "For a perspective which supports my point more, lets remove Japan".

Why can't you just see it as x number of consoles sold by MS, x number of people happy.

Y number of console sold by Sony, y number of people happy.

Ditto for Will.

EDIT:
And this: "So, if it weren't for the bias Japanese have against American games and consoles". WTF? Do you understand cultural differences? Are we all supposed to find the exact same games entertaining?

Sooooooo the PS3 is gaining popularity then?

If all three consoles sold equally in all parts of the world, what the fuck would we talk about?

"Are we all supposed to find the exact same games entertaining?" - Do you know which games sold more on the PS3 ?
- Motorstorm
- CoD with Aliens (but worse)

Shock! A racer and a shooter! PS-only gamers love their RPG's don't they ?

Why doesn't Japan like the 360? Is it patriotism?

The Will sales are testament to Nintendo.

Ellie is one of these people in the Gamestation ads "Have you got Malteaser Galaxy for the Nintendo Will?"

thepiedpiper: post Hiroshima syndrome.

For example, it must be the only country in the world where Sony MP3 player outsells iPod.

@miiiguel
What on earth is your point? Note also I didn't even mention PS3. Are you saying its wrong to enjoy Motorstorm and Resistance?

Game most sold on 360; Gears. Oh its an fps. What does that not count because it is a slightly saturated genre? No, enjoy it because its a good game, and whilst I share your sentiments on Motorstorm, I happen to think Resistance is a good blast.

Note: I actually have no idea whether Gears is most sold, but it wouldn't surprise me.

"post Hiroshima syndrome.

For example, it must be the only country in the world where Sony MP3 player outsells iPod."

yeah, there is an element of that I think.

zuljin: didn't want to sound harsh (toneless speech), I just wanted to state that many gamers (consumers) base their choices on a brand, a name, a "skin thing". They don't (most) think: "let me see... which system should I buy, this has these games, and that...", no. They think "oooooh it's a Sony!, I want!".

See you lot later, just going for a Wii, And a Wii fit..

Back in ten.

"They think "oooooh it's a Sony!, I want!"

one time i was buying something in gamestation when this random dude started telling me he was playing tennis by actually swinging a racket on his sisters new Sony Wii and he was going to buy one....i had to laugh

I'm used to EG typos and misleading information, but both in the front-page headline? Isn't that a sign of the apocalypse or something?

On the sales, the fact Wii still pulls ahead is a good reminder that it's not what you got, it's how you market it and the Wii (and the DS) have been very cleverly marketed. This leads to sales and to perhaps one of the largest profits Nintendo has seen in... well. Ever! It also means, since they make a profit on each machine, they're much less reliant on churning out games for the sake of it - yeah, it's meant a games shortage but since it seems most have been perfectly happy with Wii Sports, this for the most has meant nothing to anyone but the core gamers (Who now seem to be getting some Wii love!).

Anyway, I think the PS3 will need to do something extraordinary to close the gap quickly... time to pull off that FF7 remake?

"Why doesn't Japan like the 360? Is it patriotism?
"
It has nothing to do with patriotism. It's just that the Japanese are terribly anal when it comes to reliability in electronic hardware, the original Xbox had a lot of hardware failures over there which originally put the Japanese off the brand, and the 360's hardware problems have just made the situation worse.
Combine that with the limited selection of games tailored to the Japanese market means that nothing short of DQ10 or FFXIII exclusivity on the format will save it in this particular region.