Player1x3 said:
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1. You do know what "one of" means, right? Perhaps you should avail yourself of TakeMeToTheHospital's teaching services. :P
And no, the fact that it is around the same amount of sales as PS1 means nothing - there's precisely one console that noticeably outsold it, the PS2. At best, there's one more that is just a touch ahead, and the Wii is still selling. This makes it one of the best-selling consoles of all time. There's simply no disputing that fact, no matter how much you might want to jump up and down and scream "but PS1".
2. PS2 shipped more, maybe. That doesn't mean it sold more. Even if it had, though, he didn't say the system with the largest number of sales, he said best-selling. The DS sold better than the PS2 did, as demonstrated by the fact that, after 8 years, the PS2 had sold, at best, 130 million units, whereas the DS, having been out for just over 8 years, is now over 153 million. And the PS2 has stopped production, while the DS continues to sell.
3. The European launch was outside of the launch window for the system itself. That meant that all of the launch window titles were theoretically available on day 1 in Europe. It's a very different situation. But lets look at the numbers, anyway. Global numbers, that is.
Six calendar months PS3 sales, November 2006-April 2007 (includes European launch in March): 3.24 million
Incomplete three calendar months Wii U sales: 2.47 million
Do you really think that, across February, March, and April, the Wii U won't sell 800,000 units? Even with Monster Hunter Tri Ultimate, Lego City Undercover, Rayman Legends, and Injustice: Gods Among Us releasing in that time in the West, and Dragon Quest X in Japan?
Oh, but you want to complain that this is an unfair comparison, perhaps? OK, let's just compare the two regions for which we can all agree it's a fair comparison - US and Japan. The Wii U has been out (data available - to 19th of January) for 9 weeks in the US and 7 weeks in Japan. So lets get the numbers for each system across those two regions for those numbers of weeks:
Wii U: 989,000 US + 740,000 Jap = 1,729,000
PS3: 775,000 US, 398,000 Jap = 1,173,000
Why not include Europe? Because Sony was too slow in releasing in Europe - they had bragged about how they could do a better worldwide launch than MS (who hit Japan, America, and Europe, but failed to hit some of the minor regions, like here in Australia)... and then did worse. I'm sorry, but PS3 launch occurred in November 2006, you don't get to arbitrarily say "well, we only count regional release dates", because that's not how the market works - Europe doesn't exist in a vacuum. To make the point, PS3 sold 3.4 million units in the first 8 weeks after launch in Europe. By the same date, Wii (which launched in Europe around the same time as Japan and America, and around the same time as PS3 launch in those two regions) had sold 7.3 million units, and the PS3 was already the worst-selling console by week compared with all of the other gen 7 systems.
The only other way to fairly compare sales is across an entire year, because mid-year is different from end-of-year. Since we don't have an entire year's worth of sales to compare, that's going to have to wait.
At the end of the day, no matter how you cut it, Wii U in 2012 and early 2013 is doing significantly better than PS3 in 2006 and early 2007. If you want to do a comparison that includes European numbers, then wait until March or April, when the comparison will be a fair one across the systems. If you don't consider that to be fair enough, then wait until the Wii U has been out a year in each region, and compare 1-year sales numbers by region.
Or do you disagree with the assertion that releasing in one region 4 months late affects the sales numbers?
