NPD Comparison: First 4 months in the USA

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Yojimbo said:
I believe that N64 sold more the Wii in the same period. It really proves that the first 4 months does not show how the rest of the console sales will be. I really believed that GC would blow away the Xbox total sales but it really didn't.

When you could compare North American consoles the Wii had sold (roughly) the same number of units as the N64 had in the same time period. On the other hand Japan looks like this:

Week	Console 1	Date	Weekly	Total	Console 2	Date	Weekly	Total
1	Wii	12/03/06	373,787	373,787		N64	06/23/96	300,469	300,469
2	Wii	12/10/06	100,657	474,444		N64	06/30/96	255,607	556,076
3	Wii	12/17/06	108,775	583,219		N64	07/07/96	116,389	672,465
4	Wii	12/24/06	293,566	876,785		N64	07/14/96	87,704	760,169
5	Wii	12/31/06	110,999	987,784		N64	07/21/96	60,617	820,786
6	Wii	01/07/07	176,925	1,164,709		N64	07/28/96	48,843	869,629
7	Wii	01/14/07	98,678	1,263,387		N64	08/04/96	47,794	917,423
8	Wii	01/21/07	86,375	1,349,762		N64	08/11/96	50,600	968,023
9	Wii	01/28/07	85,457	1,435,219		N64	08/18/96	46,767	1,014,790
10	Wii	02/04/07	72,922	1,508,141		N64	08/25/96	46,767	1,061,557
11	Wii	02/11/07	76,346	1,584,487		N64	09/01/96	34,605	1,096,162
12	Wii	02/18/07	65,964	1,650,451		N64	09/08/96	28,642	1,124,804
13	Wii	02/25/07	86,342	1,736,793		N64	09/15/96	26,727	1,151,531
14	Wii	03/04/07	61,754	1,798,547		N64	09/22/96	16,980	1,168,511
15	Wii	03/11/07	48,772	1,847,319		N64	09/29/96	28,370	1,196,881
16	Wii	03/18/07	67,798	1,915,117		N64	10/06/96	16,243	1,213,124
17	Wii	03/25/07	84,495	1,999,612		N64	10/13/96	16,322	1,229,446
18	Wii	04/01/07	52,785	2,052,397		N64	10/20/96	17,886	1,247,332

 

The Wii has sold as many units in 18 weeks as the N64 sold in 42

42

N64

04/06/97

28,308

2,044,326

Also note that the Wii will likely break the year barrier by week 21

52

N64

06/15/97

10,561

2,191,581

The fact is that as much as people badmouth the N64 sales it performed pretty strongly in North America and it was its sales in Japan and Europe that hurt it

Console	Maker	Date	Japan	Americas	PAL	Total

 

Nintendo

Sep-2006

0.00 / 5.55

0.00 / 20.63

0.00 / 6.75

0.00 / 32.93

From the looks of it, Nintendo will surpass the N64's sales in Europe and Japan by the end of 2007 and will be well on the way of matching (or surpassing) the sales pace set by the N64 in North America

 

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