How fast is the Wii selling compared to the PS2?

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thismeintiel said:

nordlead said:

thismeintiel said:
Considering it's late here and I'm lazy, I'll ask you guys. How many Wii's will Nintendo have to sell this year to stay ahead of PS2?

depending on how you want to look at it, 0.

Are you telling me that if Wii sold no consoles for the entire year of 2010, it would still be ahead of PS2's sold for its respective year.  That can't be right, can it?

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=All&cons2=PS2&reg2=All&cons3=PS2&reg3=------&weeks=221
If you go by global sales from first launch that is indeed correct. The Wii just had it's 169th week, and it's at 67,510,630. We'd have to go all the way to the PS2's 221st week to pass that amount with 67,565,085. That's a full year later, which is obviously a few weeks past the end of 2010.

This could be considered "unfair" though due the staggered launch of the PS2; however, as Rol points out PS2 had shortages anyway, and even if that weren't the case I doubt the amount of sales over a 3+ year period would've increased drastically if it were available earlier.

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=Japan&cons2=PS2&reg2=Japan&cons3=PS2&reg3=------&weeks=221
http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=America&cons2=PS2&reg2=America&cons3=PS2&reg3=------&weeks=221
http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=Total+Other&cons2=PS2&reg2=Total+Other&cons3=PS2&reg3=------&weeks=221

Going by the same comparison of current Wii sales with PS2 sales after the 221st week:

	PS2	Wii	Difference
Japan	15,867,399	9,957,061	5,910,338
America	31,190,592	31,804,909	-614,317
Total Other	31,221,841	25,748,660	5,473,181
Total	78,279,832	67,510,630	10,769,202

So the Wii needs to sell 10.77M units by this time next year to remain ahead of the PS2 when aligning launches by region. Going back a few weeks to the end of 2010 would reduce that to about 9M units needed.