| jorma said: 5.85 million global seems to be the latest figures from Nintendo themselves, so i guess it will take a while longer to catch up, unless the 360 figures are equally inflated.. |
5.84 million is from March 31st. They're selling around 1 million Wiis a month which would mean total sales are probably in the range of 7.0-7.2 million right now (and 360 sales are around 9.7 million). VGChartz lags slightly behind for good reasons that I'm sure someone else could explain far better than I. Seeing that the Wii is outselling the 360 globally by at least 600k August or September seems to be a good time frame to expect the Wii to pass it. However, I'm willing to allow the possibility that Halo 3 will move a decent number of systems this holiday season as the Xbox fanboys claim. Seeing as the Wii will still be supply constrained and not able to sell more than 1.2 million a month it is possible the 360 will briefly regain the lead in December by a few hundred thousand before losing it again in January. I don't think its likely though, it would have to sell 4-5 million units in holiday quarter, seeing as it's struggling to pass 1 million sold so far this year I don't think it'll be easy to do that. By March 31st 2008 I would expect the Wii to never look back from a 3-6 million sales lead.
