TheBigFatJ said:
I would argue that selling 3/4ths as many units as the Xbox is "didn't do very well compared to the Xbox." Especially when you consider that Nintendo was well established. Nintendo themselves said that if they only sold as many Wiis as they sold 'cubes, it would be a failure.  Still, it didn't do terrible in the US against the Xbox, but it didn't do very well against it either.
4 million shouldn't be a big gap, but it's a huge relative gap when you're talking about 12.4 and 16.3 milion units sold. |
Why are you looking at U.S. only? You might as well be looking at Sierra Leone only, or Togo only, or Italy only, or Uraguay only. One country means nothing. There are only 300 million people living in the United States. That's small compared to China's 1.5 billion, or India's 1 billion. This is the reason why you must look at world-wide sales figures.
Gamecube is at around 21 million, and Xbox is around 24 million. At least it was for a while. I think Gamecube has beaten Xbox by now. Microsoft stopped making Xbox consoles about a year ago. I think Nintendo is still making Gamecubes, so by now, or at least, in the soon future, the Gamecubes should have outsold Xboxs by now.
