Gilgamesh said: It died just as fast as it came out really. The Wii peaked after being out for two years, which usually a console peaks at 3 or 4 years and it had one of the biggest declines in sales for a console ever especially for a first place console. To go from highest selling every week to a third place console and second place console both doubling its sales weekly in such a short period of time tells you something. |
It peaked early because its sales were insanely high but if you look at the year-end charts you'll see Wii only fell into third place in 2011. It was the number one selling console worldwide for 4 years.
Year | X360 | PS3 | Wii |
2006 | 6,801,532 | 1,252,040 | 2,954,781 |
2007 | 7,879,552 | 7,922,055 | 16,553,289 |
2008 | 10,913,123 | 10,204,758 | 24,188,263 |
2009 | 10,160,518 | 12,997,974 | 21,295,417 |
2010 | 13,253,914 | 13,941,153 | 17,320,956 |
2011 | 13,808,365 | 14,128,407 | 11,567,105 |
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