Global SW&HW up! (15th September)

[Dallinor]

CChaos said:

pezus said:

CChaos said:
Not to split hairs, but feeling all proud that the PS3 is outselling the Wii by any amount seems a little pointless, doesn't it? Not only is it a holiday console these days, but it's been known that the new iteration would be coming out soon even before the official date was given. I'm surprised the Wii has been selling anything at all for the past couple of months.

The Wii started to fade way before they announced the Wii U. 

Well...yeah, because it's the same age as the PS3, has sold almost a hundred million units, nobody really wants them anymore and hasn't really had anything too spectacular come out for it in, well, a year?

It's like feeling all proud because you just outran a guy in a wheelchair, that's all.

I guess it's a matter of perspective.

Rewind back the clock a few years and the very notion of the numbers looking like they are now would be deemed utterly ridiculous. You would literally be laughed at by a large portion of the community on this site.

Back then the sky was the limit for the Wii and we had some wild predictions of it selling in excess of 300 million units. The terms 'blue ocean strategy' and 'innovation' were bandied about and the PS3 was the console that was going to end the playstation line and force Sony out of the console hardware business forever.

Fast forward a few years:

15th September 2012:

PS3: 124,415

Wii: 38,312

It's a bit of a shocker.