| WhiteEaglePL said: So? Hardly a difference. |
This is actually a pretty big deal, never before has the market leader been caught in software sales in this manner and this is quite an amazing feat when you consider how large the gap in userbase and hardware sales was between the Wii and the PS3/360 for a long time. It is also worth nothing that about 40% or more of the Wii's software sales is 1st party developed or published, which is also a relevant part of the equation as a whole.
Around January 1st 2009, the Wii had sold a whooping 43.6 million units while the 360 was at approx. 27 million and the PS3 at 19.6 million and this gap actually grew and by January 1st 2010; the Wii had sold 64.6 million, the 360 37.4 and the PS3 was about half of the Wii with 32.85 million lifetime.
Looking at those figures; if someone had said to you at the time that in November 2014 there would be a topic revolving around the fact that the 360 had outsold the Wii in software and the PS3 was right behind (all this even excluding digital), would you have shrugged and figured it was no big deal?
This is a huge deal and a historic turn of events for a console generation, the 7th gen broke all traditions and rules at every turn and this is yet another cog in the strange machinery that is the 7th generation of consoles.
Also; posts like this are not relevant to the topic and add nothing to the discussion, consider this a public warning to everyone in the thread.
