Worldwide Wii sales are now only 4 million behind Xbox360 - closing the gap

[HappySqurriel]

Just some basic number crunching and excel fun... The 3 month to 12 month American sales ratio of all consoles (listed on Gamerankings): ( 3 month / 12 month ) = ratio Dreamcast: 1,138,500/2,110,500 = 0.708 Nintendo DS: 1,607,000/2,754,000 = 0.583 Gameboy Advance:1,876,000/7,682,500=0.244 Gamecube:1,362,250/2,634,500=0.517 N64:1,294,250/3,884,000=0.333 Playstation:340,500/1,421,500= 0.239 PS2:1,309,750/4,643,500= 0.282 PSP:1,341,750/4,396,250= 0.305 Xbox:1,789,000/3,526,750= 0.507 Xbox 360: 929,750/3,195,500= 0.290 Min: 0.239 Max: 0.708 Average: 0.401 *Realistic: 0.372 Using these ratios we get sales for the Wii at: Max: 7,214,999 Min: 2,439,435 Average: 4,308,240 *Realistic: 4,637,951 And sales for the PS3 at: Max: 4,322,946 Min: 1,461,614 Average: 2,581,329 *Realistic: 2,778,879 Which would mean for the rest of the year the Wii would need to average (approximately) Max: 600,000 per month Min: 80,000 per month Average: 290,000 per month *Realistic: 325,000 per month And for the PS3: Max: 365,000 per month Min: 48,000 per month Average: 172,000 per month *Realistic: 195,000 per month *Realistic removes the two highest and the two lowest ratios ... The only reason I made this post was so that people could understand how unprecidented it would be to see the PS3/Wii sell at some of the levels people suggest ...