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

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Death2009 said: Alacrist said: At the most it will take Holiday sales. Like it TOOK Holiday sales in 06? The wii will NOT outsell the 360 in america and it will NOT sell enough to overtake it worldwide in euro sales leaving Japan...which Sony will keep enough of the sales to prevent a big N worldwide lead. The article said the PS3 is struggling...selling 440k a month american on average is not what i call "struggling". Add Japan and it's 669k a month worldwide...Bias artilce not knowing the numbers.

Yeah, the 360 took holiday sales with having it's first AAA exclusive and being the only new console where supply was higher than demand, by a significant amount. The lack of a new 360 announcement so far quiets the rumors of Microsoft's production reduction from console hardware change to the increasingly strong option of market supply saturation, thus why the 360 has yet to break 10 million, although it will probably break that number this month. Anyways, we can't really argue long-run numbers until the wii's demand is at least fairly smaller than the supply, but until that happens, the Wii is gaining ground on the 360, like it or not. The PS3 sold, in Jaunary, about 120k in Japan and 275k in North America. (390k total) The Wii sold, in January, about 400k in Japan and 480k in North America. (880k total) The 360 sold, in January, about 30-40k? in Japan and 330k in North America. (370k at most) I don't know Europe's numbers, but I'm more than sure the Wii is outselling the 360 there as well so far this year, and we'll have to wait and see for the PS3's launch. If you recall, England is still trying to fulfill Wii preorders from 3 months ago, according to an IGN article, and they've already sold about 1.5 million in Europe. Interesting fact : The Wii is outselling the PS2 at the same point in it's lifetime. :)