| Erik Aston said: "Note that software figures are largely incomplete." |
This.
I'm not trying to be anti-Wii here, but the fact is, there is no reliable data for Europe going back very far. VGC reports here that the Xbox 360 sold 2.3 million units of Software as of September 1st, 2007 - all the while the Wii had 6.6 million units of software life to date.
The issue with this is that the Weekly Worldwide Sellers page (the one I am assuming that everyone is citing to show Wii>X360 for SW) takes very little into consideration before September 2007. Life to Date in Others/PAL show the Wii wih 40.9m units, and the X360 with 21.2.m units. Again, problem is that 90% of X360 software sales show up during September 2007 and after.
If you use the Million Seller Database, which has some (if not all) estimated European/Other data for games >1m, we see glaringly different numbers for Others/PAL:
Wii: 36.0m
X360: 27.8m
So for Others/PAL data, this X360 number eclipses what is tracked by the Worldwide figure by roughly 6.5m units alone...Much closer to call, and it doesn't include games below 1m for either system, which would favor the Wii since it's data has been more available vs. older X360 games. By how much, know knows (could be small), but I'm betting its enough to call into question who's in the lead. Give it a few more months, though. I am sure by this Christmas, we'll see official press releases from VGC, and Nintendo about their software sales.
And for the record, this assumes that we're counting the 20 million copies of Wii Sports bundles as sold, and the 3 mllion copies of Forza/Marvel as sold as well, which further muddies the figures.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
