When you could compare North American consoles the Wii had sold (roughly) the same number of units as the N64 had in the same time period. On the other hand Japan looks like this:

The Wii has sold as many units in 18 weeks as the N64 sold in 42

Also note that the Wii will likely break the year barrier by week 21

The fact is that as much as people badmouth the N64 sales it performed pretty strongly in North America and it was its sales in Japan and Europe that hurt it

Nintendo

Sep-2006

0.00 / 5.55

0.00 / 20.63

0.00 / 6.75

0.00 / 32.93

From the looks of it, Nintendo will surpass the N64's sales in Europe and Japan by the end of 2007 and will be well on the way of matching (or surpassing) the sales pace set by the N64 in North America

BTW this new editor rocks

Wow, those N64 numbers look more like the PS3 sales than the Wii.

Notice the similar decline in sales? 

Innovative gameplay? 

Where? 

While this can be interesting I think a 12 month data is needed to be fair. Moreover the Wii is still in major shortage as was the 360 at M+4.

I think these numbers show two things:

first, that the sales in the first four months of a consoles lifecycle don't decide the console war. (this one was obvious)

but second, and this is more interesting, that consoles with a head start often start slow and win the race at the end anyway, while consoles with a late launch need great numbers to come close. (In my opinion, N64 managed to come close in NA, but it was the only one with a late launch that had a chance).

this would lead me to the conclusion that x360 will be hard to beat and that only wii has a chance, while ps3 already lost. but this would ignore the fact that we are just talking about NA-Numbers.

You sure about that Xbox (original number). I'm pretty certain they sold about 700,000 units in both November and December 2001.