Who would have thought that such a feat were possible one year into the full next gen war between the rival consoles. It has been somewhat 13 months since both the Wii and PS3 launched, and at the time people had great expectations for the latter and not so great ones from the former.
Yet here we are, with the Wii ahead of it's rival by more than 9 million consoles sold to consumers. Quite astonishing really given the recent years of gaming history. What seems even more baffeling is that the Wii has yet to show signs of slowing down anywhere else than in Japan (now it seems that sales have picked up considerably). At the same time Sony and Microsoft are headbutting each other in a fancy to determine which will have week to week better sales WW. Both have rather good sales overall yet undeniably pale in presence of Nintendo's newest product. Indeed the only thing that can actually slow down sales is the consoles' own popularity, leading to massive hardware droughts, which ultimately helped its rival(xbox360) pull ahead in weekly hardware sales, if only for this week alone.
It must be clearly said though, that there is olny one winner in this christmas "contest of popularity" among video game console producers, and that winner in 2007 is undisputedly the Wii. True, maybe a little early to say so with 3 weeks until the end of December, yet given sale estimates for the last 3 weeks (this one included) the Wii has already sold approx. three quarters of a million more units of hardware than second place MS and about 4/5 of a million more than Sony. With this kind of trend, it's rather safe to assume the winning side is Nintendo (and that's not even counting all those DS's sold!)
In conclusion, the Wii has been outselling the PS3 by almost a 2,5:1 factor since launch, which is a very good outcome overall, but my question is, do you think that the Wii can continue performing in this manner? I personally think that it will come out on top either way, just not necesserily buy such a large margin. I suppose that the Wii will eventually settle down to have a steady 10-15% lead on each weekly sellthrough, with variations depending whether there are any special games comint out for each systems at any specific time......but probably not before August 2008.
Your thoughts, anyone?
Deep into the darkness pearing
Long i stood there
Wondering
Fearing
Doubting.