The Wii/HD gap was 1.2 million ish at one point, and going in Wii's favour, so it was almost a dead cert 50% was going to happen. But then, shit happens.

Thanks, I saw that. So pretty much a shoe in for beating ps1. 

PS2 didn't suffer such a harsh downfall, and Wii doesn't have the benefit of the developing world. That's the only reason PS2 keeps on selling.

Wii isn't going to be launched in those countries. It's clear Nintendo want Wii to die down now so they can concentrate on Wii 2.

Seriously though look at the figures.

Wii is at 86 mill shipped and PS2 has surpassed 150 million and STILL hasn't ever shipped in a Q, less than 1.36, what the Wii has just shipped, surely that tells you something?

To be honest, I find it embarssing you think there is even a glimmer of hope. When all is said and done PS2 will likely be above 160 million, are you really telling me with the Wii winding down, and Wii 2 on the way, the Wii can double it's userbase???????

What? Just checked and it has sold about 2.5 million in the last quarter ( jan-mar 2011 ), so WTF?

As for the glimmer of hope, why so against it? Wii just has to continue selling at a small pace more than the PS2 to eventually catch up, in a few years time. But yeah, odds are definetly against it, that's for sure, though I don't see why Nintendo would want to kill it, it sells at a profit, so every Wii sold is some money made by them.

No, they Wii shipped 1.36 ... not anywhere near 2.5 mill.

Wii doesn't just need to outsell the PS2 by a small pace to beat it .. dude do the math.

Wii has to sell another 64 million units just to catch up to PS2, and PS2 is shipping at least 5 million a year currently ...

It's not gonna happen, let it go.

Don't know were you get your figures, but I went and checked on the vgchartz section, HW analasis, HW table, then Wii, total regions, Jan 02/2011 to Mar 26/2011, and it reads exactly 2,453,422 sales, so unless I'm doing something wrong, not sure where you got that from.

The maths? err not sure what you mean, but if the Wii sells, for example, 5 mill in a Q, and the PS2 3 mill, then every Q the Wii is catching up by 2 mill. Might take a long time, never said it wouldn't, but I'm not going to start predicting actual numbers here.

One last thing: the last line makes you sound so condescending.

Don't know were you get your figures, but I went and checked on the vgchartz section, HW analasis, HW table, then Wii, total regions, Jan 02/2011 to Mar 26/2011, and it reads exactly 2,453,422 sales, so unless I'm doing something wrong, not sure where you got that from.

The maths? err not sure what you mean, but if the Wii sells, for example, 5 mill in a Q, and the PS2 3 mill, then every Q the Wii is catching up by 2 mill. Might take a long time, never said it wouldn't, but I'm not going to start predicting actual numbers here.

One last thing: the last line makes you sound so condescending.

Not exactly your fault here. VGChartz just estimates numbers so they were way off this quarter since official Nintendo shipments turned out to be much lower. And this is a huge decline so the future looks hopeless at the moment.

Yeah, unless Nintendo go crazy and did what MS did with the Xbox and discontinue it 4 months before it's successor is due out, that said Nintendo arnt losing buckets on the Wii so no reason for them to do that.

March 2012 they should be at at least 96 million (that'd mean they shipped 10 mill this FY) another 7 million over 2012/2013 isn't difficult.

I know Wii is waning bad, but people on here have such poor foresight, it isn't going to just stop selling one day soon. It'll likely still be selling (in small quantities) in 2015