Lifetime Xbox 360 sales set to overtake Wii in UK

Microsoft outsold rival by more than 4:1 in 2012, according to Chart-Track data

Lifetime Xbox 360 sales look certain to overtake those of current-gen leader Nintendo Wii in the UK.

Microsoft's console was less than 200,000 sales behind Wii at the end of December, having sold over four times more units than Wii in 2012, according to data supplied to CVG by GFK Chart-Track.

Nintendo UK confirmed before Christmas that around 8 million Wii consoles had been sold in the UK.

Despite a reported 33% decline in video game console sales last year, Xbox 360 is said to have outsold its current-gen rivals by a "significant margin" in Britain during 2012.

Nintendo DS and PlayStation 2 remain the UK's first and second best selling games consoles respectively, with Wii and Xbox 360 currently in third and fourth spots.

Globally Nintendo still has breathing space between itself and its current-gen rivals.

As of September 2012, Wii had sold through 97 million units, compared to Microsoft's 70 million Xbox 360s sold worldwide (October 2012) and Sony's 70 million "sold in" PS3s (November 2012).

In the US, industry research firm DFC Intelligence predicts Xbox 360 will also overtake Wii to become the region's best selling system for its generation.

Unlike Nintendo, Microsoft has seen its console peak during the later years of its life-cycle, the firm wrote in an analyst note this month.

"The success of Microsoft and the Xbox 360 during the past two years highlights a radical changing of the guard in the game industry.

"Much has been made about a steady video game sales decline in the past three years. In reality the decline has mainly been due to the aging console systems and more importantly because of Nintendo's collapse."

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata suggested earlier this month that Wii U sales "are not bad, and I feel it's been selling steadily", although he admitted to unbalanced inventory levels after the company failed to anticipate the amount of demand for the premium version of the console.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/388568/lifetime-xbox-360-sales-set-to-overtake-wii-in-uk/

It's matter of time to Wii be outsold in every region but 360 or PS3.

So both Wii and 360 are overtracked on VGZ?

The only thing we can learn from this article is that the gap between 360 and Wii was less than 200k at the end of the yeat. We had it at 100k, so the gap should be ~75k bigger than it currently is.

"around 8 million Wii consoles" and "before Christmas" can mean a lot of things.

EDIT: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-11-30-wii-u-nintendo-hopes-fears-why-hardcore-fans-secret-weapon

That comment was made at the end of November.

OT:
Saw this on Gaf:

PS3 numbers:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-10-11-5-million-playstation-3s-have-been-sold-in-the-uk

5m passed during week of 13th October.
We have it at 5.173m

Nothing unexpected here. The Wii is slowly dieing. It had a good run though.

Over 4x more than Wii in 2012?

360 - 1,062,148
Wii - 285,063

Either 360 is undertracked by ~100k or Wii is overtracked by ~35k.

After the MS results, Im leaning towards the former.

UK is 360 land.

It will be interesting to see on how the new Xbox and PS will fare in UK.