I was looking at a recent Matt Peckham posting ... The Feb. 22 piece in which he argues against Reggie Fils-Aime's prediction that the Wii will pass the Xbox 360 in the US by June.

I agree that the goal is ambitious. I do not agree Peckham's assertations that the Wii is going to become a paperweight to casual gamers or is the next fondue set.  (He also says that Microsoft dominates the Top 50 sales chart and predicts big sales for all the hyped games and says Wii has nothing after Brawl).

That Peckham is anti-Wii isn't new. What is is that his data appears to be VGChartz data.

 The U.S. difference between Microsoft and Nintendo stands at roughly 10.9 and 9.4 million units respectively, or about 1.5 million units.

The Feb. 16 chart tally had Xbox at 10,918,452 and Wii at 9,363,100 -- or 10.9 and 9.4.

(He also said  Wii Sports and Wii Play may have more overall sales, but Microsoft effectively owns the rest of the top 50 chart). The Feb. 16 weekly chart had showed that the X360 sold about 1.1M to Wii's 692K software. The X360 had 17 games in the top 50 while the Wii had 11. And remember, this was the week the Wii is credited with less than 50K sales and was outsold by the X360 because there was NO hardware stock).

Link to PC World Blog: http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006532.html

Mike from Morgantown

Who?

I duno who ryour talkig about but hes a morno. I hate it.

Never heard of him.

Not only does seem to be news to most people, but who he is seems to be a mystery as well!

this is news to mwe. WHy is he antifwii?

Awesome that someone else is using VGChartz data for gaming analysis.

Considerably less awesome that he's cherry-picking worse than Crazzyman. (Sure, pick a week with ZERO hardware in stock to demonstrate the weakness of Wii software sales!)

Actually... it is crazyman!

You should include a link when you post stuff like this. So we can visit his site, read his editorials etc and educate ourselves about him. I have no idea who this guy is.

Poor analysis from Peckham.

He's known for being anti-Nintendo anyway. A recent gem of a quote being, "Sony's going to retake the Japanese market from Nintendo probably sooner than later...."


To further deconstruct his article, I present the following:

"It took "Wii Fit" seven weeks to hit one million units, and "Wii Sports" a full 11. SSBB should easily fly past one million in less than four."
----Actually, Pekham it took just 11 days of which took place prior to your publishing the article.


"But moreover, it's not looking pretty for Nintendo post-June...."
----Looks to me like someone else with a big mouth in the industry didn't pay attention when NOA stated they will no longer provide much in the way of news for distant projects. What we know of now is just Q1-2 because that's all they planned to reveal thus far. Q3-4 will be revealed at E3. Everybody in common contact with NOA knows this yet he uses this new policy as a target against Nintendo's post June line up.

"Microsoft's been consistently clobbering Nintendo and Sony in software sales...."
----
2008 US software sales.
X360 - 7,407,695
Wii - 6,580,349

2007 US software sales.
X360 - 50,862,901
Wii - 40,680,137

His definition of clobbering and my definition of clobbering must not be the same. I mean it's only natural for a system with a larger install base to sell more software....right? And I'd hardly call those a clobbering.


"Wii Sports and Wii Play may have more overall sales, but Microsoft effectively owns the rest of the top 50 chart."
----
Number of titles in the 2008 US top 50 charts.
X360 - 16
Wii - 14

And this guy gets paid to spew such egregious fallacies?