As I continue to prepare my massive mid year article, I occassionally run into things which are worth discussing right now.  Today I noticed the following: Wii will likely hit 5 million sold worldwide (just in 2007) by June 4.

According to the data on this website, Nintendo has sold 4,738,000 Wiis to gamers in 2007.  This information is not exact - I rounded all figures to the nearest thousand for each week in each region, so in theory it could be up to 21 weeks x 3 regions x 500 units rounding error off ~ 31,500.  Still, that would put Wii at between 4.70 and 4.77 million for the year..

Now, the data on the website is through May 27.  Through May 27, Wii has sold an average of 225,619 units per week.  That means if Wii has an average week, it will be at 4.96 million sold June 4.  The 40k would then be covered within 1.24 days of June 4, 2007 in an average week for Wii.  Even if Wii has a below average week, sales would reach 5 million by June 7-June 10, since Wii has yet to sell under 161,000/week in 2007.  With production up since that low week, Nintendo is all but guarenteed to clear 5 million Wiis sold in 2007 by June 5/6, with the mark possible as early as June 3.

For comparison, PS3 will pass 2.25 million this coming week, and 360 will pass 2.1 milion this coming week for the year to date.

In terms of monthly averages, Nintendo is on pace to sell roughly 12 million Wiis in 2007 (ignoring holidays, big games, etc), while PS3 and 360 are on pace for sales of 5.0 to 5.5 million each (ignoring holidays, big games, etc.).

When I go through the 6 month data for 2007 (data through July 1, 2007), I expect Nintendo to have sold about 6.2 million Wiis, Microsoft to have sold 2.6 about million 360s, and Sony to have sold 2.45 million PS3s. 

12 million is amazing even if you include the holidays, but that isn't including the massive holiday spike, wow.

Nintendo has sold roughly 8 million already.

Not since January... It is amazing that the Wii will get to 8M before the 360 gets to 10M, so much for that year head start...

I'm taking bets on which happens first: Wii reaches 9 million, or 360 reaches 10 million. Current odds are 2:1, in favor of 360. Weird how that number isn't larger.

Braces for the MS fanboy backlash when the Wii outsells the 360.

since 2007 started Wii = 4.38m units sold PS3 = 1.96m units sold 360 = 1.88m units sold PS3 has actually sold more than the 360!

PS3 had the Europe launch for a big boost and they sell more in Japan, so it makes up for getting beat in NA.

The margin is that slim between PS3 and 360 for 2007?

Hmm ...

You'd think with the European launch for the PS3, which netted near 800,000 consoles in two weeks, the gap would be much, much bigger. 

Gballzack your numbers for all three are low..to get this data I just went through the 21 weeks of 2007 for Americas/Others/Japan on this website.  Unless ioi has dramatically changed the totals since I last looked, the data adds up to 4,738,000 for Wii, 2,059,000 for 360, and 2,177,000 for PS3 (week ending Jan 7 to week ending May 27).

The interesting thing is..Nintendo said..3.19 million Wiis in 2006..

3.19+4.738 = 7.928.. as opposed to the 7.72 million on the front page so I'm thinking the 3.19 million was the shipped number OR Vgcharts/Nintendo is like 1-3% off in their estimations (still very accurate)