So, I guess according to certain members' predictions in their sigs concerning end-of-year sales for systems, now the Wii will stop selling any more units from here 'til December. Reminders like that about why I project instead of predict console sales for the year are always nice...

remember the old thread debating if the wii would get to 30 mil before the 360 go to 20 mil? Looks like they hit it in the same week, but the wii got their first.

30.01 to 20.00

Wii wins.

that was off top of my head btw, i didn't do research but it was close enough

 I could have sworen that it was more.. I guess I'm blind.

For a comparison -

Wii hit 30M after 87 weeks on the market.

DS had sold 22M after 87 weeks.

Ps2 had sold 16M

GC had sold 8.5M


It took DS roughly 105 weeks to hit 30M

It took Ps2 roughly 130 weeks to hit 30M


This means, that Wii has averaged 344K/week from launch.

DS had averaged 285K/week

Ps2 had averaged 230K/week

Wii is also selling at roughly 3.66 times the speed of the gamecube.

The SNES used roughly 120 weeks to ship 30M.

The N64 used about 210 weeks to ship 30M

The GBA used about 100 weeks to ship 30M

Just to compare, Ps2 shipped 30M after roughly 100 weeks.

The NES shipped 10K for half of a year, more than 13 years after its release.

 Yea! Talk about a photo finish.

Yea it definetly did.  Let's hope Ninty finance reports keep it that way though haha.

Very nice! Too bad that Microsoft has this generation sealed up, since they were the first to 10m sales.

that bit almost made me spill juice on my keyboard

Hooray!