Yeah right except PS2 will be somewhere around 160M or more at that time if Sony sells it succesfull in low income coutries (remember it had official India release not that long ago).

@ scottie

thanks for correcting me on the ps2 sales but i will still hold to my opinion that wii will not pass ps2 sales and will not reach 150million

fair enough. When do you believe the Wii will drop below the PS2 on the aligned launch sales chart?

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=All&cons2=PS2&reg2=All&cons3=&reg3=All&weeks=156

i believe it will hit around 100-120 million lifetime....

and besides if a wii2 were released it would be around the same price or slightly higher than the original wii.. and the differenece between wii and wii2 wouldnt be as large as the ps1 and ps2 or ps2 and ps3 therefore more people convert over to wii2 rather than buy the original wii

The 140m shipped PS3s is from a mistaken Kaz quote in August. He meant 130 million based on comparisons with Sony's own figures. Check the Official Big 3 Quarterly/Annual Results thread for more information. Sony had shipped "nearly 130 million" PS3s through March 2008, and then through September 2008 they were at 133.8m shipped worldwide. I'd imagine they shipped at least 2-3m for the quarter ending December 2008, though those results aren't in yet.

Official results from Sony will likely put them at 138.5m or something through December.

This article is misleading by the way - PS3 is only performing like GC in the USA which is where the 6.9m in 26 months is from. Game Cube never sold 75% as well as PS2 as the PS3 is doing in Europe at $400. The performances in Japan are strikingly similar though I'll admit.

What a freaky avatar...

Maybe someone can clarify this long time 'rumor' for me..is it true sony counted consoles that were fixed as consoles sold?

Anyway, I think its becoming close to being an inevitability that Wii will eventaully become the highest selling console ever. And to all ppl believing that once the Wii's successor comes out the Wii will automatically just stop selling...But on the other hand continue to believe the PS2 will continue selling for another 2 yrs even though its successor has already been out 2 yrs, gimme a break..You cannot have it both ways. Every marketleading console has continued selling well into the next gen.

Shipped I think so , Fixed ? I don't .

Wow.... a prediction made based on actual data.

Unheard of!

Techinically fixed consoles would be shipped.

What sony would count used to be the number of PS3's they've made.  Rather then sold.

So replacements would of counted.  Not fixed though.