Interesting stuff, it looks like the Wii may never reach that 50% mark, the Xbox 360 may see to that.

Another thing I wonder is if the Xbox 360 may pull ahead of the Wii within a couple of years in the U.K. which would be the first major country where the Xbox brand reached first place in a generation. The sales are close now weekly and a good holiday season could really tip things towards the green quite strongly.

The real question for the 360 is what will the YoY be come the 1 year anniversary of the price cut

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 08th Jun 2008 to 27th Dec 2008:

These are the results for the rest of the year. But you see the Xbox 360 can now go down to 7M and still remain level for the rest of the year based on performance up until now. So that means the Xbox 360 could be down almost 11% for the rest of the year and still come out even on the YOY stakes. This is pretty close to how the PS3 performed last year actually without a price cut remember the sales during the holiday season?

So the 360 is the only home system that´s up YOY.

The Wii may get that 50% marketshare, but relative to its time, it still doesn´t compare to the monster that was the NES.

@kowenicki

Have you noticed this is the second week in a row where the PS3 sells below 100K?

@kowenicki

BTW, can you make a 2008 vs 2009 sales for the handhelds, I wanna see how DOWN the handheld market is compared to the console market

@JGarret

yeah we have & the 360 will probably follow it in 1 or two weeks unfortunately

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Down by 20% is never good......but I'll give the PS3 the benefit of doubt due to the insanely high price & the recession

for the wii.....I dunno what to say, this is the console that was selling out with no software releases a year ago after all......its obvious momentum has been crushed

Would be interesting to see what we get on the fiscal year for Nintendo ( it starts April 1st).


Well it's 2,436 millions vs 5,025 million units.
Little over 50% down .

I think it's not impossible that around September we see weeks where worldwide for the week the Wii will not be on top....

 New Super mario bros. wii, monster hunter 3, wii sports resort, Wii fit, possible price cut beg to differ.

I don't think anyone expect more from MH3 than a temporary sales spike ( at best it will have the same effect MGS4 had for the PS3 in Japan). But over the long run the impact on HW sales shoudn't be that big.

New Super Mario bros won't be released by September and I think you can make the case on how much it will spike sales seeing how it's not the first ( or the second) Mario game this gen.

WSR impact on sales in Japan has demonstrated that sequel don't really boost hardware that much.

Besides, before boosting HW sales those titles will have to  first stop the sales downwards trend for the Wii, if they manage just that it will already be a success for Nintendo...

Right now before boosting sales back to 300k/400k week level ( if it is doable) the Wii sales need to stabilize at a new plateau instead of falling lower every week. ( this week Wii sales are going to be around 190k, the lowest since September 2007).

You said around september which means you mean it will also happen in other months. You're forgetting that sweet MH3 black wii bundle you know... I really don't see xbox360 selling more then wii...

And lets first see how much hardware wii sports resort boosts in other countries then Japan and in the long run before we judge that one.