Just to give credence to what you said:

Strategy Analytics [Jul-05] (Worldwide Through 2012)
Sony PS3 - 121.8 million (61%)
Xbox 360 - 58.8 million (30%)
Nintendo Wii - 18 million (9%)
Total - 198.6 million

Kagan Research (U.S. Through 2010)
Sony PS3 - 56.5%
Xbox 360 - 28.5%
Nintendo Wii - 15%

Piper Jaffray (U.S. Through 2008)
Xbox 360 - 19.6 million (48.3%)
Sony PS3 - 15.5 million (38.2%)
Nintendo Wii - 5.5 million (13.5%)
Total - 40.6 million

Citigroup (U.S. Through 2008)
Xbox 360 - 19.8 million
Sony PS3 - 11.0 million

UBS [Jan-06] (U.S. Through 2009)
Sony PS3 - 23 million (43%)
Xbox 360 - 20 million (38%)
Nintendo Wii - 10 million (19%)
Total - 53 million

Friedman Billings Ramsey (U.S. Through 2010)
Xbox 360 - 24.6 million (40.7%)
Sony PS3 - 23.3 million (38.6%)
Nintendo Wii - 12.5 million (20.7%)
Total - 60.4 million

In-Stat (Worldwide Through 2010)
Sony PS3 - 50%
Xbox 360 - 28.6%
Nintendo Wii - 21.2%

Wedbush Morgan Securities (U.S. and Europe Through 2010)
Sony PS3 - 45%
Xbox 360 - 35%
Nintendo Wii - 20%

Merrill Lynch (Worldwide Through 2008)
Xbox 360 - 47%
Sony PS3 - 33%
Nintendo Wii - 20%

IDG (U.S. Through 2008)
Xbox 360 - 15.5 million (43.3%)
Sony PS3 - 13.5 million (37.7%)
Nintendo Wii - 6.8 million (19.0%)
Total - 35.8 million

P.J. McNealy (Worldwide Through 2007)
Xbox 360 - 21 to 23 million
Sony PS3 - 13 to 16 million
Nintendo Wii - 12 to 14 million

Yankee Group (North America Through 2011)
Sony PS3 - 30 million (44%)
Xbox 360 - 27 million (40%)
Nintendo Wii - 11 million (16%)
Total - 68 million

Nomura Securities (Worldwide Through 2011)
Sony PS3 - 71 million
Nintendo Wii - 40 million

Enterbrain / Famitsu (Worldwide Through 2009)
Sony PS3 - 34 million (39.1%)
Xbox 360 - 28 million (32.2%)
Nintendo Wii - 25 million (28.7%)
Total - 87 million

IDG (North America Through 2010)
Xbox 360 - 23.9 million (39.2%)
Sony PS3 - 23.5 million (38.5%)
Nintendo Wii - 13.6 million (22.3%)
Total - 61 million

Merrill Lynch (Worldwide Through March 2011)
Xbox 360 - 39%
Sony PS3 - 34%
Nintendo Wii - 27%

Strategy Analytics [Nov-06] (Worldwide Through 2012)
Sony PS3 - 121.8 million (59.47%)
Xbox 360 - 59.7 million (29.15%)
Nintendo Wii - 23.3 million (11.38%)
Total - 204.8 million

SFG Research (North America Through 2010)
Xbox 360 - 29.4 million (43.8%)
Sony PS3 - 24.2 million (36.1%)
Nintendo Wii - 13.5 million (20.1%)
Total - 67.1 million

SFG Research (Worldwide Through 2010)
Sony PS3 - 62 million (46.6%)
Xbox 360 - 46 million (34.6%)
Nintendo Wii - 25 million (18.8%)
Total - 133 million

Screen Digest (U.S. Through 2010)
Xbox 360 - 42%
Sony PS3 - 38%
Nintendo Wii - 20%

Screen Digest (Japan Through 2010)
Sony PS3 - 64%
Nintendo Wii - 25%
Xbox 360 - 11%

IDC (Worldwide Through 2008)
Nintendo Wii - 32.1 million (37%)
Xbox 360 - 30.4 million (35%)
Sony PS3 - 24.5 million (28%)
Total - 87 million

UBS [May-07] (U.S. Through 2010)
Xbox 360 - 22 million (35.5%)
Sony PS3 - 21 million (33.9%)
Nintendo Wii - 19 million (30.6%)
Tolal - 62 million

Gamespot was the only one who said the Wii would win, but that was their 2006 April Fool's Joke.

Ignorance really bothers me.

Its actually getting a fair share of both good and bad recognition; as well as good and bad bais. Its just these *new* journalists have managed to convince some gamers (usualy new gen), and even some sites (which are not really well known, and are relativley small) that the wii is its own league and wont ever be considerd a serious system. Yet, the wii is mopping the floor with its competitors.

People dont understand and will constantly deny the fact that the *industry* is diyng, regardless of all these hd games selling successfull. They dont understand that nitnendo is trying to replace that lost part of audience with a new generation who will someday become the new core gamers. Everything has to be balanced between keeping the core happy and the new kids on the block entertained but its proven to be a tad difficult.

Erm, aren't these numbers from early this gen? before anybody really thought the Wii would be a hit? At that opoint in time, it wasn't hate, it was what everybody believed (at the time) to be common sense. Nobody really knew the demographics which are very differant from last gen.

Don't you think with 95% of the analysts predicting Nintendo's downfall, the journalists would go along with it?

Look at how religiously they attach themselves to NPD sales.

I've posted all I needed to answer the OP's question in Page 1 and on this page. If the overall Wii hate is not apparent to you, you will never see it, or acknowledge it.

Yeah, early this gen.  Seriously, you have detatched yourself from reality here. The numbers you showed were not only from earlier this gen (before it really took off) they were also predictions. So far, you have only proved that the Wii was grossly underestimated...that my friend is hardly hate.That is just the result of people not understanding the gaming demographics for this gen.

^ok then ironman, explain why everyone is harping over a Wii HD, when its obviously not needed, Wii is still outselling the PS2 at the same time in its life, with fewer price cuts

I think the first of all its the Core Gamers the FSP WRPG Lover which buy the magazines and do research on the Web so the target audience for the media is the same as it is for the HD Consoles. The media is LIVING mainly because of the HD Consoles. The people which probably make more then 50% of the Wii consumers are NEW gamers which are not interested in investing much more time in Videogames, And the other 50% well,

Fact is the HD Consoles have the bigger marketshare so ofcourse the focus is mainly on the HD Consoles and Nintendo turned NON Gamers in Gamers with their new strategy. 25 Milllion GC owners have eventually the WII and the rest is just not interested in gaming information. So we have 50% WII Core gamer thats 25 Million and thats just 1/3 of the total audience. So its obvious why the HD Consoles just take more room. And the 3rd party developer just earn more money with the HD Consoles thats the reason why they focus on the HD Consoles.

Is this really new information ? The blue ocean strategy changed the market completly. The Gen before it was not that obvious but this Gen Nintendo aquired a lot of new gamers so the gamers are divided between Casual and Core. I use this terms to describe the difference between the gamers which were added to the market not to differentiate them by the games they play. GC gamers are for me Core gamers too because they are not new.


The Focus will change from HD to Wii in the second the released 3rd party games will be even more succesful then their HD Versions and the people which own the Wii would pay attention to Videogame news. The media is not really biased they are just interested in the same thing the audience is interested in. And as long as 3rd Party games are performing better on HD Consoles AND the audience will act the same way they are now the Focus will be mainly on the HD Consoles.

Wii has opened a new market. And the old one is divided between the Xbox and PS3 and at the moment the classical Console market is the bigger.

^Umm if they earn money on HD, then why are they posting large losses?

i think its cause of the lack of many 3rd party quality titles, if you take all the nintendo made games out of the wii u r left mostly with bad titles, there r excellent 3rd parties titles on wii but most of them are bad

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