Nintendo Wii outsells everything else

Here is one for keeping things simple; the Nintendo Wii is expected to outsell by the 23rd every other “next generation” console on the planet according to VGChartz.com. They even have a spiffy graphic to go a long with that. The reality is that the Wii is fun to play and simple, everyone can use it, and use it well. The reality of the other boxes is that these are beefy big boys, and sometimes you just want to have fun. Both Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony’s PS3 have been plagued with problems.

You do not hear a peep out of Nintendo other than “people are having fun, good, carry on.”

VGChartz says:

Two years ago, very few analysts would have predicted the Nintendo Wii would be market leader this generation against the established Playstation and Xbox brands. But analysts can be in error: Vgchartz.com data, which is based on sample data from retailers all over the world indicates that the week ending August 23rd Nintendo’s Wii (which was released one year after the Xbox 360 in November 2006), currently standing at 10.57 million consoles sold, passed Xbox 360 lifetime sales of 10.51 million units, making Nintendo the new market leader in both the home and handheld videogame console businesses.

As weekly data from vgchartz.com shows(**), the console outsold Microsoft’s Xbox 360 by a margin of 2.3 : 1 worldwide on average each week since its release, selling at an even faster rate than the most successful console ever created, Sony’s Playstation 2, despite still being sold out in most major markets. Source: VGChartz.com

The numbers reported by VGChartz as they say are going to differ because they are tracking console sales that are put in peoples hands, not ones sold to chains, and then stored in warehouses. So in the longer run, it looks like the battle has been won by the quiet kid on the street, who figured out that maybe sometimes, it is easier to just keep it simple, have a good time, and do something you love to do.

In the mean time, all we can say is that the Wii rocks, it is a fun thing, but we also like the Xbox 360, we are still waiting for the PS3 price drops to come along before we get one.