21 million ps3 sold

Varik

Sony has announced that 21.3 million PlayStation 3 consoles have now been sold around the globe.

That puts PS3 in third place behind Nintendo and Microsoft. Just under 45 million Wii consoles had been sold by the end of last year, according to Nintendo. Microsoft reckons it's shifted 28 million Xbox 360 units.

how many 360 do you think still work ?

smooch71

That's pretty impressive considering the Xbox 360 was launched a full year ahead of it.

The Wii is pretty untouchable though, who'd of thunk Nintendo would be the market leader for the 7th generation consoles??

K.O.Kiki

Cheap price + innovative/simplistic controls + family-friendly games: how could it fail?

inb4 "Wii is not next-gen"

L'prof

smooch71 wrote: »

That's pretty impressive considering the Xbox 360 was launched a full year ahead of it.

The Wii is pretty untouchable though, who'd of thunk Nintendo would be the market leader for the 7th generation consoles??

Everybody buys a Wii, I have one...don't use it too often though! Good to see the PS3 catching up with the 360 though!

bocha

good to hear as the last article i read said ps3 was on the rocks as being outsold by rivals, but as smootch71 says, xbox was out way before ps3, something that i'd forgotten.

L'prof

So the PS3 has averaged 9.97m units per year and the 360 has averaged 8.80m!

smooch71

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Cheap price + innovative/simplistic controls + family-friendly games: how could it fail?

inb4 "Wii is not next-gen"

I said 7th gen, not next gen. There's a difference!

Varik

hd gen for the 360 & ps3 and 2 gamecube in a smaller box gen for wii

smooch71

Varik wrote: »

hd gen for the 360 & ps3 and 2 gamecube in a smaller box gen for wii

Good point.

Still considered to be 7th generation though. Ps2 is 6th gen.

AlmightyCushion

I knew nintendo sold a lot of wiis but I didn't think they were that ahead of the competition. Fair play.

byte

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I knew nintendo sold a lot of wiis but I didn't think they were that ahead of the competition. Fair play.

Yeah, I didn't think they'd sold so many either.

When I first saw Wii, I thought it'd be just a gimmick that would fall by the wayside, but I couldn't have been more wrong.

noodler

I don't know whether to praise or berate them for the Wii. We can't knock the business plan but also don't praise video game companies for making a killing from crap games-here me out.

I think the Wii's ultra low attache rate is evidence of the gimmicky nature of the machine, how many of those 50m+ Wiis never get played once Mario Kart has become boring? Then again maybe I am looking at this all wrong, maybe I should praise Nintendo for making video gaming (Personally I'd use the term at a stretch) more socially acceptable? Or At least more socially involving?

Helix

smooch71 wrote: »

The Wii is pretty untouchable though, who'd of thunk Nintendo would be the market leader for the 7th generation consoles??

the wii was ALWAYS gonna steamroller this generation

GothPunk

This year should be interesting - Wii sales seem to be slowing in Japan but are still growing in the U.S. and the U.K., the Xbox 360 will have it's first full year at an appealing low price and the PS3 will most likely see a price cut of it's own.

So the PS3 has now beaten LTD sales of the GameCube, what's next? Original Xbox at 24 million?

Helix wrote: »

the wii was ALWAYS gonna steamroller this generation

I dunno Helix, most of the gamers I used to speak to laughed at the Wii when it was announced. Everyone called it a gimmick. Sure in hindsight I can really appreciate how they went with a 'blue ocean' strategy and really did something a bit innovative, but did you really predict that the little Wii with it's funny waggle would sell 50 million in two years?

For me I'm more impressed at the affect the Wii has had on the perception of gaming as a hobby. Now we have octagenarians out of their seats having a go at WiiPlay. The PS2 gave us our first casual gamers but it is the Wii that will be remembered for making them their main market. Maybe I'm giving too much credit to the Wii though, the DS Lite has certainly pulled it's weight.

giggsy664

What GothPunk said. The Wii is fun. But gets VERY boring VERY quickly. Haven't used mine in about 4 months. And that was when a cousin came over.

Of course, when I grew up with Playstation 1 (And many of ye grew up with Atari Jaguars etc). Now, said cousin is growing up with a Wii. The Wii is seen as a more family friendly console. It is the only console which actively encourages you to get up and move, and while PS3 has Sixaxis and Flower, it just isn't the same.
The Wii doesn't even have a free Internet Browser Unless you got the Beta Browser, and has almost no decent online titles (Exceptions are Mario Kart and SSBB). Whereas the other consoles have full fledged online services. Almost no games on the Wii are also available non-Nintendo (although many Wii titles are Nintendo franchises), and the Wii "Exclusives" are all "Who wants to be a millionaire" or "Deal or no Deal" or, my favourite, "Super fun carnival games".
Granted, it does have some good games, and those games are exceptional by the Wii standard, but the main pulling force behind the Wii is not its price, or its family friendlyness, its children wanting it for Christmas. If a child plays the same game on PS3, 360 and Wii, they will instanly go for the Wii because its "funner" because they get to move around.

Wii- 50
360 - 28
Ps3- 21
Ps2- More than 28+21+50.

Varik

here the thing wii games are crap but theres alot of the consoles, you still find there is support for the ps2 now,
the wii will never leave or be replaced the new playstaion/xbox will come and go before it leaves

FreeOSCAR

I think with a price cut the PS3 will catch up with the 360 by this time next year. However, its still a massive failure for Sony this generation sales wise, the amount of marketshare its lost this gen is huge.