Console Race Stats
November 20th, 2006 by Gibran Nawaz in Business
There is a website that claims it uses market data and other various sources to calculate how many of each console has been sold. While unconfirmed, you can’t help but to look at it. The current standings are of Xbox360 at over 7 million sold, Wii with over 450,000 sold, and the PS3 coming at last place with about 250,000 sold.
NPD market data results aren’t out yet, so these numbers are only estimates at best. While all shipped PS3s are sold out (some 250,000), there are no official shipment nor sale numbers on the Wii. We’ll see more accurate results at the end of the month, combined with the weekly hardware sales in Japan, after the Wii launches over there, early next month.
Tags: Business
November 20th, 2006 at 4:26 am
Wii has already 550,000 units sold, in US alone. They’ll reach 2-3 million this year worldwide, impositive about that.
November 20th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Where do they get their numbers? Is there any indication that these are not just a shot in the dark?
November 21st, 2006 at 2:13 pm
The numbers are fake,
although I wish Wii sold as good as it shows
November 23rd, 2006 at 5:10 am
I think that they calculated the average system sold per minute or something and set it to that.
December 5th, 2006 at 9:04 am
While I do think that the current positions of the the consoles are correct, the numbers are not. Here’s what i found on wikipedia.org:
1st: X-Box 360 w/ 44 million units sold.
2nd: Nintendo Wii w/ 1 million units sold.
3rd: Playstation 3 w/ 556,400 units sold
All the numbers combine total sales worldwide. Again I am unsure if this is totally accurate, but this is the 1 I am currently going by.
December 5th, 2006 at 9:06 am
the 360 has sold 44 million???? … naw man … I don’t think so … someone obviously hacked that site and put in 360 fanboy fantasy numbers.
44 million … I don’t even know what to say to that.
December 5th, 2006 at 9:07 am
Never put all your trust in Wiki since anyone can add things to it … that is just one place to check then you need to verify the info against a more reliable and secure database. Zac … I am close to meeting my goal.
December 5th, 2006 at 9:10 am
Oh man I feel stupid now I didn’t know people could hack into and edit that website…my bad.
December 5th, 2006 at 9:27 am
Don’t feel stupid at all. You didn’t know .. it was an honest mistake … at least you made a good honest attempt to get us some numbers.