Xbox 360 Sales Nearly Double That Of The Wii

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It would seem the Xbox 360 is still dominating the competition. The PS3 remains in second place and the former king of the consoles is now in third place.

Microsoft sold 360,000 Xbox 360 units in the U.S. last month, easily besting all other hardware competitors. In second place was the PlayStation 3 with 260,000 units sold. Nintendo sold 190,000 Wii units in September, Pachter estimated.
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I'd guess it's a combination of the casual Wii buyers having already bought it, a lack of major titles (compared with the 360 and PS3) this Fall, and the Wii U announcement causing the late-buyers to hold off.
Not too surprising. The Wii's time has passed.
 
Yeah, I have no plans on buying the Wii U, it doesn't look very revolutionary except for the controller. The hardware will still be 5 years behind the times.

Sign me up for the next PS console. I have no interest in an Xbox 720.

I just hope we see new consoles in 2012-2014
 
Fail said:
Yeah, I have no plans on buying the Wii U, it doesn't look very revolutionary except for the controller. The hardware will still be 5 years behind the times.

Sign me up for the next PS console. I have no interest in an Xbox 720.

I just hope we see new consoles in 2012-2014
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You and me both. Then PC games can finally start to look better.
 
scojer said:
You and me both. Then PC games can finally start to look better.
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That's sad. PC games looking better only because consoles games start looking better? :( As much as I like Halo and CoD4, I sometimes wish those two were never made, and the console FPS/prioritization never took off.
 
i think i will get a Wii this xmas if i see a decent sale for it, or xbox actualy but would rather get a wii wana play the new zelda lol, the last one to actualy

we probly wont see the next xbox and next ps till 2014 i think 2013 maybe no way will there be any next year

meh pc gaming ftw lol
 
Savi said:
i think i will get a Wii this xmas if i see a decent sale for it, or xbox actualy but would rather get a wii wana play the new zelda lol, the last one to actualy

we probly wont see the next xbox and next ps till 2014 i think 2013 maybe no way will there be any next year

meh pc gaming ftw lol
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Unless there are games you just must play or you'll kill yourself, pass on the Wii....you'll use it for like a week and then never use it again.
 
Bigbacon said:
Unless there are games you just must play or you'll kill yourself, pass on the Wii....you'll use it for like a week and then never use it again.
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This.

Sold mine over a year ago since it wasn't used. I played with it for about a week then it sat.
 
Bigbacon said:
Unless there are games you just must play or you'll kill yourself, pass on the Wii....you'll use it for like a week and then never use it again.
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This was my case, its really just collecting dust in my living room.
 
Who the hell is buying them? :confused:

I don't think it's anywhere near the wii in overall sales yet (and the wii still hasn't reached the PS2).

Meanwhile in japan, I wonder if they sold 300 this week now that several stores have stopped stocking the games :D
 
I want a Wii, with its unique motion controller, now that I have an HDTV, to get my new Wii before the Wii HD comes out next year.

Oh wait, not wonder Wii sales are way down.
 
I'm thinking early Christmas purchases. With the Kinect hype going on all year, the 360 will be a hard find come Christmas.
 
question is: how many of those 360's are replacements for models that Microsoft refuses to repair or replace.
 
Saist said:
question is: how many of those 360's are replacements for models that Microsoft refuses to repair or replace.
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Probably fairly few at this point.

That first run or two of consoles that had serious issues is only going to be in circulation for so long. after so many years, id say most of these sales are proper.
 
Of course for almost 5 years the Wii had been selling about double what the 360 has.
 
In other news: childhood depression is up as an estimated 190000 children report being "way more depressed than usual" in the month of September.
 
I played with a Wii for about 10 minutes at a store when it first came out and only a handful of times afterward in the homes of friends. It's a novelty, just like 3D, and it seems that novelty has worn off. Kinect has more promise since it doesn't require the player to actually hold a controller, which I see as being as the better next step to immerse a player in a game.

As for the argument about PC versus console and which industry pushes the other: PC's have gone through a 'consolification' recently to circumvent the cost and tedium of constant upgrading and tweaking. A gamer rarely has to upgrade anything if they buy a console system, but a PC gamer might have to make a large financial investment to enjoy a new game (newer processor, faster GPU, more RAM, etc.). While the quality may be superior on a PC and likely always will be (and will always push the console makers to better their systems as far as visual and audio fidelity goes), the vast majority is not willing to commit large amounts of money on the hardware just to run the software. We tend to lose sight of this because of our hardware enthusiasm, but most people would rather 'set it and forget it' than constantly tweak something to perfection. It's kind of like how people use their phone or point-n-shoot cameras instead of vastly superior but more expensive DSLR's. Nobody wants to pay for the hassle of constant tweaking when a simple automated solution will get them 90% of the way there.
 
That is because anyone who would buy one has already bought one.


I have two myself, seldom ever used.
 
yojimbo said:
A gamer rarely has to upgrade anything if they buy a console system, but a PC gamer might have to make a large financial investment to enjoy a new game (newer processor, faster GPU, more RAM, etc.).
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At least we've gotten to a point for a while were RAM may not be an immediate concern. By 12GB of DDR3 ram for $120.00 or so and your G2G for the forseeable future(5 years). I doubt, we'll be seeing a game requiring more than 12GB of ram as the minimum system requirements for the rest of this decade, let alone 5 years. As long as new motherboards continue to support DDR3(and times between DDR revisions usually do take a few years), we should be good.

Newer processors/gpu's never hurt though.
 
We got my son a Wii for Christman when they first came out, thanks to a friend with two sons camped in lines are two seperate stores figuring one of them would get one and then both did. He loves it and played it extensively up until recently.

Just under two years ago my wife and son got me a PS3 for Christmas, I had been debating one as my dvd player was dying a slow death and at the time they were the cheaper then a decent bluray player. I've played it some, although I am used to first person shooters on the computer and couldn't adapt.

Last month we broke down and bought a Gears of War special edition xbox 360 and my son, who is now 12, is still bouncing off the walls. I've played it some, and while I still prefer gaming on my PC but I do seem to be adapting to the controller easier thent eh PS3s for some reason.

But when it boils down to it we don't get consoles for the console itself, we get them for the games and while each has some pretty good exclusives the number of games, especially used games, (go into any game store and there are several times more used 360 titles then there are for the PS3 and as Playstation fans used to claim during the fight between the original xbox and the PS2 it's the size and quality of the game catalog that counts for a console, not who made it.

Ultimately I'll stick with my PC for games but I'll definately be getting more use out of the 360 then I have the PS3 (well not counting for blurays and netflixs.)
 
Bigbacon said:
Unless there are games you just must play or you'll kill yourself, pass on the Wii....you'll use it for like a week and then never use it again.
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Our Wii still gets alot of use after almost 3 years. If mine died, I'd replace it (although I's likely buy a used one)
If you have young kids and are looking for "E" rated games, it's still a good choice.
Plus there are alot of older Game Cube games to choose from too.
 
Nintendo killed this system prematurely.
At least here in USA. NOA has done a horrible job bringing any kind of game out on the damn thing. Europe gets all the RPG's we've been waiting for and they are never released here. Makes no sense when they say they are now catering to the "hardcore" and then they ignore the games the "hardcore" are asking for.

They did it to themselves. Idiots.
 
Quite frankly I'm amazed that anyone is still wanting to buy a PS3/360/Wii in any great numbers.

Antiques the lot of them.

Please new consoles for 2012!
 
Hm, I owned a 360 for 4 years or so, buying at launch. I think I finished 3 or 4 games in that time. My PS3 is mostly a Netflix/Blu ray box. My Wii on the other hand, is all I usually console game on. I have yet to find many modern console games outside of the occasional RPG that I want to play and isn't on PC. Nintendo games I always love. This console war seems to be a bit long in the tooth, though.
 
The X360 is 6 years old, the PS3 and Wii 5 years. That's 2005 and 2006 for those keeping score. How many people still have a PC that old?

Nintendo has announced a new console which will totally crush the competition hardware-wise. Meanwhile neither Sony nor Microsoft have announced a new console meaning that the earliest we can expect updates there is late 2013, giving Nintendo a year-long free run with the most powerful console. If they can get the popular games on it as well (it can run any game engine, so why not?), it'll be a major success.

The Wii _is_ long in the tooth. It only does 480p output and its hardware is archaic (fixed GPU pipeline, which is basically pre-GeForce times, and very low clocks). A refresh is much needed there, and it'll be here next year. I am one of the people who wouldn't buy a Wii now and is instead waiting for the Wii U and the accompanying games.

I hope the Wii U does well. Maybe it'll get some competition soon then. I bet no one here wants to wait for the PS4 etc. until 2015 or later, right? Sony did promise that the PS3 would last, what, 10 years?
 
i cant even sell my wii on hardocp with wii fit, 10+ games, 4 controllers etc lol not sure how nintendo is selling their forgotten system at all. i loved the potential as did everyone who bought one its first year, then the games went south along with the archaic technology. nintendo keeps coming out with cool ideas which takes them two steps forward then outdated architecture which just makes them forgotten and to collect dust after a while.

it also erks me the japanese games i buy they updated the system to block them for "safety"... WTF is that. i paid for legit games but they want us to buy a 2nd system to play them. no way.
 
Lol, that does get annoying at times. The NTSC/PAL excuse doesn't even work anymore, so I dunno why companies even bother.
 
Only dumb collectors of nintendo crap like me would buy a wii now after the wii u announcement and me being dumb enough to buy another wii since it was fucking red and had fucking mario and yoshi on the box even though I bought one on day one that was white leving me with 2 fucking wiis.
 
I use the White WII I bought on launch day the RED wii has never been used and is still in the Box sitting next to the 25th aniverasy red mario DSI XL.

Oh and nintendo don't let me transfer my games like mega man 9 or 10 to the red wii legaly.

So No I do not use the other red wii I also have Gameboys that have never been used beyond the turning it on to make sure they was not a defective unit then I put them back in the box
 
Elledan said:
The X360 is 6 years old, the PS3 and Wii 5 years. That's 2005 and 2006 for those keeping score. How many people still have a PC that old?

Nintendo has announced a new console which will totally crush the competition hardware-wise. Meanwhile neither Sony nor Microsoft have announced a new console meaning that the earliest we can expect updates there is late 2013, giving Nintendo a year-long free run with the most powerful console. If they can get the popular games on it as well (it can run any game engine, so why not?), it'll be a major success.

The Wii _is_ long in the tooth. It only does 480p output and its hardware is archaic (fixed GPU pipeline, which is basically pre-GeForce times, and very low clocks). A refresh is much needed there, and it'll be here next year. I am one of the people who wouldn't buy a Wii now and is instead waiting for the Wii U and the accompanying games.

I hope the Wii U does well. Maybe it'll get some competition soon then. I bet no one here wants to wait for the PS4 etc. until 2015 or later, right? Sony did promise that the PS3 would last, what, 10 years?
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I'm sure it will end up like the last/current generation: One console gets a one-year head start, then is equaled/surpassed the following year.

The big difference is that Nintendo equals/surpasses in innovation, not raw technology. Although at this point, they have blown their wad. Everyone knows what the Wii-U will be doing, so MS and Sony have time to copy the innovation early.

The other problem is: How powerful do these systems need to be? What hardware improvements really need to be made when you have the nice fixed target of 1920x1080, 60 fps. It won't take another "revolutionary" leap forward from the PS3 and Xb360 to achieve absolutely silky-smooth playback on that, even in 3D, with even the most complex currently-conceivable-for-the-next-five-years games. I mean, how many PC games wouldn't run well on a PS3 at 1080 as it is?

The Wii-U will be "fast enough" for what it needs to do. Yeah, the original Wii should have at LEAST supported 720p, but it did plenty well for only being 480p. If the Wii-U only increases GPU power enough to just handle 1080p, isn't that, well, good enough?
 
Check out my sig. I'm playing current PC games on 720p with some lowered settings and I'd say it's just fine.
 
jroe52 said:
i cant even sell my wii on hardocp with wii fit, 10+ games, 4 controllers etc lol not sure how nintendo is selling their forgotten system at all. i loved the potential as did everyone who bought one its first year, then the games went south along with the archaic technology. nintendo keeps coming out with cool ideas which takes them two steps forward then outdated architecture which just makes them forgotten and to collect dust after a while.

it also erks me the japanese games i buy they updated the system to block them for "safety"... WTF is that. i paid for legit games but they want us to buy a 2nd system to play them. no way.
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That right there might be a good reason why Nintendo sales are really down as people have found a better console for workout purposes. I've seen some of the stuff on the Kinect, and you are actually working out versus pretending to be working out with the Nintendo Fit thingie. You have no idea how often I am behind someone in line to checkout at Costco with a Kinect + Xbox and a couple of workout games.
 
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