Financial Times confirms Wii as global leader
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 at 6:16pm by Jake
A report from the Financial Times is confirming Wii domination of world-wide sales. This news comes weeks after VGchartz first reported the Wii surpassing the Xbox360 globally. Financial Times seems to have more connections with world retailers which gives us a clearer, and more trusting statement. The Tokyo based site lists the actual units sold with the Wii at 9 million, Xbox360 at 8.9 million, and the PS3 at 3.7 million. A Tokyo annalist clearly states the reasons…
“The fact of the matter is that, despite the Xbox’s earlier launch in November 2005, it only sells in two markets – Europe and the US. Japan is home turf to Sony and Nintendo, so the Xbox is not a player at all. In contrast, Nintendo has been selling well in all three major markets.”
The question is when will Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft give us a clear-cut statement of their global sales? Only time will tell.
September 12th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Opossum Sauce.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Thats awesome! finnally nintendo’s in the lead, i hope it stays that way
September 13th, 2007 at 1:08 am
Been a while…..but it was bound to happen;)
Off topic, does anyone know anything about the Friend Voucher things in Metroid Prime 3? There’s nothing on them in the instruction manual, and the game doesn’t really explain……
September 13th, 2007 at 1:43 am
financial times numbers actually do not have more solid retailers numbers that we havent known about. i always said pay attention to neogaf, not vgchartz, because the numbers that financial times uses is NPD (NA Market) and Enterbrain (JP Market, also publishes Famitsu) to get those totals.
those 2 companies actually do contact most retailers and NPD even does online retailers as of July. vgchartz does guessing until it gets official numbers then revises its numbers.
neogaf actually follows official numbers for all 3 territories. EU is nearly impossible to get HW numbers for, apparently even for the Financial Times, because while we know from occasional HW number releases across EU, which are shown on Neogaf when they come up, this Financial Times report does not include EU.
that is why the numbers there are below 10mil.
Media Create is actually the largest number gatherer in Japan so i dont know why they didnt use them.
September 13th, 2007 at 7:47 am
While it is good to see Nintendo in # 1 with the Wii, the DS is out selling EVERYTHING, including the Wii.
Also, the big N was always making profits, even when they were in ” last place” they still made MORE MONEY than the others console makers games divisions.
September 14th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Hallelujah!!
Great news indeed but I’m not surprised!