How soon will sales of Nintendos Wii pass the Xbox 360s?
Within a few months, and certainly before Christmas, judging by two separate sources which have been keeping tabs on sales (as opposed to distribution) of the latest generation of consoles since the Xbox 360 came on the scene around Christmas 2005. So far, according to nexgenwars.com, the Xbox 360 has sold around 11m units, while the Wii has sold 7.7m and the Sony PlayStation 3 (launched at about the same time as the Wii) just 3.3m. The site is running its own real-time estimates of sales: as you watch, the site updates, and with the figure for the Wii ticking over at roughly twice the speed of that for the Xbox, a takeover is obviously close at hand. A separate tab is being kept at VGChartz.com, which has a different set of numbers – 10m for the Xbox 360, 8.17m for the Wii and 3.42m for the PS3. But the variations in figures are within the sorts of tolerance limits that makes it clear that while the Xbox 360 is performing modestly, the Wii is still flying off the shelves while the PS3
