April NPD or Everyone Drinks except Nintendo
 

Nintendo Wii 714,200
Nintendo DS 414,800
PlayStation Portable 192,700
Xbox 360 188,000
PLAYSTATION 3 187,100
PlayStation 2 124,400


1 Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360) 1,850,000
2 Mario Kart (Wii) 1,120,000
3 Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) 1,000,000
4 Wii Play (Wii) 360,000
5 Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii) 326,000
6 Gran Turismo 5: Prologue (PS3) 224,000
7 Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness (DS) 202,000
8 Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time (DS) 202,000
9 Guitar Hero III (Wii) 152,000
10 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) 141,000

Basically Wii almost doubles Ps3/360 combined with the largest game of the last generation coming out. GTA tears up the chart as expected but Kart doesn't do too shabby.

Nintendo also seems to be moving along with the numbers as they have 4 Wii games and 2 DS games in the top 10. Accounting for more than half of the Top 10.

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Wow, just wow. Mario Kart outsold GTA IV on the PS3

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Wow, very nice.

I don't mean to talk shit, but it's good to see that the PS2 is beginning to move on.

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Double post to put things in perspective:

Wii: 714k

All others (minus DS) combined:
692K

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Nintendo continues ascension to heaven while third parties flounder.

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Well to be fair. Most 3rd party efforts haven't been the greatest.

GH 3 continues to sell well. No More Heroes sold respectable all things considered. Red Steel got the launch bump. But really not many Wii 3rd parties that deserved to sell.

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I wonder how game sales now overall compare to the last 5 years. I wouldn't be shocked if this is damn near an overall industry best.. but not sure. lol

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It has to be, I can't think of another time where gaming has been this big. The only thing comparable to the Wii's success is the PS2 which without a doubt was big, but now, the Wii is a monster. I personally don't understand the direction of gaming these days with the Wii's continued success.. er, domination, but they've got it right apparently, so more power to them. Gaming is bigger than ever.

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That is F-ing hilarious.

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Well, apparently nobody is buying any games to go along with their new Wii's or Wii titles would be dominating the top ten.

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Wii has the lowest game-to-console sales ratio of the three...
It has arguably the worst third-party support of any Nintendo console to date...
Critically speaking, it has by far the fewest games with an 80% or higher total ranking (according to gameranking) between the three consoles...
It's third-party support looks to stay pretty poor for the foreseeable future...
And it's first-party titles look to be heading into a dry spell after Nintendo got a bit top-heavy with their franchises for the first year and a half...

As for that GTA-influenced comparison chart... The game itself broke sales records worldwide, including one for total revenue brought in by ANY form of Entertainment Media ever...
It sold nearly as many copies in it's first week as Wii's top-selling, non-bundled game (Mario Galaxy) has since it's release...
And the game's two versions (currently) occupy in the two top spots on gameranking's all-time highest reviewed game chart...

I mean, outside of raw console sales, I just don't see the significance of the Wii when this new user base that's causing a large chunk of sales seems less interested in, you know... purchasing games...

I'm more interested in how things will play out over the long haul... And not just as they relate to consoles sold...

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I have a Wii. I like it. It has good games. Not enough?

Pushing sales is funny. Stockholder?

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I had a Wii! It had some good games! I liked it! Then I got bored! Then I sold it!

Point being: Sales can be a fun thing to follow and discuss... Opinions, predictions, and the ultimate outcome that weighs heavily on the direction of the gaming industry...

If the original Playstation hadn't sold the way it did, would the gaming industry be the same as it is today?

If Wii came out and absolutely nobody cared, would there be speculation that Microsoft is going to be ripping off their controller? Would anybody even want to rip off their controller? Would Nintendo use similar technology, and take a similar approach, to their next console?

*ponders*

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Yeah, even though Wii is at the top of the sales charts, in my opinion its clearly the worst console. I really don't compare it head up with 360 and Ps3 . I feel like Wii is its own thing for casual gamers. Like GBA, or PSP. Just a nice system with a nice gimmick that sold well. Most of what I liked about the home gaming console industy for the last 10+ years isn't represented very well on the Wii.

That change is why its as sucsessful as it is. So grats to nintendo for that one, but I personally wouldn't call it the best console with the best games by a long shot. Nintendo's making their money, but they're not making it by having the best quality in my opinion. Is this good or bad for the industry? We'll see. lol

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By the way, I find my sigature funny now. I remember how ignorant he sounded when he said that years ago, then Wii comes out and just proves his point. It still goes against what I'm personally interested in, and more hardcore gamers. But the casual gamers are probably what drove him to say it.

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Thw Wii's attachment rate compared to its console sales are so disparate, I'm tempted to remove the Wii from the console wars entirely, as its not really the same animal. There are a coupkle of things that don;t bode well for the Wii and the the idea that motion control is the future.

1) The afforementioned attachement rate is not bad, its terrible. people are literally buying the console for for Nintendo franises and Wii sports alone. That's not really an open platform console... it more like a really popular NeoGeo.

2) The "it" factor could be its undoing. As was mentioned before, people grow tirted of it pretty quickly in many cases (not all or even the majority). I thinka good part of its appeal is that its "fashionable", not unlike I think a lot of the appeal of Mac is fashionable. I'd be curious to see any numbers on Wii resales...

3) The most damning evidence is the continued lack of serious third party support. Nintendo has got to feel like the US army did when the conquered Iraq... "Hey everyone, we won! Don't you love us now? What? Wait! Where are you going?" The Wii needs to win the hearts and minds of serious third party developers, and so far they've been resoundingly ignored.

And for the record, I have no rooting interest against the Wii (I'm planning on getting one as my next console in fact), I'm just trying to be as objective as possible, and I welcome any differing arguments and evidence.