Wii Becomes Sixth Video Game System to Top 80m Units Worldwide - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 16 December 2010 / 15,460 Views
As of the week ending December 11, 2010 Nintendo has sold over 80m Wiis worldwide. Over the history of video games, only five other systems have topped 80 million units lifetime. Nintendo has sold over 140m DS systems (see coming article!), and shipped over 118m Game Boys, and about 81m Game Boy Advance systems. Sony has shipped over 147m PS2 systems and over 102m PS1s. The next system to join the 80 million club could be PSP, but with shipment totals for PSP only now approaching 70m, as 3DS and PSP2 approach, that figure is not assured. PS3 and X360, if they were ever to reach 80m - and this is also somewhat doubtful in both cases - would need at least two more years to reach the figure.
Wii has reached 80 million units worldwide pretty quickly. Figures below are time in each market needed to pass 80m units worldwide for each system.
Americas / Wks EMEAA / Wks Japan / Wks Total
Wii 38.11m / 211 31.41m / 209 11.01m / 210 80.53m
PS2 31.32m / 221 30.66m / 217 18.06m / 255 80.04m
DS 26.25m / 201 30.13m / 186 23.63m / 200 80.01m
Wii is the fastest selling video game system in the history of the USA and by extension, the Americas market. However, it is a bit slower than the DS pace in EMEAA, and at a far slower pace than DS was in Japan. If both launched worldwide in the same week Wii would have topped 80m in week 209, while DS probably would have topped 80m in week 195 or so. In the Americas, PS2 is about a year behind Wii (closer to two years in the USA, less in Canada and Latin America), slightly behind in EMEAA (particularly in Europe) and almost exactly between the DS and Wii Japanese pace, if you divide sales by weeks. If PS2 launched worldwide in the same week, the system likely would have topped 80m in about 225 weeks and so Wii is between the DS and PS2 paces lifetime to date.
Going forward, Wii should top 100m units relatively quickly. Sales for Wii on a yearly basis are still very strong, particularly for a system as old as it is. By the end of 2010 Wii will be ahead of Game Boy Advance, and nearing the PS1. If Nintendo meets its fiscal year projection, Wii shipments will be over 88m by March 2011 which means Wii shipments will top 100m sometime toward the end of the March 2012 fiscal year, as Wii has only declined about 15-20% per year since its peak. With price drops and at least some ongoing support from publishers like Ubisoft who continue to do banner business on the system, Wii should rise to figures above 110m sometime during late 2012, almost from momentum alone. Where it goes from there depends on the next round of machines, pricing, and third party support. Once Wii gets above 102.5m units, it will only trail DS, PS2, and GB amongst all video game systems released to date. While the DS lifetime figure is going to be unassailable at 175m or more, the GB figure should easily be passed, and there is still a slim (less than 5%) possiblility Wii catches PS2 before all is said and done given its super pace in the USA market has kept Wii ahead of PS2 worldwide through 80m units.
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100 M 2011!!!!
This is unsuprising. As videogames and gaming in general become more widely accepted, the lighter the game, the more appealing it becomes. Nintendo have always been inovators, and always will. This time around they have tapped into and reached their full potential. Nintendo has always been about one core element; fun. Mario is the most successful videogame mascot not because he is super cool and hot, but because he represents some idea of fun and escapism. I am thrilled with Nintendo's success, and will always be a 'fanboy', however dirty the word. I will never discount another manufacturers success, but without Nintendo, the rival wars that exist today wouldn't even be possible.
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@dunno001 - that is a good point, although I would presume that much of the reason for Sony being stronger in these markets is that they produced cheap consoles that became the market leader. The last time that described a Nintendo offering was too long ago for a fair comparison, the others market has grown phenomenolly since then.
@wiifan75 Going by everything that Nintendo has been hinting at with their statements about the Wii's successor, we can safely assume that the next Nintendo console releases in 2013, likely in November. That gives the Wii almost another three years before they replace it.
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I don't see Wii outselling PS2 at all. Ninty will put out a new console soon I think and I really doubt they are going to continue to push 2 consoles like sony does. I think sony just pushes PS2 hardware to help the losses for the ps3 during it's start. Wonder what the margins are on the PS2 currently.
Comparing consoles with hanhelds makes a lot of sense to me, i spent two generations (GBC,GBA) not buying consoles because portables were incredibly awesome and more widespread (its always easier to find someone who plays Pokemon or stuff like that)
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@ Nintari
This is the title.
"Wii Becomes Sixth Video Game System to Top 80m Units Worldwide"
Please tell me where it says Home Console in there.
No really, do it.
Speaking of, I hear Yamaha is doing better than Toyota at the moment, any thoughts?
Sarcasm aside, I don't see any reason not to compare sales of portable and home consoles, sales are sales and for something like this, it's perfectly reasonable to slip them in since it's more data to compare. You might not like it, but it's facts and figures that are relevant.
Handhelds are a different market then home consoles. Thus, comparing them is totally FUCKING RETARDED.
It's like comparing motorcycle sales against automobile sales.
Go Nintendo
Nintari: Handhelds are indeed gaming consoles. They are just HANDHELD consoles. Their primary purpose is to play games, so they are consoles.
Nintendomination!!!
This is good!
But...I thought VG stood for "video games"?
Well, I thought Iwata was being very optimistic when he said he hoped Wii would double to triple GC's lifetime sales within 5 years... To have hit the 80m milestone so soon is very impressive. At this point I can't see it catching PS2-like others have said, Sony's strength in the latter years of the PS2's life lay in their distribution to emerging markets, as well as the immense third party support the system enjoyed from day one. However, I can see the Wii overtaking the PS1 within the next 18 months, and coming quite close the original GB. I can't see it overtaking the GB unless Nintendo manage to keep sales momentum beyond 2012 (which is when I believe they will release their next home console).
Well done to the little white box and Nintendo, though. For all its flaws Wii is a great system I've had much enjoyment out of.
The december sales of the Wii are amazing. Just in the good old years Wii bigger than PS3+Xbox360 combined
Ostro - VG stands for VisiGoth, the western Goths. The Goths entered Teutonic Germany out of Sweden during the 2nd century AD, displacing the traditional Germanic tribes of the region, causing them to invade the Roman Empire (as though the Romans were less scary than these invaders from the North). In turn the Visigoths (the Western Goths were pushed from Germany by the Huns; only they made a pact with the Romans to live in their lands. After being treated poorly by the racist Romans, the Visigoths revolted and crushed the Eastern Roman army and slew their Emperor at the battle of Adrianople, and then a few decades later they declared war on the Western Roman Empire, and sacked Rome in 410, catalyzing the collapse of the western empire not long after due to the catastrophic economic decline. As a result, the Empire was reunited under one Emperor and one capital, lasting nearly 800 years until the 13th century when the Empire split once again.
I could be wrong, but that is all I can think of VG standing for. It is also curious as to what the attachment of this website is to a proto-Viking Empire crushing tribe.
Ah, vgchartz means "home consoles charts" then - I always wondered what the VG stands for... oh my xD
@Auhim, every market leader has been a competitor in the next generation. The NES was competing with the SNES and Genesis, the SNES was competing with the N64 and PS1, the PS1 stuck around to rock the Xbox and GameCube, the PS2 is still alive, and even after the DS came out, the GBA was still outselling the PS3 for a long time.
In Japan they were manufacturing and selling brand new Famicoms for over 20 years. The Wii will last as long as it wants to, especially when it gets down to $99 and all the big huge 15 million-selling games are readily available for less than $20. Even if it doesn't outsell the PS2, it's gonna be around a long time.
if handhelds arent console well i guess they dont have games then
Can we PLEASE stop using handhelds in sales data? They aren't fucking consoles, they're handhelds. When I looked at the headline I was like"WTF? There were that many 80 mill consoles?!?!" Then when I clicked on the link and read a few lines I was like...goddamn it.
So, for the last time people...HANDHELDS ARE NOT HOME CONSOLES. Stop mixing them together. They are different markets, with different demographic sales and can NOT be compared.
scottie: If I were to guess the reason to the 5% prediction, it would have to do with Sony's strength in emerging markets. Nintendo is fairly weak in most of these, whereas Sony has more marketing in these growing areas. Thus, my thought is that he may see the Wii falling off harder in later years, as the penetration to these areas just won't be the same.
To others in the thread, I've sent out mod warnings to the trolls. Please don't feed them.
Hey Cody please let me know when you throw away an HD TV, I want one in my room
I'd guess the argument for the Wii having a slim chance of surpassing the PS2 despite its current position ahead of a launch-aligned PS2 comes down to expected support from Nintendo in the future and perceived longevity of the hardware. The PS2's numbers are largely due to sustained sales during the following generation. The Xbox 360 released about 5 years after the PS2 and didn't really eat much into the PS2's sales. 6 years after its release, the PS3 and Wii came in and you finally had some hardware that could consistently outsell the PS2. Even then, after initial launch rushes went through, the PS2 sold in relatively large quantities against the then-expensive Xbox 360 and PS3 and the Wii.
The PS2 was at the time just one "generation" of hardware behind, supported heavily by Sony because they needed it to sell well to keep them afloat until the PS3 picked up steam, and coming off a generation it absolutely dominated.
The Wii, however, will be two "generations" behind in hardware whenever the next hardware comes out, has two actual competitors in the market which continue to slowly erode its market share (even though few doubt it will come close to falling behind either of them), and is made by a company which hasn't in recent years generally supported its hardware as long after release of the successors as Sony did the PS1 and PS2.
A thought: Would an absolutely stellar launch for the Wii's successor actually hurt the Wii's lifetime numbers? (If the PS3 sold much faster at launch, would Sony have supported the PS2 less and therefore had lesser sustained sales for the older hardware?)
cody6695
i dont think no one gives a rats ass if you through away your wii here, if you wanna talk about that cliche thats where IGN or Xplay is for
Amazing... Wii outsell XBox360 and PS3 again... :)
5%? I know it will
Ahh the attach ratio argument, shutting people up since 2006 :P
Anyway, I'm curious why, being as the Wii is 16 weeks ahead of the PS2 currently, you rate the chance of the Wii selling more that the PS2 as a mere 5%. Depending on price and next gen offerings obviously, I could see the Wii continuing to sell well even just with its current lineup of titles that are still selling (ie Wii Sports/Fit/MK/NSMB etc)
Are the Wii's sales declining faster YoY than the Ps2's? Or is that without selling well in Japan the Wii will hit the 'everyone already owns one' cap before it overtakes the PS2?
When will wii have a price cut Jacob? aroudn the time the 3DS is launched? maybe a $50 price cut during April.
Cody the problem with millions throwing away Wii is that means those of us who haven't purchase far more games for it than any other system in the history of video games. So Wii is either selling over 8 games per person to over 80 million people or Wii is selling something like 16 games to 40 million people going by your argument. Which do you prefer - Wii is the fastest selling hardware for a console or Wii is the hardware that sells the most games? Your call!
Congrats Nintendo, now give me a release date for Skyward Sword.
Cody's argument is about 2 years out of date.
I bet that MS and Sony would die to had their consoles as doomed as the Wii :P Can't wait to see what pachula and the NPD morons would say to ignore this fact.
Ah the haters! Just got to love them :)
Cody I sense you are buthurt that Wii is doing amazing, and you threw away your wii before buying all the hot titles that came this year? Can't believe some people.
That's not what I said, now stop trolling.
Sorry for not expecting trolls then. Hahahaha
And while you're at it, don't be a smart ass about it.
Well cody if you expect to be flamed then don't post or troll.
Well, you all care enough to take your time to reply to my childish opinion....
So if you don't care simply ignore it.
Cody no one cares.
Judging by your age, I'm not surprised.
Yadda yadda yadda Cody.
Millions of us enjoy Donkey Kong, Epic Mickey, GoldenEye, Mario Galaxy etc.
We could all say the same about people with 360s and PS3s, but we don't because it is boring and childish. I sold my PS2 and replaced it with a Wii. What does that mean? Hmm... nothing.
Well done Nintendo.
Cody, thanks for your opinion. No one cares.
Facts are facts.
I threw away my wii.
And everyone I know with a wii after about a year all sold it and bought a 360. And out of those 80m wii's sold I bet a huge chunk of those people do not play it anymore/ quickly grew tired of the controls and games.
My brother got a Wii just for the sake of Mario. So...
Urra!! Go and buy more Wii's!!
Wii need to cross 100M more soon than expect!!
@ TheSource, End of year Wii will beat GBA? it will do that with week ending 18th December numbers when it will most likely top 81.50M which pretty much what the GBA did.
If the Wii is doom, then i'm a monkey playing with a video game console with no good games, no fair prices, and constant changes. cough cough... PS3 cough
I know one day the Wii will top this. It is the best home video console by the way. P.S. First Comment.
