Switch vs Wii – VGChartz Gap Charts – February 2018 Update - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 April 2018 / 6,205 Views
The VGChartz Gap charts are updated monthly and each article focuses on a different gap chart. The charts include comparisons between the 7th generation and 8th generation platforms, as well as comparisons within the 8th generation. All sales are worldwide, unless otherwise stated.
Switch Vs. Wii Global:
Gap change in latest month: 163,341 – Switch
Total Lead: 1,854,036 - Switch
Switch Total Sales: 15,333,722
Wii Total Sales: 13,479,686
February 2018 is the 12th month that the Nintendo Switch has been available for. During the latest month the Wii has closed the gap with the Switch slightly. The Wii outsold the Switch by 163,341 units. The Switch is currently ahead of the Wii by 1.85 million units.
The Wii launched in November 2006, while the Nintendo Switch launched in March 2017. The Switch has sold 15.33 million units, while the Wii sold 13.48 million units during the same timeframe.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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When's Wii lite?
Supply confined the Wii at this point until 2009. In Europe at least, it seemed they didn’t last on sale anywhere at retail until Spring 09.
Oh yeah, Switch got this. Just wait till E3 :)
I just don't get it so someone can explain me the method here :
Nintendo announces 14,86M at December 31th 2017. Here 2 months later we are at 15,33. But approximately 1M/month was counted for January and February. Why we don't see a number more around 16,8M for the first 12 months of the Switch ?
It was 14,86m shipped. This is sold through.
I believe this is because vgchartz does not provide 100% accurate information since that would probably be impossible. I saw the 14.86 M number too at that time and I think that came directly from Nintendo while according to vgchartz it had only sold around 13 M at that time. I think vgchartz has been slightly undertracking the switch's sales so it probably has sold more than 15.33 at this time. That's what I think it is at least I could be wrong.
I don't believe that there was 2 millions of Switch waiting in stores. This doesn't make sens : at the begining of the year we had still some supply issues reported, at least in Japan. I rather think that VGC can't be 100% accurate and adjusts some months later every values, so they prefer to count it less than more and add the few missing later. They also certainly can't get the other world regions data (out of US/JP/FR/UK/GE) which represents 8-10% of the sales.
I had never seen before, a so huge amount of son of bitch in a forum. VGCHARTZ is unique for that. When I see the number of red thumbs that I get for no reason. But I had noticed already that everytime someone here try to write something a bit detailed with arguments, he get hit by red thumbs. Meanwhile, everytime someone put a short, pretencious simplist and even sometimes impolite comment, he get full support with many green thumbs.
Are you guys sure? 13.48 mil would suggest data from 27/10/2007. That's 11 months (and 8 days) worth of sales not 12.
Wii was only good for Wii Sports. Will had some great games like Galaxy 1&2 and Skyword Swors but they would have been better on Xbox 360 or PS3.
