PS5 vs Wii Sales Comparison - September 2021 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 November 2021 / 3,990 Views
The VGChartz sales comparison series of articles are updated monthly and each one focuses on a different sales comparison using our estimated video game hardware figures. The charts include comparisons between the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch, as well as with older platforms. There are articles based on our worldwide estimates, as well as the US, Europe, and Japan.
This monthly series compares the aligned worldwide sales of the PlayStation 5 and Wii.
The PlayStation 5 launched in November 2020, while the Nintendo Wii launched in November 2006. This does mean the holiday periods for the two consoles do lineup.
PS5 Vs. Wii Worldwide:
Gap change in latest month: 171,873 – PS5
Total Lead: 337,021 – PS5
PlayStation 5 Total Sales: 12,763,653
Wii Total Sales: 12,426,632
September 2021 is the 11th month the PlayStation 5 has been available for. In the latest month, the gap grew in favor of the PlayStation 5 when compared to the aligned launch of the Nintendo Wii by 171,873 units. The PlayStation 5 is now ahead of the Nintendo Wii by 337,021 units.
The PlayStation 5 has sold 12.76 million units in 11 months, while the Nintendo Wii sold 12.43 million units. Month 11 for the PlayStation 5 is September 2021 and for the Nintendo Wii it is September 2007.
The Nintendo Wii crossed 20 million in month 15, 30 million in month 21, and 40 million in month 26. The Nintendo Wii sold 101.63 million units lifetime.
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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I think it would be interesting to see a PS5 vs DS chart too
PS5 will pull ahead permanently month 67, mark my words!
Wii didnt have sculpers cleaning out store shelves so that is a massive boost for PS5
Not necessary. Due to limited qualities and the copper shortage, these sculpers are buying and selling them long term and slowly. Plenty of sculpers still have full warehouses so the stock hasnt actually sold, it just moved warehouse but still counts as a sale.
Actually no i don't think they would have sold out that fast at launch. Let me explain why. Sculpers are still trying to sell their current stock and we can assume its more than a small portion. 1 guy in England has brought 36,000 PS5s.. just 1 guy, you can imagine what the other sculpers would have sculped, we are probably talking about in the millions now.
Do you remember when the PS5 and Series X opened up the Preorders for the very first time and shortly after everyone was complaining that they couldn't buy these systems at launch.. that's because of the Automated Bots which can process orders quicker than a human, cleaning out the stock as fast as possible, unless you were extremely lucky. The sculping situation got so bad that retailers had to actually close the preorders for these systems to avoid them getting snag by bots.
Now look at the libraries these consoles launched with, not exactly much to play for an expensive console, heck even the Series X even sold out and it was relying on last gen content for its entire launch. The Steam Deck has sold out and the system isn't even out yet. That's all thanks to sculpers.
The point i am trying to make out of all this is if you add up all these issues and combine them. You will see why these systems flew off the shelves. Their are articles on the PS5 saying its software is struggling to sell due to Scuplers, and that's due to many customers not having the systems, because Sculpers don't buy the software. You cannot sell software when you have consoles sitting in sheds.
All of this is is nonsense and the data says otherwise, especially with the scalpers thing.
Still impressive that Wii held the pace with sales.
PS5 storms all over the data. Both great consoles.
It seems to me that ps5 has dropped 200k somehow, was there an adjustment?
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