Switch vs Wii Sales Comparison - November 2021 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 January 2022 / 7,963 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 Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo Wii.
The Wii launched in November 2006, while the Nintendo Switch launched in March 2017. Therefore, the holiday periods for the two consoles do not lineup, which is why there are big increases and decreases.
Switch Vs. Wii Global:
Gap change in latest month: 2,690,364 - Switch
Gap change over last 12 months: 10,944,883 - Switch
Total Lead: 10,100,453 - Switch
Switch Total Sales: 96,925,862
Wii Total Sales: 86,825,409
November 2021 is the 57th month that the Nintendo Switch has been available for. During the latest month, the Switch grew its lead by 2.69 million units when compared to the launch aligned sales of the Wii. In the last 12 months, the Switch has outsold the Wii by 10.94 million units. The Switch is currently ahead of the Wii by 10.10 million units.
The 57th month for the Nintendo Switch is November 2021 and for the Wii it is July 2011. The Switch has sold 96.93 million units, while the Wii sold 86.83 million units during the same timeframe. The Wii reached current Switch sales in month 73 where it sold 97.28 million units.
The Wii sold 101.63 million units worldwide during its lifetime. The Switch needs to sell another 4.70 million units to outsell the Wii.
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I think it may have a chance to oustell the Wii
You don't think the cliff makes this exceedingly unlikely? Maybe I'm just being overly cautious, but I'd rather not get my hopes up.
Nah man. I have it on good authority that the cliff is coming.
I would like to think Switch will outsell Wii but I heard rumos about this damn cliff that is about to happen
100% this!
Well earned for Nintendo. And as an aside, I think the Switch is a vastly better engineered console than the Wii ever was. Combining handheld and traditional console form factors was a stroke of genius
The cliff is gonna come any minute now.
Switch achieving in 57 months what the Wii took 73 is quite amazing.
At this point it seems pretty unreal that the gap was 11M in favor of Wii in 2019...
Never gonna happen. Switch is a failure. Mark my words, the future holds nothing but disappointment and Nintendooooooooom.
Nintendoooooom is written in the stars.
And to think the Switch will produce a number of high performing years still, and likely challenge the PS2/DS dominance. Love the console even though it´s miserable from a hardware pespective (as has been the case since the Wii release), but there is no mistaking that the games are extraordinary.
Steam Deck is coming and Nintendo is aways doomed.
Wii peaked early. Its broader peak was from launch until early to mid 2010.
Switch's peak year seems to be 2020. 2021 is pretty close. Switch's broader peak will likely end up being 2020 until late 2022/early 2023.
Somehow Nintendo got consumers all in from the start with the Wii and squandered a lot of their sucess midlife because the Wii was largely a fad.
Switch has a broader appeal than the Wii did. Switch is all but guaranteed to finish 3rd place for hardware totals. DS or PS2 is even possible, but not as likely.
The cliff effect may come, but not soon, remember that times have changed, and the 4 year lifespan of a console that we saw in past generations have spand 6 years.
