The console sales at their six month birthday

***wraggster*** · May 20th, 2007, 22:45

via joystiq

Six months since the release of both the PS3 and Wii, Infendo put together a comparison chart based on the latest NPD data of where the most recent consoles ranked during the same time. The Wii is ahead of where the PS2 was at the six month mark, and both the Xbox 360 and PS3 rank behind the Gamecube (and we all remember how that ended). The first six month sales of the consoles rank in digits for North America as:

Wii (2,470,000)
PS2 (2,200,000)
Xbox (1,900,000)
GameCube (1,540,000)
Xbox 360 (1,384,000)
PS3 (1,271,000)
Infendo's Blake Snow says, "[This] means fans of motion-controls can expect to see a boatload of good games with fewer titles gracing 'real next-gen' platforms. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!"

If only the first six months showed the end game. Look at how small the difference between the Xbox and PS2 is in this chart after the first six months, and we know how that one ends too. The PS2 is still selling well while the Xbox has passed on. Although, it's getting hard to ignore the massive growth of the Wii as it gets older (insert typical quip about how it would be nice to have some more original Wii games here). With Iwata already expecting the Wii to hit 14 million units by next March, how big can the Wii get?

**ICE** · May 20th, 2007, 22:47

hahaha gamecube<360, ps3

**Basil Zero** · May 20th, 2007, 22:55

Wahahahaha!!

And people said that GCN was a failure....lol

**Joe88** · May 21st, 2007, 01:44

not bad ps2

**JKKDARK** · May 21st, 2007, 02:05

Where's the Dreamcast?

**Jonesyxxiv** · May 21st, 2007, 02:43

Thats pretty interesting

**Abgoj** · May 21st, 2007, 03:12

lol, that's funny. I wonder how many units the xbox 360 and PS3 will have sold by the end of this gen war. it'll be pretty tough for wii to beat PS2 sales figures even though it sold more units than the PS2 in the first six months, but we'll see.

**sappo** · May 21st, 2007, 14:53

I think that Wii will crush PS2 sales in the end, if they will continue releasing good games, people will continue to buy Wii.

Wii will rock you, Sony!

**Shrygue** · May 21st, 2007, 19:27

It looks like the gap between the Wii and the PS2 aren't so far apart, only by 27,000. Still not too surprising that the Will console would top this list, it is so highly sought after.