Nintendo Moves Ahead of Microsoft By 2 Million Units
Nov. 17
Here, have some more delicious sales data to think about before we end our blogcast day. GameDaily has crunched recently-released NPD data and turned it into the handy-dandy graphic above, which seems to prove that Nintendo is unquestionably winning the console wars. The Wii moved ahead of the 360 in June and since has left the Xbox in the dust, sales-wise, despite Microsoft price cuts.
But is Nintendo really winning? Checking out the graph below suggests the situation is more complex than you might think. While Nintendo is leading bigtime on hardware sales, people who own Microsoft's Xbox 360 are buying tons more games per system - 94 million units total for Microsoft to Nintendo's 73 million. If you think over all the angles, then right now, I think you can only consider the console wars a dead Nintendo/Microsoft heat. There won't be a clear "winner" until more people per console are buying Wii games, or more people are buying 360s.
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