The final numbers are in, and in terms of unit sales, the Wii is the unquestioned winner of the holiday shopping battle, with estimates claiming that Nintendo’s console is outselling the PS3 at a rate of two to one.
“Nintendo seems to have stolen the high ground in terms of playability and entertainment value. Nintendo seems to be surfing this wave of public interest and this idea of accessibility that they started with Nintendogs and these brain games,” said Forrester Research analyst Paul Jackson.
Although Sony had critical problems in production of the console, lackluster reviews and the obtrusively high price also impeded holiday sales. As the Wii continued to gain buzz over the PS3, online discussions of where to find Sony’s console became overshadowed by parents desperately trying to discover where to buy a Wii for Christmas, in addition to gamers looking to get one for themselves.
And this isn’t solely a supply issue, as even people who were able to buy a PS3 are trading them at a loss to get a Wii!
When the Sony PlayStation 3 console launched it was met with lines of people which camped outside of stores for days and days to get their hands on one of Sony’s next-generation behemoth consoles. It seems like the tide has turned because many people out there actually want to give away their PlayStation 3 for a Wii.
This isn’t just a few people but a lot of PlayStation 3 owners who are trying to get rid of their PS3 for a console that is less than half the price since the PS3 is $600 and the Wii is $250.
Now not only are there fewer PlayStation 3 consoles on the market but now even PS3 owners are jumping ship and leaving Sony for a Nintendo Wii.
The ignorant PS3 fanbois sure seem to have been quieted lately…the ps3 will trudge on, much like the mac, but it will be deemed largely irrelevant by the mass of people.
Why someone would buy a ps3 with its lack of games when one can buy a 360 and a Wii for essentially the same price is beyond me.
Great job, nintendo, for putting out a fun and affordable gaming system, something sony completely missed the boat on.
More of the long, slow decline that is Sony’s world. This company is going nowhere, folks.
12,
You know when the end is here when clowns like you show up and start defending your favourite corporation. Really, does anyone care? People buy what they like, or what they want. Sometimes they buy what they need. But hey, if you need to dissect comments to correct the injustices to Sony, be my guest. But that doesn’t make you or your comments any more prescient. In fact, by trying to be helpful on such vital matters, you really show you’re more meaningless than my playful tete a tete with gquaglia… which I try to engage in more often.
Anyhoo… enjoy your fanboism… You might grow up one day and it will just be a pleasant memory.
the PS3 certainly didn’t sell out. Sony can say it sold out because they sold all their units to stores.. that’s not quite the same thing.
Anyhow – I honestly don’t know anyone that wants one, and also any games that look that good. All the good ones are on both the xbox 360 and ps3, and the graphics on the PS3 aren’t enough better than the 360 for anyone to care.
The Wii is different. It’s not only a broader appeal, it’s also a second console – I’d buy one AND a 360 if I could.
#23 hey, go easy on #12, he sounds like having stocks on sony. Maybe he also owns some mac stock too!
Also posted this one with wii`s opera, you should try watching youtube with this thing
There are 15 PS3s in the paper this morning. I suspect a lot of the people whom bought them thaught they could make a killing reselling them. There were no wii’s for sale.
#20, PS3′s and XBox’s are made for dead-ender, single, childless 30 year-olds living with their parents — who have a lot of disposable income and heaps of spare time by not having real lives. Sony and Microsoft love to milk them for all it is worth and produce games that no mainstream, productive, middle-class person would ever have time to finish.
Nintendos are made for normal people with families. The games are often casual, easy to learn and replayable.
Nintendo rocks!
#18 – No disagreement from me on that one: Wireless content distribution is the way forward… these next generation DVD formats are more of a stop-gap than a true, long term solution.
Hell, at this point, the worst case scenario is ripping an HD-DVD or BluRay disk to a hard drive… if online distribution can’t improve in quality over the next couple of years.
#21 – Very unintelligent. First, the PS3 fanboys have been quiet for over a year… when it became clear in the gaming community that the PS3 wasn’t going to be dominant from day one. Second, the Mac is hardly ‘trudging’ along: It is gaining market share, and continues to be the ‘hot’ brand from a marketing perspective. The PS3 has not captured this momentum the way the PS2 did and the Mac has.