Wii tops PS3 and Xbox360 in sales for January

[Andy]

I dub Shin JohnPV the new GAF -> TNL copy & paste chimp. Andy has been demoted.

I'd like to think I've moved past that title. I relinquish the crown to you, PV. Wear it proudly.

[Rumpy]

I was in Gamestop a few days ago and I saw a lot of (young) girls in the store. They were all in the Wii section.

Nintendo has successfully made a box for boxes.

[Gooch]

Though they won't be getting a dollar out of me (cause bitch I'm a P-I-M-P), I have to commend Nintendo on succesfully pushing units onto non-gamers. Nintendo has tapped into that previously untapped market. Most of the people I know who own a Wii only own one other system: a DS.

[MarkRyan]

Today I saw Wii in stock at Target. First time I've seen a Wii in a store since I got my system at launch. There were three systems when I walked into the Target with some coworkers. There were zero when we left (we bought them all). Asked the clerk and she said they were put out this morning. There were PS3s as well--we didn't buy those.

If those other platform numbers are correct, I'm very surprised by the DS Lite numbers. The system has been sold out almost as often as Wii (didn't see them today during my trip to the mall) in my experience. Wonder if Nintendo is cutting into their DS resources to push Wii. Because I honestly doubt that if DS supply was even at only September 2006 levels it would sell just 238,000 in January. The PSP numbers are pretty inline with pre-holiday season. DS Lite is considerably lower.

[PKBMax]

Wii has reached nearly half of the 360's install base in only 3 months.

[Rem]

Jesus, the collective hard on people have for the wii is amazing. You would think with numbers like that it would have games worth playing.

[SpoDaddy]

If those other platform numbers are correct, I'm very surprised by the DS Lite numbers. The system has been sold out almost as often as Wii (didn't see them today during my trip to the mall) in my experience. Wonder if Nintendo is cutting into their DS resources to push Wii. Because I honestly doubt that if DS supply was even at only September 2006 levels it would sell just 238,000 in January. The PSP numbers are pretty inline with pre-holiday season. DS Lite is considerably lower.

From what I've heard Nintendo's DS shipments since Christmas have been very low compared to Wii; perhaps there's a manufacturing bottleneck between the two.

[Joust Williams]

LOL, indeed. As long as the devs worth a damn keep making 360 games, it's all good ;p

The Wii drought rolls on...

[SpoDaddy]

You've already forgotten that Sonic came out today? You were trolling the internet for reviews of it only a couple hours ago.....

[James]

Jesus, the collective hard on people have for the wii is amazing. You would think with numbers like that it would have games worth playing.

It takes developers a while to switch from "What the hell is this!?" to "Crap, millions of people have it and we've got nothing." Unless you're Ubisoft, of course, in which case you wave your magic wand of sholveware.

James