Xbox 360 poised to overtake Wii

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Analyst reckons Microsoft's machine will outsell Nintendo's for the year ending March 2011 in the US
Back in September 2010 Microsoft made the bold claim that "there's been a mid-generation leadership change" in the hardware market. Now it looks like it might just have been right.
Speaking in an investor note, Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz has predicted that if current sales trends persist, Xbox 360 is poised to outsell the Nintendo Wii for the 12 months ending March 31st 2011.
Microsoft announced last night that it sold 535,000 consoles in the US last month – a record-breaking number for a non-holiday month.
It would be the first time the Wii have been trumped over an annual basis in the US since the machine launched.
“This illustrates the significant shift that has gone on over the last year in the console space,” Creutz explained. “The Wii was outselling the 360 and PS3 combined on a trailing 12 months basis as recently as January 2010, and was outselling the 360 alone by two-to-one in December 2009 and 1.5:1 in October 2010.
“Over the last three years, total US Xbox 360/PS3/Wii hardware unit sales have remained relatively consistent in the 17-19m unit range (18.2m as of February), so this does represent a share shift as opposed to just a decline for the Wii.
“We believe the significant shift in hardware sales towards HD consoles is a positive ongoing development for the US publishers, who earn the majority of their sales on the Xbox 360/PS3.”

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spy4561Posted:

I'll keep my Wii still, it might become more valuable but I dought it, unless I keep it for like 15-30 years O.o now theres an idea

CrysisYTPosted:

I knew this day would come but wii is stupid.

IMaximumHDPosted:

I figured that the day would come when xbox first announced the kinect info aka project natal would overthrow the wii by a long shot!

Jacob8hockeyPosted:

The only reason the wii is a contender is cause every family with a 10 or younger or even older people own one cause they thing they are 'cool'. :P

Now there got a slap to the face and realised its shit and moved onto a real console and got sold by kinect.

porter20Posted:

so MS is hoping to sell about 20 million 360 in a few weeks, from what I have read the Wii sales = 83 million and the 360 is about 55 million.

LostPosted:

I dident even think they were in the same Leagur maybe the original xbox

FrequencieSPosted:

the wii isnt too big here in the u.s. and idk about the uk. but its still HUGE in japan. and hopefully nintendos newer console,whenever it comes out, is more of a contender with sony's and xbox's next console

theartftwPosted:

Netflix I didn't even know the Wii would still be in the race. Does Nintendo even have anything special coming? Hahaha, GO MICROSOFT!!!:D


Actually they have the 3-ds coming soon. But other than that no..

NetflixPosted:

I didn't even know the Wii would still be in the race. Does Nintendo even have anything special coming? Hahaha, GO MICROSOFT!!!:D

theartftwPosted:

I didn't really think the wii was still this much of a contender


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