I’m doing some snooping into games consoles at the moment - I just got a PS3 the other month and I was wondering how many of the others, XBOX360 and Wii I guess in the “next gen” category, were out there to see how it compared. I know PS3 lags behind them all, but by how much? Because didn’t Sony get a real boost when they won the BlueRay vs. HD-DVD war? Oh, and dropped the price - that always works!
Anyway, I was looking, and it turns out there are about half as many PS3 in the world as there are XBox360s. And there are about 80% the XBox360s as there are Nintendo Wii.
This didn’t shock me - what I was expecting.
But what did shock me was this.
There are more Wii in the world than there are Apple Macs running OSX.
from what I read there are about 22,000,000 macs
and there are about 25,000,000 Wii
Now - that is impressive! No wonder there’s never any Nintendo consoles in my local Game shop.
Well done Nintendo. You may get knocked back a lot for being a gimmick, and not a “serious” games platform, but hell! You’d made good at it.