Wii Install Base: 40 Million

By Jorge Ba-oh 06.08.2009 12

Wii Install Base: 40 Million on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

According to figures from GfK/Chart-Track and NPD, the Wii has an install base of over 40 million.

In the Activision Blizzard Q2 2009 report issued earlier this week, the company posted combined figures for North America and Europe, revealing a strong lead for the Wii in the home console pack.

Install Base - US/Europe

  • Wii: 40M
  • 360: 27M
  • PS3: 16M
  • Handhelds: 96M
  • Total: 179M
  • Activision is also estimating a fairly large increase in Wii numbers before the end of the year, with over 50m projected before New Year's Eve.

    Thanks to NeoGAF.

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    Whoopee. All the userbase in the world means nothing if the majority of them are not buying games that don't have the word "Wii" (or, ironically, "Games") in the title. Nintendo needs to acknowledge this - I'm positive they're already aware of it.

    Wow I\'m shocked
    Not...
    Nintendo is world-famous
    You could despise Video Games but still know what A nintendo wii is!
    This is very small news to me

    ( Edited 06.08.2009 19:05 by Captian )

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    John:
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    too bad most of them dont buy good games

    Re4 sold more on the Wii then the Cube, despite being a port.

    Theres clearly more traditional gamers on the Wii overall, even if the percentage is lower, ergo, the lack of decent third party support is illogical.
    Fortuntely, it seems Monster Huner 3 has confirmed this.

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    Darkflame said:
    Re4 sold more on the Wii then the Cube, despite being a port.

    Well yes it's because They think the Wii has more features!
    + online play so people target Wii games thinking it's better

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    Darkflame said:
    Re4 sold more on the Wii then the Cube, despite being a port.

    Theres clearly more traditional gamers on the Wii overall, even if the percentage is lower, ergo, the lack of decent third party support is illogical.
    Fortuntely, it seems Monster Huner 3 has confirmed this.

    I don\'t think one game makes the wii a cash cow for third parties. Although you could be right: COD sold over 1mill. So well established franchises have sold. new franchises dont sell. But they arent just new they are incredibly niched. NMH, madworld, little kings story, HOTD dont scream mass appeal. But then a game like conduit might have sold half a mill over all regions had it been on 360.

    You have to be careful with franchises like monster hunter and DQ. They will sell almost on any console in japan. Secondary franchises like COD, RE and so will tell a better story of the wii audience. RE4 was released quite early on when there were a lot excited people regarding the wii and its potential. But games from nint and third parties havent been enough to keep many from jumping ship.

    ( Edited 06.08.2009 20:51 by meeto_0 )

    You can't just release a 3rd party game on the Wii and expect it to sell well. All the hype and critical acclaim in the world is not going to sell an FPS game if it isn't already a huge franchise.

    You need to know your audience, with 75% of Wii owners not playing any games but ones that Nintendo releases or party games. The hardcore percentage is still small, so that is the reason why big-name companies still are hesitant to develop exclusive games for the Wii.

    It dosnt prove its a cash cow.

    It DOES proove there is a traditional gamer audience bigger then that of the gamecube.
    If even one game sales in that quantity...let alone a few...it means the audience is there..


    Unless people are buying more then one copy of Re4 each (unlikely) or people are buying it thinking its a sports game (even more unlikely)....then it pretty conclusively prooves there is an audience for those sorts of games at least as big as the gamecubes.

    In fact, its going to be much bigger, because many people (like myself) arnt buying Re4 only because they already had it on the cube or ps2.

    So the -potential- audience for Re like games is probably at least double what even those sales figures were.

    3rd partys just clearly arnt making appealing enough games. Which is quite obviously when you look at the feebleness of there releases to this point.

    \"You have to be careful with franchises like monster hunter and DQ. They will sell almost on any console in japan.\"\"

    So?
    That dosnt mean the audience is smaller, it just means your getting people actualy buying the console specific for that game...thus making the \"traditional gamer\" audience even bigger.

    \"You need to know your audience, with 75% of Wii owners not playing any games but ones that Nintendo releases or party games. The hardcore percentage is still small, \"

    No, it ISNT.
    Its small as a percentage, but as Re4 sales clearly show it must...in total numbers...be quite a bit bigger then the cube.
    And its total numbers are important, not percentages.

    \"So well established franchises have sold. new franchises dont sell. But they arent just new they are incredibly niched. NMH, madworld, little kings story, HOTD dont scream mass appeal. But then a game like conduit might have sold half a mill over all regions had it been on 360.\"

    Dont think so.
    Conduit is only considered special due to its controlls.
    I think it would probably have sold worse on other platforms.

    New franchise\'s do struggle, but thats true on any platform.
    Even something as nifty and as well advertised as LittleBigPlanet didnt do that well commercialy.
    You could dismiss that as a niche genre too.
    But then TooHuman tanked on the Xbox, and thats a pretty mainstream game.

    Its hard doing a new IP on any platform..save possibly the DS.

    \"But games from nint and third parties havent been enough to keep many from jumping ship.\"

    That only maters if they actually sold the console, which is still a fairly minority market.

    ( Edited 07.08.2009 10:49 by Darkflame )

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    The problem with these new franchises is this: They are not exclusive, meaning, that they come out on 3 systems with X360 and PS3 being graphically enhanced. Most user, if they are cores, go for graphics, ergo buy PS3 or X360 and not Wii.
    Or, in the case of Conduit, won't buy it, because they compare it with other shooters on X360 and not with 1 or 2 on Wii. It stays on shelves.

    So it's only natural that Wii-franchises don't sell well.

    I find your lack of faith disturbing!

    Laurelin said:
    The problem with these new franchises is this: They are not exclusive, meaning, that they come out on 3 systems with X360 and PS3 being graphically enhanced. Most user, if they are cores, go for graphics, ergo buy PS3 or X360 and not Wii.
    Or, in the case of Conduit, won't buy it, because they compare it with other shooters on X360 and not with 1 or 2 on Wii. It stays on shelves.

    So it's only natural that Wii-franchises don't sell well.


    so your saying Wii gets the short end of the stick on graphics?

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    Darkflame, you shouldn't compare Wii numbers to Gamecube numbers, because it was terrible for 3rd parties. Marginally outselling the cube version means nothing, especially when the inferior PS2 version did so much better.

    Compare it to Resident Evil 5 sales (considered a much worse game) of over 4 million across two consoles with "tiny" install bases and you can see why these types of games don't make it on the Wii.

    I'm not saying that a mainstream game like Resident Evil can't sell well on the Wii, I'm saying it will never sell as well as on the Xbox360 or the PS3.

    Accept it, the audience isn't there. It is indeed a vicious circle- one that has been plaguing Nintendo consoles since the N64.

    PMD, so much better is 600k more than the Wii version on an install base of over 100 millions? Comparing RE 4 Wii to Re 5 is extremely smart, considering that RE 4 Wii was a port of an old game, and RE 5 was a totally new HEAVILY Advertised entry in the series.



    ( Edited 07.08.2009 20:24 by maeda )

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