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Wii Sports (pack-in, except in Japan and South Korea) 40.5 million (as of December 31, 2008) Wii Play, 20.91 million (as of December 31, 2008)
Halo 2, 8 million (as of May 9, 2006)
Manufacturer:
Nintendo
Microsoft
Type:
Video game console
Video game console
Generation:
Seventh generation
Sixth generation era
Introduction (from Wikipedia):
The Wii (ウィー, Wī?, pronounced /ˈwiː/, like the pronoun we) is a home video game console released by Nintendo. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states tha
The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market, and competed directly with Sony's PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's GameCube. It was released on November 1
The Wii and the Xbox are two of the most popular video game consoles, along with the Sony PlayStation.
As of late June, Nintendo had sold 52.6 million Wii consoles; and said it expects to sell another 23.8 million by the March 2010 fiscal year end. Meanwhile, Microsoft had sold 31 million Xbox 360 consoles as of late August.
Nintendo announced a price drop to $200 for the Wii in September 2009. Sony reduced the price of its top-of-the-line PlayStation 3 by $100 to $300 in August, sparking big sales gains. Microsoft also reduced the cost of the most expensive Xbox 360 model to $300.
