[QUOTE="Deiradinn"]

It's not officially over yet but these are the numbers as of right now for this generation of consoles, the 7th.

1. Wii - 99.8 Million
2. PS3 - 78.2
3. 360 - 77.9
http://www.vgchartz.com/ - updated weekly

The PS3 just surpassed the 360 the week before E3 and has steadily kept moving ahead of it over the last month. Whether you like it or not, Nintendo won this generation. You may not like family friendly games, waggle tech, or 1st person heavy development, but you can't argue with the numbers. The Wii also had the lowest fail rate, leading to longer lives of the hardware. The 360 and PS3 sales could be inflated by the sheer numbers of RROD or YLOD consumers who had to buy a new system instead of repairing or sending it in.

The overall leader is Nintendo with 3 console war wins. It won the 8-bit era, the 16 bit era, and the 7th generation. (6x system war winner if you count handheld)
Sony has won two console wars, the 5th and 6th with the Playstation 1 & 2. Sony has never place 3rd.
Microsoft has never won a console war. The Xbox beat the Gamecube for 2nd place in the 6th war by 2.3m
(The 360 is the 9th best selling console of all time)

Nintendo has won by a landslide, will win the third, all the handheld wars. The 3DS/PSvita is the third.

The best selling console of all time is the PS2 with 150 million hardware sales.
The best selling handheld and overall gaming device of all time is the Nintendo DS, with 153 million hardware sales.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_wars

Top game sales in history.
1. Wii Sports - 81.3m
2. Super Mario Bros. (NES) - 40.2m
3. Mario Kart Wii - 33.8m
4. Wii Sports Resort - 31.7m
5. Pokemon Red/Green/Blue (GB) - 31.3m
The top 15 global game sales are all Nintendo games.
http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/

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Personally, I've always enjoyed all brands and games. It usually was a game that sold a system to me. One thing that will always remain is my adoration for Nintendo. You don't always have to M-rated content to be "cool". I'm 29 and still love Nintendo, as well as my 7 year old son. That being said, I have played a ton of Playstation, all of them. It's my favorite brand for gaming at this time, but I still enjoyed what Microsoft had to offer. I bought the Xbox for Fable, the 360 for Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey but loved and played a lot of 360 games as well. Gamerscore of over 40K.

I try not to be a fanboy at all but with this next generation about to hit I'll probably be a PS4/Wii U player. The only reason I might get a XB1 is for a third party exclusive like Lost Odyssey 2, or Blue Dragon 2. Huge fan of Hironobu Sakaguchi. I always have to have a Nintendo console, it's just a have to for me and my family. TLOZ, Mario, DK, Metroid, SSB... I always enjoy these titles.

I hope you enjoyed this post, took me a little bit to make it. If I had any typos or errors plz let me know.

 

kingtito

1st not lvl 10

2ndThose numbers include PS2 sales

3rd Vgvharts lol

The only numbers that count are the offcial numbers released from Sony, MS and Nintendo and right now the Wii is 1st, 360 2nd and PS3 3rd. Until Sony comes out with numbers that have them ahead of the 360 it's still in last place.

[QUOTE="Deiradinn"]

[QUOTE="rjdofu"] lolvgchartz is an obligatory response for someone who use vgchartz as their main source of argument. That means their entire argument is rubbish.

As for your question, I also think it has jackshit in term of practical consequences. Sales number means very little when there're way too many other factors that determine a company status: cost vs price, software sales, other financial incomes other than hardware sales (XBL/PS+ for example), etc. It means even less to gamers. It was shown in history that having a sky rocketed budget doesn't make a game automatically great; while many great quality titles still come from low budget and talented devs.

If there's someone who "lost" last gen, it's Sony, since the PS3 is obviously a downgrade from the PS2 legacy. That happens due to the fact that MS has stepped up the game with the 360, as well as many other factors as mentioned above. People only care about sales here, because this is SW.

rjdofu

[QUOTE="Riverwolf007"]

[QUOTE="rjdofu"]lolvgchartzrjdofu

the important part for me is so what?

this is the same thing i have been trying to get across about the ps3 being in last for the last  7 years.

what does it  have to do with gaming and the quality of the titles?

everyone has 3rd party support so the entire reason for the importance of sales is meaningless because there is no real world problems associated with where you come in.

i'm worried about practical consequences not some baby ass emotional aspect.

As for your question, I also think it has jackshit in term of practical consequences. Sales number means very little when there're way too many other factors that determine a company status: cost vs price, software sales, other financial incomes other than hardware sales (XBL/PS+ for example), etc. It means even less to gamers. It was shown in history that having a sky rocketed budget doesn't make a game automatically great; while many great quality titles still come from low budget and talented devs.

If there's someone who "lost" last gen, it's Sony, since the PS3 is obviously a downgrade from the PS2 legacy. That happens due to the fact that MS has stepped up the game with the 360, as well as many other factors as mentioned above. People only care about sales here, because this is SW.

lollevel5 lolvgchartz etc etcDesmonic

[QUOTE="rjdofu"]lolvgchartzRiverwolf007

the important part for me is so what?

this is the same thing i have been trying to get across about the ps3 being in last for the last  7 years.

what does it  have to do with gaming and the quality of the titles?

everyone has 3rd party support so the entire reason for the importance of sales is meaningless because there is no real world problems associated with where you come in.

i'm worried about practical consequences not some baby ass emotional aspect.

Nintendo is the real loser of the 3 when you consider where they are now and where they're headed compared to the other 2. 

clr84651

It's not officially over yet but these are the numbers as of right now for this generation of consoles, the 7th. 

1. Wii - 99.8 Million
2. PS3 - 78.2
3. 360 - 77.9
http://www.vgchartz.com/ - updated weekly

The PS3 just surpassed the 360 the week before E3 and has steadily kept moving ahead of it over the last month. Whether you like it or not, Nintendo won this generation. You may not like family friendly games, waggle tech, or 1st person heavy development, but you can't argue with the numbers. The Wii also had the lowest fail rate, leading to longer lives of the hardware. The 360 and PS3 sales could be inflated by the sheer numbers of RROD or YLOD consumers who had to buy a new system instead of repairing or sending it in.

The overall leader is Nintendo with 3 console war wins. It won the 8-bit era, the 16 bit era, and the 7th generation. (6x system war winner if you count handheld)
Sony has won two console wars, the 5th and 6th with the Playstation 1 & 2. Sony has never place 3rd. 
Microsoft has never won a console war. The Xbox beat the Gamecube for 2nd place in the 6th war by 2.3m
(The 360 is the 9th best selling console of all time)

Nintendo has won by a landslide, will win the third, all the handheld wars. The 3DS/PSvita is the third.

The best selling console of all time is the PS2 with 150 million hardware sales.
The best selling handheld and overall gaming device of all time is the Nintendo DS, with 153 million hardware sales.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_wars

Top game sales in history.
1. Wii Sports - 81.3m
2. Super Mario Bros. (NES) - 40.2m
3. Mario Kart Wii - 33.8m
4. Wii Sports Resort - 31.7m
5. Pokemon Red/Green/Blue (GB) - 31.3m
The top 15 global game sales are all Nintendo games.
http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/

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Personally, I've always enjoyed all brands and games. It usually was a game that sold a system to me. One thing that will always remain is my adoration for Nintendo. You don't always have to M-rated content to be "cool". I'm 29 and still love Nintendo, as well as my 7 year old son. That being said, I have played a ton of Playstation, all of them. It's my favorite brand for gaming at this time, but I still enjoyed what Microsoft had to offer. I bought the Xbox for Fable, the 360 for Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey but loved and played a lot of 360 games as well. Gamerscore of over 40K. 

I try not to be a fanboy at all but with this next generation about to hit I'll probably be a PS4/Wii U player. The only reason I might get a XB1 is for a third party exclusive like Lost Odyssey 2, or Blue Dragon 2. Huge fan of Hironobu Sakaguchi. I always have to have a Nintendo console, it's just a have to for me and my family. TLOZ, Mario, DK, Metroid, SSB... I always enjoy these titles. 

I hope you enjoyed this post, took me a little bit to make it. If I had any typos or errors plz let me know.  

The PS4 was made with developers in mind, they learned from past mistakes so this actually makes no sense. Try to compare a high profile PS3 exclusive to a 360 exclusive and it's not even a competition. The only real difference I noticed is load times on 360 and that comes from installing the disc because the 360 is do damn loud.

Third party games will run better on PS4, even Jact Trenton went as far as saying that in an interview with Geogg Knightley.  

Online requirement, no renting, no borrowing, pirvacy concerns, drm, used games unclarified... I'm not at all worried about Playstation. Xbox One is a terrible mess and most people know it and will not adhere and buy a console just for one game they'll be tired of in a month or so.

I want whatever you're smoking!