Wii passes lifetime sales of GameCube in Japan
by Chris Greenhough 
on Dec 13th 2007 7:00PM
NeoGAFfer
JoshuaJSlone has devoted a
serious amount of time to compiling weekly hardware
sales figures in Japan, as they appear in
Famitsu. That sounds like a task of almost Sisyphean proportions, but it's not all thankless. This week, for instance, his legwork and
terrifying table of numbers (mercifully translated into the graph above) threw up an interesting little factoid: lifetime sales of the Wii in Japan have now
surpassed those of the GameCube. Which is darn impressive, considering the Wii has been in Japanese stores for just 54 weeks.
Our new favorite NeoGAFfer also took the time to compare those first 54 weeks of the Wii's life with other
consoles. Turns out the GBA needed only 40 weeks to reach where the Wii is now, and the DS an almost identical 53.7 weeks. What could have been in a world without Wii shortages, eh? Interestingly, the Wii is even outperforming the
PlayStation 2, which required approximately 66 weeks to reach the Wii's current total.
For more graph-related tomfoolery, and to see how the
PS3 is faring against the Wii (clue: it's not faring well, but let's not be
complacent), head past the break.
[Via
NeoGAF]
