14 DAY TRIAL // Well, something that was only a matter of time, VGCharts and NexGenWars show that sales figures of the Wii have hit the 5 million mark. VGCharts even says that the Wii has already sold six million units worldwide, placing it on second place before Microsoft's Xbox 360 that sold an amazing 9 and a half million units, worldwide, since it was launched. The PS3 is on the third place with a mere 2 and a half million units sold worldwide so far.
Nintendo's handheld is also an undisputed winner of the genre having sold exactly 39.31million units up until this point and even though Sony's portable device, the PSP, sold pretty well it's still far behind Nintendo's DS, with only 20.90 million units sold worldwide.
NextGenWars assures that their numbers (slightly higher than VGCharts's for every console in part) are purely estimative but constantly monitored and updated: "NexGen Wars.com has spent countless hours researching sales facts from dozens of sources to track the worldwide sales of the consoles and monitor the next generation of console wars between the Microsoft Xbox 360, the Sony Playstation 3, and the Nintendo Wii. Remember, these numbers are only estimates, but they are constantly monitored and updated to assure the closest estimates possible for the Xbox 360, Playstation3, and Wii."
You can't argue with the figures, they always tell the truth even though sometimes we are to consider them as "roughly" or "give-or-take" numbers. And since graphs like these never say: "The DS has sold 40 million units world wide, give or take a couple of million," the situation is clear: Nintendo's Wii is again, the undisputed winner of the console wars.