In case you missed all the hubbub yesterday, Nintendo announced that over 600,000 Wii units were sold during the machine's US launch week, with 454,000 copies of Zelda following the machines out of stores across the continent. That's USD190m flooding into Nintendo's coffers. Gamasutra (or rather some guy with a calculator they employed for the purpose) predicted last week that the console will go onto ship 150,000-200,000 units per week for the rest of 2006.
As for PS3, apparently, all Sony would confirm is that all the machines it shipped to the US were sold out within a week. Now, this figure was supposed to be 400,000, but industry pundits reckon it could have been as low as 150,000-200,000. the company is sticking with its plans to have one million machines chugging ff the production lines by the end of the year.
The discrepancy in numbers hasn't stopped USA Today declaring Wii the champ based on some dodgy stats, gamer vox pops and a head-to-head review by respected videogame expert, Entertainment Weekly. Incidentally, USA Today refers to Wii as the underdog. Is that still the case? I'm not so sure.
