Xbox 360 beats Nintendo Wii as most searched for console of 2007 to date
By Jonathan Schlaffer
This is surprising. It turns out that the best selling console is not the most searched for. According to Google and a popular US morning news program, the Xbox 360 is the most searched for console with the Wii following in second place.
The Today Show dug up some data regarding console searches and found that the Xbox 360 was easily the most searched for. There’s almost no reasonable explanation why the Wii should be in second place since it is the most popular and best selling.
The Wii is still hard to find and despite Nintendo denying that it was trying to create an “artificial” demand for the console, it’s hard to believe that a year in there are still supply problems.
You might be able to argue that the searches related to the Xbox 360 are for the “red ring of death” but our previous post on the matter suggests that may not be the case. Maybe the searches were for the new 65nm processors or cooling solutions.
Either way, the Xbox 360 is the champion of Google searches and the Wii will be relegated to second place, if only the same became true for sales.
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December 3rd, 2007
Maybe you’d like to try to explain how the Wii has outsold the Xbox 360 in the middle of some diabolical supply/demand Nintendo plot to generate hype. Remeber that year’s head start the 360 had? Gone in the blink of an eye. Microsoft should have focused on delivering some stable hardware for another year, as opposed to taking advantage of millions of un-suspecting guinea pigs by jumping the gun on this generation.
December 3rd, 2007
Its not surprising seeing as there were millions of people with failing consoles trying to find out what to do.
December 3rd, 2007
I know I always search for the XBox 2 on Google in hopes that it has finally failed in the “next-gen” war, or killed a little kid by catching on fire or something. Maybe all the search attention is from all those angry purchasers whose systems have RROD’d, or more likely . . . some lonely little MS employee at a terminal somewhere in Redmond, Wa. repeatedly typing XBox 360 into a search engine . . . for 8hrs a day.
December 3rd, 2007
“Either way, the Xbox 360 is the champion of Google searches and the Wii will be relegated to second place, if only the same became true for sales.”
So, you have finally given up any semblance of objectiveness and unbiased reporting then….wonderful.
I would, again, point out the many fallacies in your “argument” but it is becoming more and more apparent that you are not searching for the truth. So I will let you sit in your little corner of the internet mumbling to yourself “the Wii is not popular, the Wii is not popular”.
December 3rd, 2007
By the way, one very simple (and easily thought of if you’re not too stupid to think for yourself) explanation: The 360’s audience is more tech savvy. Or there are more games that people are looking up. Or…
I think you are seeing why I, yet again, feel that you should never be allowed near a keyboard again in your life.
December 3rd, 2007
The Wii serves a market… a market that doesn’t have HDTVs… a market that I’m so glad I don’t belong to.
Yes, some with Xbox 360s don’t have HDTVs and that’s a shame… but better than having a Wii, at least they’ll have an HD signal when they get one.
December 3rd, 2007
By that logic the NES made a poor decision in not including HD as an option. Sure, no one had the technology, but they would someday…
I HOPE that you see where I am going with this. By the time I get an HDTV the Wii 2 will be out and will almost certainly offer HD. At this point however HD has very little penetration to warrant the expenditure. I am guessing that Sony and Microsoft feel the same way given their huge financial losses due to the expense of the hardware they are producing.
To make my argument simpler, since it seems you require that, you said…
“Yes, some with Xbox 360s don’t have HDTVs and that’s a shame… but better than having a Wii, at least they’ll have an HD signal when they get one.”
When most people have an HDTV, which should be in 5-10 years, there will be whole new systems. Wii 2 will have HD and no one will be playing those 360’s that Microsoft lost so much money trying to get into people’s houses. Understand?
December 4th, 2007
By that logic the NES made a poor decision in not including HD as an option. Sure, no one had the technology, but they would someday…
I HOPE that you see where I am going with this. By the time I get an HDTV the Wii 2 will be out and will almost certainly offer HD. At this point however HD has very little penetration to warrant the expenditure. I am guessing that Sony and Microsoft feel the same way given their huge financial losses due to the expense of the hardware they are producing.
To make my argument simpler, since it seems you require that, you said…
“Yes, some with Xbox 360s don’t have HDTVs and that’s a shame… but better than having a Wii, at least they’ll have an HD signal when they get one.”
When most people have an HDTV, which should be in 5-10 years, there will be whole new systems. Wii 2 will have HD and no one will be playing those 360’s that Microsoft lost so much money trying to get into people’s houses. Understand?
P.S. Replies like this just go to show your extreme prejudice. Should a supposedly impartial reporter be this obviously, and admittedly in most circumstances, bias toward over 40% of the market they represent?
December 4th, 2007
LOL, artificial demand. That’s pretty pathetic. Did you know they are now producing 1.8 million Wiis a month? In comparison, MS, at the HEIGHT of Christmas 2006, was still only producing about 800K Xbox 360 consoles a month. No other console in history has sold an average of 1 million consoles every month during non-holiday months, not even the PS2. When the Gamecube was released, Nintendo was producing around 320K a month. That’s a massive increase to go from 320K to 1.8M. Especially when you consider that it takes twice as many GC’s to make a Wii (it’s just two GC’s duct taped together, after all
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December 4th, 2007
I like how your post are increasingly less hostile. Keep up the good work.
December 5th, 2007
My reasons for searching the Xbox 360 on GOOGLE was because Microsoft was coming out with many games I was thinking of getting on my top tengames to buy. Also I wanted to know about extra hardware and software add-ons. My main reason was to know when the 65nm Processsor was going to be released!