Switch vs Wii – VGChartz Gap Charts – November 2019 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 January 2020 / 8,143 Views
The VGChartz Gap charts are updated monthly and each article focuses on a different gap chart. The charts include comparisons between the 7th generation and 8th generation platforms, as well as comparisons within the 8th generation. All sales are worldwide, unless otherwise stated.
Switch Vs. Wii Global:
Gap change in latest month: 3,235,632 - NS
Gap change over last 12 months: 999,143 - Wii
Total Lead: 6,491,671 - Wii
Switch Total Sales: 44,771,334
Wii Total Sales: 51,263,005
November 2019 is the 33rd month that the Nintendo Switch has been available for. During the latest month the Switch caught up with the Wii by 3.24 million units. In the last 12 months the Wii has outsold the Switch by 1.00 million units. The Wii is currently ahead of the Switch by 6.49 million units.
The Wii launched in November 2006, while the Nintendo Switch launched in March 2017. The Switch has sold 44.77 million units, while the Wii sold 51.26 million units during the same timeframe.
The 33rd month for the Nintendo Switch is November 2019 and for the Wii it is July 2009.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD
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Wii was prematurely abandoned after 4 years, so Switch should outlast it in the long run.
@haxxiy That's about as many games as Nintendo put on 3DS post Switch launch. So I guess you're right. They didn't completely abandon it. But they didn't give half as much effort as they could have.
I still can not imagine a different scenario for the Switch. Eventually the collapse will happen one year later for the Switch, but here with just SquareEnix and Capcom, we can see that these 2 big doesn't give a shit about the Switch, they have NO produced at all any serious AAA game for the Switch in 3 years. So once the PS5 and XSX are out, the Switch will only receive heavy AAA games from Nintendo and their studios.
@Amnesia: That only Nintendo produced AAA was no hindrance for Switchsales so far. And well, a collapse - I say PS4 sales will collapse in 2021. :-) Every console will see a collapse in sales eventually, the question is if it happens after 20M sales or after 100M sales. I grew quite confident over the last year, that it will happen for Switch after 100M.
@haxxiy: The games you count for Wii were released in the two years before(!) the release of a successor, other consoles (like 3DS) show similar support after(!) the release of the successor.
Agreed! Plus, even post-Wii U the Wii managed to sell significantly more software. Nintendo would have been better off focusing heavily on Wii instead of Wii U. Perhaps the whole Wii HD would have been a good idea after all. Something half the price of the Wii U with scalable graphics similar to how PC titles work with different hardware (although, I am unsure if Wii hardware would have this capability). Although, Wii U was just not a good idea. I know it has its defenders, but people need to take off their blinders and stop ignoring the clear problems with the marketability of Wii U (same thing happened with GameCube, and there are still militant fans to this day still fighting for its glory, like old Japanese soldiers on an island in the 1980s not realizing Japan had been defeated decades ago).
Switch is great but the Wii was a phenomenon.
We'll see if it has more longevity.
Well, so far we haven't even had December. This makes me quite hopeful that after Wii's holidays hit the gap will still be smaller than 10M.
I mean it's impressive considering how front loaded the Wii was. That said, Wii still has its legendary 2009 holidays/December to come. After that though the Switch should be playing catch up
As people have said, I really hope Nintendo sticks with this console longer, and perhaps rather than jumping into something like a Switch-U, go for a Switch 2... Updated Switch OS rather than a brand new OS, updated hardware rather than completely different hardware.
Speaking of OSs, the Wii was a thing of beauty. I am sad that it’s all done now. It felt like a party constantly going on, while the Wii U was a little clunky and felt a less like a party and more like a dead mall.
I like Switch for its simplicity, but I’d welcome more Wii-ish channels. Give me something with the news and the weather with a globe to spin around! I do like the Switch’s news channel, but something about it feels a bit off from the Wii. Maybe it’s the style of videos, feel too commercial. I want VC Thursday’s (or whatever day it was) to make a comeback, maybe not “VC” but something like that. Anyway, I am totally rambling. I loved the Wii, and I love the Switch. Perhaps my two favourite consoles ever, although NES and SNES also hold similarly special places in my heart.
@Mnementh I just hope you will remember this discussion. I bet for a collapse when the Switch will be around 70-73 millions just after the fiscal Q3 of next year.
Wii sold around 800k in August 2009 (till week end august 29th). So if Switch manages to sell more than 7.3 million in December 2019, it will surpass Wii for the moment. But well... I assume... it won't do that^^
