How to confirm that the Wii is still the best selling console |
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| BY Matthew Razak Jan. 20th, 2009 | More on: |

We all know that it is a scientifically proven fact that eBay is the perfect way to track market trends. Any economist can tell you that when things are desired the prices go way up on eBay and when they aren’t desired they hover around the actual price range. Simple economy, and a great way to judge which videogame systems are in hot demand. However, previously there was no easy and cool looking graph to keep track of how well systems are selling. Now Terapeak.com has solved that pesky issue with their new videogames index which tracks and compares consoles in terms of total items sold, total sales, and average selling price on eBay.
Of course we all know the Wii is dominating the Wii/PS3/360 comparison charts and the DS and PSP are duking it out on the PSP/DS chart, but what’s really cool is that they have a Dreamcast/PS2/Xbox/GC chart. Sadly everyone’s beloved Dreamcast seems to be running in last place in total revenue, expect for an odd spike that happened on Jan. 13. I’m just wondering why people are still paying almost $100 too much for a Wii. I mean it’s hard to find, but paying more for one than a PS3 just makes no sense at all, especially after the holidays. If you’re desperately interested in such things as these, the site updates daily so your curiosity can be quenched.









January 20th, 2009
at 6:58 pm
You know, it FEELS like the wii should have really ambitious and innovative games taking advantage of the controller to really excite everyone. Instead, everyone just wants to swing tennis rackets or step on digital and fancy weight machines. And worse, Nintendo seems to be just riding with it not offering anything challenging at all. Gah this system should have been so much cooler by now!
January 20th, 2009
at 7:28 pm
as someone who owns all the consoles (yeah I need a life) I can honestly say the wii is my least used.
this year looks better for the wii though.
January 21st, 2009
at 12:01 am
Looking at how the Wii is selling, we should be getting more great games for the Wii, I hope this year 2009 can change all that.