For the Wiin

[kickaha]

Just ran across this nifty chart showing sales of the Wii, XBox 360, and PS3.

http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php

Note total Wii sales passing total 360 sales in the previous week or so.

Now here's one aligning launch dates, with two things to note: slope of PS3 sales is almost identical to slope of 360 sales. ie, neither is really selling better, the 360 just had a one year lead. Secondly, slope of Wii is, um, a bit steeper.

http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii®1=All&cons2=PS3®2=All&cons3=X360®3=All&align=1

Even if the data is off by a few % pts here and there, it's kind of stunning.

Comments

[badger.livejournal.com]

Unrelated to the impressive business totals, this link to a nice video of a Wii used as a controller for Kyma, a high-end audio effects application came across one of my lists today.

http://ssc-media.com/Movies/WiimoteOsculatorKyma-small.mov

I have neither Kyma nor Wii, but I can get a Wii, and I know one person locally with a full Kyma rig....

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Cool. I played with Darwiin Remote a couple weeks ago, which lets you use the Wii Remote as an input device for MacOS X... zomg. It lets you access every blasted bit of data from the bloody thing, including the accelerometers independently... and then assign those triggers to any action, keystroke, UI event trigger... you name it.

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[badger.livejournal.com]

You're just enabling me Wiiwards, aren't you?

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

*whistles tunelessly*

[arthane.livejournal.com]

That was just about the coolest use of the wiimote I've ever seen.