NerdNirvana have a post apparently showing the current number of sold units on all three of the supposed ‘next generation’ consoles - the Xbox 360, the PS3 and the Wii.

Rather unsurprisingly, the Xbox 360 wins at the moment, having been out for the longest time period, and the PS3 lags somewhat, presumably because of the delays in shipping and the low availability of the console.

Nintendo, apparently, seem to be doing a lot better and have shipped over 1,000,000 Wii consoles already. It’s only one seventh of Xbox 360 sales, but considering we’ve barely had a few weeks with the Wii, it’s looking very promising.

Nintendo’s strategy as far as battling the titans of Sony and Microsoft is to aim at the market with a different angle. The Wii is clearly not trying to be the absolute best graphics, and they’re focusing on innovating on the way we play video games (the Wiimote) and going for the pure ‘fun’ factor over seriously big-budget titles.

Whether this will propel Nintendo into a higher market and mind share than they had in the last round with the GameCube, we won’t know yet. And until Sony gain momentum with the PS3 shipping lots of units, we won’t know whether Microsoft will get another industry tightly in its grip or not.

[NerdNirvana via CrunchGear]