Fanboys… start your engines! Something that I will be revisiting every few weeks are the sales figures for consoles and games for the United States. I am not even going to attempt the Japanese market because that is a whole new ballgame.
Here are the consoles sales in the past year from this past week as well as the percent difference in sales over that time. Be careful the results may astound you. Hit the jump for all the info. Commence flame war… Now!
23-Feb 16-Feb
Wii 78,975 47,702 +66%
DS 116,674 166,899 -30%
PS3 94,106 80,214 +17%
PSP 55,881 62,493 -11%
Xbox 360 87,569 79,204 +11%
PS2 64,075 63,277 +1%
2/23/2008 2/24/2007 YoY Change
Wii 78,975 96,211 -18%
DS 116,674 198,951 -41%
PS3 94,106 27,602 +241%
PSP 55,881 45,494 +23%
Xbox 360 87,569 66,848 +31%
PS2 64,075 86,350 -26%
You can plainly see here some obvious trends. Wii sales are most likely down to its unavailability and lackluster lineup. The Xbox 360 has show steady growth, while the PS3 has grown over two fold because it now has a competitive gaming library as well as successful price cuts. It would be fair to say the Blu-ray victory everyone saw coming over the past 4 months may have aided that.
What do you guys think? Click here for the entire article which also shows the best selling games of the past week.
5 Comments
Write a Comment»Wow, the PS2 actually went up? The only ones to go down are both handhelds.
So is MIcrosoft going to continue the “Shortage” even through GTAIV? It looks like they’ll be doing that I have no doubt about it. It’s going to get spun as well “With the Release of GTAIV we have released a high demand for the system and we are trying our best to get more out for these consumers that want GTAIV and many of our AAA titles that can only be found on the xbox360″.
The shortage only works for Nintendo. They made one 6 months in advance and is playing stupid. lawlz.
I don’t know why the Wii refuses to get third party games that don’t relate to anime.
why are the handheld sales down? oO
Shortage? >>
DS sales are down?! That’s unpossible!