Console Sales Bolster Year's Game Sales by 43%
Nintendo's recently crowned champion of worldwide sales unsurprisingly took the top spot for North American home console sales, as the Wii sold 403,600 units in August. Microsoft's Xbox 360 came in second with 276,700 units sold, followed by Sony's last-gen PlayStation 2 with 202,000, and capped off by the PlayStation 3's 130,600.
Regarding handheld sales, portable game hardware revenues for August were $83 million, up just 5.5% year-over-year. Though year-to-date sales of portables are still well ahead of 2006 at $832 million, a 20.5% increase. Nintendo sold 383,300 DS consoles in North America in August, more than twice the 151,200 PSPs sold.
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replyWow, the thrashing Sony's P3 is receiving is remarkable.
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I dunno, man, I don't see how the PS3 can catch the 360 given that the 360 will be constantly improving as the PS3 does and so the gap will remain constant. At this point, Sony is actually battling the 360 with its PS2. Does the PS3 even have a point to its existence in the face of this reality?
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Ohh, you mean big titles like Heavenly Sword, Warhawk and Lair? Those were supposed to be system sellers. The 360 was selling well before Gears. It definitely got a boost from said game but I bet the 360 gets a bigger boost from Halo3 than anything else.
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Uh, don't forget a certain title on the 25th. People keep saying just wait for PS3 titles but the other consoles aren't going to sit still either.
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ya it's like XBOX and wii are not getting any games untill 2 months after MGS4 come out.
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They would have been hits, cept for the price points. If anything kills Sony, it will be the fact that they chose to price their consoles at a non-competing cost. If they had priced the psp $50-%75 more than the DS then it would have been no contest. Same with the PS3.
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nope. 250, bought it launch day.
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That may be true--I'll take your word for it--but relative to the expansion in the gaming market that has occurred since those days and the fact Sony is now getting comparably a lot less of it, that distinction probably doesn't mean much in a business sense.
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well it is selling worse, at least in japan.
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they're best chance for recovery is to hang on until the rest of the world is ready to move to an HD console. As can be seen by the enormous Wii numbers and the still strong PS2 numbers, by and large, people aren't giving a shit about the 360 and PS3. That could be 2 or more years from now. By then, HD-DVD/Blu-Ray war will mean ALOT as the price points of the PS3 and 360 will likely be alot closer than they are now. I wouldn't be surprised if MS released an HD-DVD 360 SKU.
If BR is winning by that point, I predict the PS3 will beat the 360. If HD-DVD is winning then the 360 will keep the lead and probably extend it.
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