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Halo 3 Pushes Xbox 360 Into Lead Over Wii
Next generation game console sales figures for September are in from the NPD Group. While we don't know what the long term effects will be, it looks very good for Xbox - at least this week. The sales numbers work out as follows:
* Xbox 360: 527,800
* Nintendo Wii: 501,000
* Nintendo DS: 495,800
* PlayStation Portable: 284,500
* PlayStation 2: 215,000
* PlayStation 3: 119,400
* Game Boy Advance: 75,000
The Xbox 360 comes out on top followed by the Wii while the Playstation 3 is only able to trump the aging handheld Game Boy Advance and again loses to the Playstation 2 by a wide margin.
The Xbox numbers are a huge jump from August, which also saw a jump to 276,000 units, up from declining sales number of 198,000 units in June to 170,000 units in July. These sales figures for the 360 are also significant because it trumps what is the Wii’s second best sales month.
Playing with the numbers some, we get the following sales ratios to the trailing PS3:
* XB 360/PS3: 4.42
* Wii/PS3: 4.20
* PS2/PS3: 1.80
* GBA/PS3: 0.63
Considering how strong PS2 sales remain, it is obvious that consumers must still be interested in the games available on that platform. It will be interesting to see the effect on the new $399 version of the PS3, due out November 2nd that ditches backwards compatibility with PS2 titles by eliminating the hardware emulation available in previous PS3 models to close the price gap with the Xbox 360.
For those consumers who are still interested in buying a PS2 consoles for the titles not available in a PS3 version, the $100 price break evaporates because it is cheaper to buy the $499 version with backwards compatibility than to fork out $129 for a PS2.
The last price break for the PS3 bumped up third place sales somewhat but seems to have petered out after a couple of months and never move Sony up the race.
Halo 3 Pushes Xbox 360 Into Lead Over Wii
Next generation game console sales figures for September are in from the NPD Group. While we don't know what the long term effects will be, it looks very good for Xbox - at least this week. The sales numbers work out as follows:
* Xbox 360: 527,800
* Nintendo Wii: 501,000
* Nintendo DS: 495,800
* PlayStation Portable: 284,500
* PlayStation 2: 215,000
* PlayStation 3: 119,400
* Game Boy Advance: 75,000
The Xbox 360 comes out on top followed by the Wii while the Playstation 3 is only able to trump the aging handheld Game Boy Advance and again loses to the Playstation 2 by a wide margin.
The Xbox numbers are a huge jump from August, which also saw a jump to 276,000 units, up from declining sales number of 198,000 units in June to 170,000 units in July. These sales figures for the 360 are also significant because it trumps what is the Wii’s second best sales month.
Playing with the numbers some, we get the following sales ratios to the trailing PS3:
* XB 360/PS3: 4.42
* Wii/PS3: 4.20
* PS2/PS3: 1.80
* GBA/PS3: 0.63
Considering how strong PS2 sales remain, it is obvious that consumers must still be interested in the games available on that platform. It will be interesting to see the effect on the new $399 version of the PS3, due out November 2nd that ditches backwards compatibility with PS2 titles by eliminating the hardware emulation available in previous PS3 models to close the price gap with the Xbox 360.
For those consumers who are still interested in buying a PS2 consoles for the titles not available in a PS3 version, the $100 price break evaporates because it is cheaper to buy the $499 version with backwards compatibility than to fork out $129 for a PS2.
The last price break for the PS3 bumped up third place sales somewhat but seems to have petered out after a couple of months and never move Sony up the race.
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