January NPD: PS3 Outsells Xbox 360 and DS
by Andrew Podolsky on February 14, 2008 at 8:31 pm
According to the January NPD numbers, the PS3 outperformed expectations and did extremely well in sales, outselling the Xbox 360 in the United States for the first month ever.
Nintendo’s two systems, the Wii and DS, both underperformed, even though the Wii overall sold better than the PS3 in January.
In terms of software, Activision’s Call of Duty 4 blew the doors off of sales for another month, with 330,900 units sold in January. The Wii version of Guitar Hero 3 also sold extremely well, selling 239,600 units bundled with the guitar peripheral.
Here are the full January NPD Hardware and Software results, as reported by the SimExchange:
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Source: TheSimExchange
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on February 15, 2008 12:14 am
You forgot PS2 at: 265,000
Oh! Congrats Sony, hopefully more to come. Good to see PS3 getting the sales it deserves. Lovin the PS3, it’s awesome.
on February 15, 2008 4:48 am
It looks like the ps3 and xbox 360 both sold 230k… am I missing something?
on February 15, 2008 5:38 am
I was looking at the wrong thing.. whoops.. that’s what happens when you’re sick x_X
on February 15, 2008 11:15 am
Microsoft is saying it was because of hardware shortages due to the incredible holiday sales. I personally have reason to believe them because finding an Elite was a complete whore.
on February 15, 2008 11:34 am
I wonder how many times you had to buy a 360 to find one that worked.
on February 15, 2008 4:28 pm
i happy my $865 playstation 3 was not for nothing
on February 16, 2008 8:07 am
@ LC
They all work when you buy them… for a while. Hopefully from here on out we’ll be hearing a lot less reports of RROD due to the improved internal configurations.
on February 16, 2008 8:33 am
not sure how improved they are, i bought one on the 2nd of this month and five days later it wouldn’t boot passed the 360 logo.
gonna see if i can find a store with any left later today.