Comments on: June NPD: Nintendo and Sony Prosper

By: Patrick Steen

Patrick Steen — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:28:01 +0000

Good for you Kojima. Great game btw.

More estimated numbers for you (using NPD, Media Create for Japan, and a European Estimate based on numbers we do know…ChartTrack gives us some)

2008 WW YTD:

Wii: 8.8m
PS3: 4.2m
360: 2.6m

WW Totals:

Wii: 28.1m
360: 18.2m
PS3: 13m

Kojima Suit Larry — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:05:49 +0000

I personally own one million PS3s myself.

Patrick Steen — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:05:58 +0000

According to NPD (which has hard data from 60% of US sales and makes very good estimates of the other 40%)

2008 YTD Sales:

Wii – 3,482,000
DS – 3,187,000
PS3 – 1,608,000
PSP – 1,482,000
360 – 1,354,000

I’m unaware of US totals, but we know the Wii is at 10.9m, the Xbox 360 must be at 10m (biggest market), and the PS3 is around 6 m (middle market).

John Landis — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:43:34 +0000

Total consoles sold. YTD is good also, so I guess both would be of interest.

Patrick Steen — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:08:24 +0000

US YTD or Console totals in US?

John Landis — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:32:13 +0000

What ARE the totals at this point?

Patrick Steen — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:33:09 +0000

You’re going to have to extend on your theory here. A “few people”? Like 5 million people in the US? And the US population is…300million.

The PS3 didn’t improve sales numbers because “a few” 5 million people had bought it already. It improved because of a console moving game – MGS4.

If you’re implying that the Xbox 360 sold less than the PS3 because everyone who wants to buy an Xbox 360 already has, then I think you’re wrong.