January NPD Console Sales
February 21st, 2007 Posted in Hardware, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360
NPD finally released the first console sales data of 2007. The Wii takes the top spot again, showing the lowest decrease in sales out of the three consoles compared to the record month of December 2006. The Wii is still in short supply all over North America (and Europe for that matter), and it doesn’t look like Nintendo has increased the production as promised.
The Xbox 360 sales were up 18% compared to last year, but the numbers would have been even higher if there weren’t shortages of the console. The PS3 on the other hand is seeing pretty decent sales, while no shortages are reported, contrary to Sony boss Jack Tretton’s comment.
- Wii – 436,000
- Xbox 360 – 294,000
- PlayStation 3 – 244,000
Read (Bloomberg)
February 21st, 2007 at 1:49 pm
picture the PlayStation 3 as being a train that is pulling a million tons…… all it needs is a little time to catch some speed
February 21st, 2007 at 3:51 pm
These sales are still for North America only. The Wii is also outselling the PS3 on Japan at least 3:1, dunno about Europe though, where the PS3 still hasn’t arrived.
February 21st, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Faith? I honestly don’t care if Wii does good or not. As long as Nintendo pulls it’s act together and starts finishing some good games, It doesn’t affect me one way or another. And what exactly is your source for the preorder numbers?
February 21st, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Oh, never mind. I see what you’re talking about, my apologies you did do some research before hand.
Here are my responses to those stats:
#1 #2
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:55 pm
[...] The analyst with the bold prediction, Yoshiyuki Kinoshita, based his decision the recent sales data, where the Wii is leading the sales in Japan, Europe and North America. 30% of U.S. households is [...]
February 22nd, 2007 at 5:22 pm
What i summed up was this: #1 the numbers are suspiciously hard to come by, and #2 there’s no denying that the PS3 is doing well in europe, but it may be slightly exaggerated.
Not exactly “anti PS3″, but just not solid nough yet to go with although the numbers for actual preorders will probably come sooner than later.
February 27th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
[...] Tags:console sales nintendo playstation 3 wii xbox 360 The early results are in, and they’re looking pretty damn good for Nintendo: their Wii console sold some 436,000 units in the U.S. in January, compared to 294,000 [...]
March 15th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Actually the Wii is only outselling the PS3 in Japan 2 to 1. And the sales for the PS3 are actually pretty impressive. To think that the PS3 is already catching the 360 with less than 25% of the games. I think people are just looking forward to the games coming to the PS3 more than the 360.
March 16th, 2007 at 12:02 am
ps3 will win these so called console wars, ps3 has better hardware and a better GPU PRoc from a better company Nvidia, i still cant belive Ati almost went banrupt last year , because nvidia had superoir sales and superior quality of v-cards over the proclaimed ATI company , i mean AMD had to buy off Ati so they wouldnt go bankrupt …… thats a BIIIIIGGG SHAME ..
March 16th, 2007 at 2:09 am
YIHAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA, The PS3 got beaten in USA by the Gameboy Advance. NO SERIOUSLY. Better hardware, since when has that been a selling factor? The gamecube had better hardware than the PS2. The N64 had better hardware than PSOne, didn’t help that one either. The PSP has better hardware than the DS, still it’s beaten by a 3-1 margin. I think Nintendo is back on safe ground with inferior graphical powers, but supreme and fun gameplay, just like they used to be.