Wii creams Xbox 360 and PS3 in the US
By John Pospisil
US sales figures from market research company NDP Group show that the Wii continues to dominate sales of next generation consoles.
Sales information for March 4 to April 7 showed that 259,000 Wiis were sold, compared to 199,000 Xbox 360s and 130,000 Playstation 3s.
Nintendo also did well overall, selling more than 508,000 Nintendo DS units. Sony’s aging, and now relatively cheap, Playstation 2, sold 208,000 units.
Hardware sales jumped 59% to $370 million dollars over the same period last year, which is no doubt a function of the new hardware now on offer.
Software sales also grew; up 15% to $574 million compared to the same period last year. Guitar Hero II was the biggest selling game.
US hardware sales figures - March 2007
Nintendo DS 508,000
PlayStation 2 280,000
Wii 259,000
Xbox 360 199,000
PlayStation Portable 180,000
Game Boy Advance 148,000
PlayStation 3 130,000
GameCube 22,000
US software sales figures - March 2007
Guitar Hero II w/ guitar - 291,000
Wii Play w/ remote - 273,000
Motorstorm - 199,000
Diddy Kong Racing - 189,000
Spectrobes - 165,000
Major League Baseball 2K7 - 165,000
MLB ‘07: The Show -164,000
Def Jam ICON - 148,000
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April 21st, 2007
[…] Sales information for March 4 to April 7 showed that 259,000 Wiis were sold, compared to 199,000 Xbox 360s and 130,000 Playstation 3s. - Gamer.Blorge.com […]
April 22nd, 2007
It sold 280,000!
April 23rd, 2007
I’ll have to make sure to bring this up next time I talk to Jonathan. I know he loves it when I talk about how much better the Wii is than the XBOX360…
April 25th, 2007
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July 16th, 2007
The Wii isn’t a competitor to either MS or Sony, they’ve effectively taken themselves out of the industry and created a new industry very much more in thinking with Nintendo. Cute games, gameplay, innovation. Mainly selling their own games and hardware.
Why do I say this, look at the sales figures for the games. Wii is lagging far behind. Why? Because those casual gamers don’t buy enough games to keep third party developers interested and kids will only be playing Nintendo until they’re 10.
MS and Sony are fighting this one, and it’s for not just games but IPTV (TV on demand) and even the internet however MS won’t want this too much as that will limit their Windows business (hench no browser on 360).
But let’s talk about games, once GTA4 and Halo3 comes out. It will force everyone to “upgrade” to the new consoles. Until those killer apps come out you can’t really say if it will or won’t be a success… btw - they will either be a success or the games industry is dead.
My money is still on MS.