2012 Year on Year Sales and Market Share Update to February 25th - News
by Miles Taven , posted on 06 March 2012 / 8,068 Views
Here we see data representing the global sales through to consumers and change in sales performance of the three home consoles over comparable periods for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Also shown is the market share for each of the consoles over the same periods.
"Year to date" sales for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 sales are shown in series at the top of the table and then just below a comparison of 2012 versus 2010 and 2012 versus 2011 is displayed. This provides an easy-to-view summary of all the data.
Microsoft
Xbox 360 - Down YOY 68k, YTD -28.38%
Sony
Playstation 3 - Down YOY 87k, YTD -21.70%
Playstation Vita - n/a
Nintendo
Nintendo Wii - Down YOY 110k, YTD -48.75%
Nintendo 3DS - Down YOY 127k, YTD 476%
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Hardware: DS 2012 - 526.9k, 2011 - 1,743.5k --- 60.8% drop --- PSP 2012 - 567.0, 2011 - 1052.3k -- 46.1% drop --- PS2 2011 474.1k (est drop 40%) Note I est this based on the pattern PS2 has shown on VGC in the several years they provided PS2 figures while paying attention to media create japanese sales)-------------------------------------------------------------------- Software: DS 2012 - 5,910k, 2011 - 12,607k --- 53.1% drop --- PSP 2012 - 3,087k, 2011 - 5,853k --- 47.3% drop --- PS2 2011 - 1,561k
Notice that DS is dropping in both hardware and software? This is because not only was DS replaced with the 3DS in Japan at this time (and people considering a DS would likely wait and think about a 3DS instead now), but also because DS was still receiving abundant software. Pokemon Black/White was still relatively fresh in Japan, and people were still buying games from fall 2010. The difference will likely even out a bit over the next month now that PSP sales are likely to crash as well with PSV out globally, but then rise again in April as the DS had Pokemon Black/White release in April of last year, which gave a large boost to software and a modest hardware boosts.---------------------------------------------- Expect DS and PSP sales to be similar until Pokemon Black/White 2 releases, and this will correspond to a larger % drop on the DS then PSP.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would love to give you PS2 data, but.....I can't now that VGC no longer supplies the data (I assume it's because they can't track it well, when PS2 was removed VGC had it at 145 million sales and with the system only selling a couple million a year, it somehow jumped in their totals to 152 million.....
Oh Market Share!
2011 7th Gen only - DS 62.3%, PSP 37.7%----------------------------------------
2012 7th Gen only - DS 48.2%, PSP 51.8%---------------------------------------
2011 Total Handheld - DS 55%, PSP 33.2%, 3DS 11.8%
2012 Total Handheld - DS 13.2%, PSP 14.2%, 3DS 54.1%, PSV 18.5%
OP was too lazy to do software, so I will be too :P
