2012 Year on Year Sales and Market Share Update to August 4th - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 10 August 2012 / 5,726 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 Comparison (Same Periods Covered)
Market Share (Same Periods Covered)
2009 – (Week beginning January 4 to August 8)
2010 – (Week beginning January 3 to August 7)
2011 – (Week beginning January 2 to August 6)
2012 – (Week beginning January 1 to August 4)
Total Sales and Market Share for Each Year
"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 Year-on-Year 46k, Year to Date -23.9%
Sony
PlayStation 3 – Down Year-on-Year 36k, Year to Date -12.8%
PlayStation Vita - n/a
Nintendo
Nintendo Wii - Down Year-on-Year 36k, Year to Date -48.4%
Nintendo 3DS - Up Year-on-Year 215k, Year to Date 62.3%
Contact VGChartz at wdangelo@vgchartz.com
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While looking at Wii numbers is always sad, somehow I feel even worse when I look at the 7.9m YTD figure for 2009.
And then I remember that the Wii was being criticized for bad sales at that point...
false DS numbers
DS total is above 152 million
These aren't shipped numbers, and this are VGchartz numbers. So 151.8 million is pretty spot on.
