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2010 Year on Year Sales and Market Share Update to Feb 20th

by Brent Williams, posted on 26 February 2010 / 4,702 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 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.  Also shown is the market share for each of the consoles over the same periods.

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The performance of the Wii continues to be down year on year - year to date and it will probably join the 360 in being down overall for 2010 quite soon.  In terms of detail, the Wii this week is down by around 70,000 units or 18% when compared to this week last year, it is interesting to see that pretty much all of this drop comes from one region only... the Americas.  Wii market share total for 2010 slips below 50% for the first time this year.  

The PS3 is still performing well and is still healthily up against 2009 year on year - year to date by 42%.  The discrete year on year increase for this week is up yet again by 37%.   Everything points to the PS3 tracking up by around 30% on average until September when the slim sales of 2009 will kick in.  The PS3 could actually be showing a drop next week though compared to 2009 due to the Killzone 2 and Yakuza boosts it received at the same time last year.

The 360 is down this week by 20% in comparison to 2009.  As with the Wii it is interesting that the vast majority of this drop comes from one region only... this time Europe/Others.  Japan is down too but thats a neglibile figure in the grand scheme and US numbers are almost identical when compared to last year.  Microsoft seems content with this, for now.


10 Comments

Tridrakious
Tridrakious (on 27 February 2010)

PS3 falling behind 2009 once in the year is fine. It's been on fire since the launch of the Slim. I'm curious to see how PS3 2010 holds up to the 2nd half of 2009 though. That will be interesting.

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kowenicki
kowenicki (on 27 February 2010)

@4k1x3r Well as the next chart I produce is for the sales week ending 27th... what does FFXIII have to do with it? Its out March 9th.

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4k1x3r
4k1x3r (on 27 February 2010)

"The PS3 could actually be showing a drop next week though compared to 2009 due to the Killzone 2 and Yakuza boosts it received at the same time last year." Wha... there's FFXIII (i know, it's not an exclusives, but i think it will sell more on PS3, and boost the PS3 sales as well) GOW3 and Yakuza 4 and so many other good games this Q1 year...

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Joelcool7
Joelcool7 (on 27 February 2010)

Wow Nintendo's loosing market share but still managing to sell more hardware year on year. Thats amazing even if it is just 1%. Nintendo continues to sell way more hardware then either Sony or Microsoft. Microsoft must be shaking in their boots loosing market share that quickly to Sony. Dropping 360 sales must have them hard at work on the 720. I bet we see a new X-Box at this years E3!

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kowenicki
kowenicki (on 27 February 2010)

@jkidlacz I am merely comparing the START of the year.. if I want to compare, both comparisons have merit. On you saying the ps3 is catching the 360... it is... BUT it is actiually 300k further behind than it was when it launched.

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Cooltown
Cooltown (on 26 February 2010)

PS3 doing well, keep in mind even through this world recession the cheapest PS3 still costs $299 USD.

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jkudlacz
jkudlacz (on 26 February 2010)

@kowenicki Your comment doesn't make much sense, if you are comparing XBOX 360 to PS3 you should compare 2009 XBOX 360 sales to 2010 PS3 sales because those correspond to same amount of time on the market for both consoles. So after 4 years on the market: XBOX 360 sold in 2009 - 1,661,668 PS3 sold in 2010 - 1,994,788 So as you can see PS3 is slowly catching up to XBOX 360 which has been on the market 1 year longer than PS3 and it is tracking ahead of XBOX 360 when it comes to same amount of time on the market.

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kowenicki
kowenicki (on 26 February 2010)

It is... PS3 is having the best start to any year by a HD console.... but credit to the 360 too, its started better in 2010 than the PS3 did in 2009 so far.

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ChrisIsNotSexy
ChrisIsNotSexy (on 26 February 2010)

Indeed.

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italo244
italo244 (on 26 February 2010)

Sony's Playstation 3 doing a good job.

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