VGChartz Pro

2011 Year on Year Sales and Market Share Update to January 22nd

by Seb Parker, posted on 30 January 2011 / 7,656 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 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.  Also shown is the market share for each of the consoles over the same periods.




"Year to date" sales for 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 sales are shown in series at the top of the table and then just below a comparison of 2011 versus 2009and 2011 versus 2010 is displayed.  This provides an easy-to-view summary of all the data.

Xbox 360 - YOY up this week 54k , up YTD 33.91%

Kinect should help X360 finish January over 30% up YoY. With stock issues reportedly starting to dissipate, 360 should only fall slightly in February.

PS3 - YOY down this week 17k, down YTD -10.42%

PS3 enjoys more small drops YoY, now down below 20k. It should finish January with over 1 million units, only slightly down from 2010, and a massive improvement over 2009.

Wii - YOY down this week 131k, down YTD -30.50%

Wii experiences another hefty drop this week, staying above the 100k mark. Wii should finish January over 500k down YoY; not a good start to the year. Overall it looks to be dropping much faster than PS3 and X360, and should fall behind in overall yearly sales pretty soon.


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7 Comments

Beuli2
Beuli2 (on 31 January 2011)

Also lots of Nintendoom here.

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Beuli2
Beuli2 (on 31 January 2011)

The total number sales for 2010 are a little wrong according to this: http://www.vgchartz.com/yearly.php?date=2009&reg=World&date=2010&console=&maker=

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Faxanadu
Faxanadu (on 31 January 2011)

This looks like a price cut for Wii soon.

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gergroy
gergroy (on 31 January 2011)

the marketshare% are pretty telling on who is being affect most by the increase in sales due to kinect. PS3 is pretty much in line with it's previous years sells, but Wii has decreased drastically while Microsoft has increased. Kinect seems to be syphoning off a big chunk of the wii market it seems.

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Michael-5
Michael-5 (on 31 January 2011)

It's only a matter if time before a successor to the Wii, and I hope it's backward compatible.

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Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh (on 30 January 2011)

Wow Nintendo really dropped the ball on the Wii, just look at the difference in market share over the years.

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postofficebuddy
postofficebuddy (on 30 January 2011)

Wii does seem to be dropping quite steeply. I have to wonder how things will play out during the summer for it. Sales really bottomed out for it around that time last year. Will it fall below even those levels? From now till April the comparisons are going to be pretty unforgiving though. PS3 seems to be doing quite good. It just needs to maintain a minimal YOY loss until the inevitable price cut comes in Summer or Fall and it might even manage to end this year up. 360 needs to build up a massive YOY lead in the first half of the year if it wants to end close to last year. I forgot how good it sold in February last year. That was the month it beat Wii in NPD, right?

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