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Forums - Sales Discussion - March Monthly Data (America)

For those saying they want a monthy chart, I added up some numbers:

This is for fiscal March, beginning March 4 and ending April 7.

Week 1:

PlatformHardware Software
Wii 95,043374,048
360 66,316700,686
PS3 38,883197,002
DS 129,049432,971
PSP 49,615226,122

Week 2:

PlatformHardware Software
Wii 91,490 419,363
360 66,825 462,789
PS3 41,507 121,345
DS 125,362 407,075
PSP 49,437 203,308

Week 3:

PlatformHardware Software
Wii 87,937 401,291
360 67,334 368,054
PS3 40,037 170,503
DS 121,676 392,920
PSP 49,259 183,523

Week 4:

PlatformHardware Software
Wii 86,212 356,773
360 64,454 324,638
PS3 36,082 112,785
DS 118,097 394,010
PSP 49,083 174,815

Week 5:

PlatformHardware Software
Wii 84,521 329,489
360 71,740 389,865
PS3 32,180 84,882
DS 114,193 408,556
PSP 53,927 166,730

Total:

PlatformHardware Software
Wii 445,203 1,880,964
360336,6692,246,032
PS3188,689686,517
DS608,377 2,035,532
PSP 251,321 954,498

Pretty close to what I expected, really. I don't think going weekly has affected the accuracy much.



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Well, X360's sales were a little bit better than I expected. It seems that Microsoft and Nintendo are going to fight for the American market for the next months. Sony, at least until a AAA game release, will continue selling not very well with PS3 and PSP.



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 where in the world are u getting these figures?



WiiFit will be 2008 #1 selling game in NORTH AMERICA!  
End of '08 Predictions: Wii - 48m X360 - 25m  PS3 - 19m
Wii monthly NA sales will top 400k every month in '08. *Jan sales ruined it. Grrrr!*
WiiFit will top 1m in sales in its first month of release in North America.
MGS4 will NOT be released in '08. *Darn it!* FF13 will NOT be released in '08.
Rockband Wii will top 600k in first month sales in North America.
WiiFit will pass the PS3 WW sales by Xmas '09.

Ps3,360 seems to high and psp seems right. Wii and DS really depends on supply.



 
revolutions said:

where in the world are u getting these figures?


  from this very site man.



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The numbers seem too high judging from the february data ,even with one more week .In any case we will see in some hours .



Even with my admitted bias, only the Wii and the DS numbers can be considered as just right. Only Nintendo's consoles can legitimately say that they sell out every unit they ship. As for the others, I agree. Seems a bit high, especially for the 360 number.  

 

Nice job, entroper, I did my own calculations to compare it to actual NPD numbers later, but I love your formatting better and for taking the initiative to make a whole thread about it. 



ranzchic said:

Even with my admitted bias, only the Wii and the DS numbers can be considered as just right. Only Nintendo's consoles can legitimately say that they sell out every unit they ship. As for the others, I agree. Seems a bit high, especially for the 360 number.

 

Nice job, entroper, I did my own calculations to compare it to actual NPD numbers later, but I love your formatting better and for taking the initiative to make a whole thread about it.


Thanks.  :)  I usually hate the way the forum uses tables, but it came in handy for this thread.  :)

The 360 numbers might seem high, but remember that GRAW2 launched in the first week of March, and Crackdown launched two weeks before, maybe these moved some additional consoles.  Honestly the sales aren't that much higher than they were in February, only a few thousand more per week.



If you notice..with the Xbox 360 numbers..the frontpage increases are generally between 80,000 and 120,000 per week.  Xbox 360 generally has 60-70% of sales in the USA...so..essentially sales of 60,000 or so in the USA are equal (generally, and theoretically) to 100,000 sales/week worldwide.

 In weeks when 360 sells 80,000 in the USA, I imagine it hits 120k worldwide...while slow USA weeks dip worldwide totals into 80k range.  For holidays, these numbers grow enormously as the USA market for the Xbox brand always has huge spikes in Nov-December, and when Halo is released.



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hardware numbers may be right but the software total numbers are flawed because they only include the top 50.  The individual software totals are ok, but for example for ps2 total software numbers = god of war 2 which is obviously not true.



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