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Xbox 360 outsells Wii in February U.S. video game figures
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article published on 12 March, 2010
The NPD Group has released their latest industry sales figures for the U.S. gaming industry, and the number were not pretty.
Overall sales fell 15 percent year-over-year to $1.48 billion, a 50 percent higher drop than even top industry analyst Michael Pachter was expecting.
"Honestly, I had expected the industry to perform somewhat better this month," adds NPD analyst Anita Frazier. ... [ read the full article ]
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12. March 2010 @ 13:05 |
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what about the world total sales?
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12. March 2010 @ 13:33 |
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NPD Group only deal with US figures
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12. March 2010 @ 13:47 |
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no matter what its good to see nintendo off the top spot for a change. id rather either sony or xbox have it. both are legitimate next gen consoles
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ikealamp
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12. March 2010 @ 13:49 |
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Does anyone think they should include the iPod Touch in their numbers?
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12. March 2010 @ 15:08 |
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not even a thought of the ipod touch should enter their minds.
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ikealamp
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12. March 2010 @ 16:06 |
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Thanks for the response - and why is that, because it would decimate the DS and PSP in sales numbers? Because Apple doesn't release iPod Touch sales numbers separate from the rest of the iPod line? Or do you simply think that it's not a gaming device?
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12. March 2010 @ 16:19 |
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Originally posted by ikealamp:
Does anyone think they should include the iPod Touch in their numbers?
no
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12. March 2010 @ 16:21 |
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becasue there is gaming, and then "gaming", and personally i think that the itouch (im calling it that for lazy reasons :P - and yet i wrote all of this out to explain that... weird isnt it?) is a personal media player first, and gaming second. and even if most fo the people to gaem on it, most games are not to the cilbre of handheld games. ideally some sort of control system without touch is needed, to compliment the touch system, and then maybe games would be better. heres the thing as to why you can count the sales though, is that MOST (id say 90%) of the people that buy handheld consoles use them for gamign first and then as a PMP second, BUT with the itouch id say its the reverse. where most people will buy it as a PMP and then might game on it later.
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12. March 2010 @ 16:28 |
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Originally posted by ikealamp:
Thanks for the response - and why is that, because it would decimate the DS and PSP in sales numbers? Because Apple doesn't release iPod Touch sales numbers separate from the rest of the iPod line? Or do you simply think that it's not a gaming device?
I would say the latter...
There are enough smart phones/devices more capable than the crApple's iTouch...Why not consider all of them a "gaming console"...
Why aren't PC's in the numbers, I mean, you can pretty much play any PS3/Xbox game on it, not just tetrix and casino poker...
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and all that shaffaaf said:)!
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ikealamp
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12. March 2010 @ 16:34 |
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Fair enough, and a reasonable response. I bought it mainly as a music player, which backs up your point. I also bought it to have a super-portable surfing device, as all of my main sites (slashdot, ars technica and lifehacker mostly) work great on the mobile browser.
There are a few great games (Galcon, Heavy Mach, Fieldrunners, Spy Bot, Flick Fishing - and the ports of Duke Nukem 3D, Wolfenstein 3D and Golden Axe are decent) but there is also a lot of shovelware crap, although I guess that's true for the DS and PSP as well.
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12. March 2010 @ 17:46 |
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Originally posted by shaffaaf:
what about the world total sales?
Estimations have it like this JUST for the month NOT all of 2010 so far (that is below) ~
Nintendo Wii - 1,154,918
PlayStation 3 - 742,358
Xbox 360 - 614,696
The PlayStation 3 has the lead of almost half a million units with 1,837,997 over the 360 with 1,431,991 and this is with a clear/proven shortage for the PS3 as well as the Wii (which is why the 360 managed to outsell it).
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12. March 2010 @ 19:04 |
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And yet oddly every store in my town has the PS3 and Wii stocked every day of every week. Goes to show I live in a backwater town.
Sigh...
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12. March 2010 @ 20:23 |
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We have every console on the shelves at Target and Wal-Mart now last I checked. The Wii had to lose steam at some point. Wow, I capitalized Steam unintentionally. It has no great games at the moment to play cept for like... 1 maybe 2.
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12. March 2010 @ 23:36 |
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Quote:
top industry analyst Michael Patcher
"LOLWUT"
Quote:
Originally posted by shaffaaf:
what about the world total sales?
Estimations have it like this JUST for the month NOT all of 2010 so far (that is below) ~
Nintendo Wii - 1,154,918
PlayStation 3 - 742,358
Xbox 360 - 614,696
The PlayStation 3 has the lead of almost half a million units with 1,837,997 over the 360 with 1,431,991 and this is with a clear/proven shortage for the PS3 as well as the Wii (which is why the 360 managed to outsell it).
Who's estimations are those?
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13. March 2010 @ 00:28 |
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Originally posted by chris4160:
top industry analyst Michael Patcher
"LOLWUT"
I chuckled!
Originally posted by chris4160:
Originally posted by Oner:
Originally posted by shaffaaf:
what about the world total sales?
Estimations have it like this JUST for the month NOT all of 2010 so far (that is below) ~
Nintendo Wii - 1,154,918
PlayStation 3 - 742,358
Xbox 360 - 614,696
The PlayStation 3 has the lead of almost half a million units with 1,837,997 over the 360 with 1,431,991 and this is with a clear/proven shortage for the PS3 as well as the Wii (which is why the 360 managed to outsell it).
Who's estimations are those?
NPD, Media Create, VGChartz, Financial Times, Gamespy + some others. All estimations as clearly noted/described.
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14. March 2010 @ 00:55 |
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Originally posted by Mysttic:
And yet oddly every store in my town has the PS3 and Wii stocked every day of every week. Goes to show I live in a backwater town.
Sigh...
Must be nice. I had to make a 3 hour round trip to find a slim and that store only had one. I called everywhere and most of the online retailers are still back ordered. Sad part is that after I bought the slim I got a junk ps3 to fix my backwards compatible 60 gig unit. So now I have 2 PS3s.
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