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This is my fault, they evidently released this a while ago.
Wii: 404,000 units
Xbox 360: 277,000 units
PS2: 202,000 units
PS3: 131,000 units
Gee, what a surprise, the Wii won again, outselling the second-place Xbox 360 by 1.46:1. Probably the biggest news this month was that for a change, the Xbox 360 finally outsold the PS2. This should be the norm, by the way.
Percentage of change from July:
Wii: Down about 5%. It will be interesting to see if Metroid Prime 3 has any affect on their sales or not, but that will wait until September, as it wasn't released until August 27th.
Xbox 360: Up about 63%, a very nice change for them. We'll have to wait for September's numbers to see how Halo 3 helped.
PS2: Down about 9%. If there's a better statement about how little the public really cares about the PS3/Xbox 360, I don't know what it is.
PS3: Down about 17%, but that's not surprising, since price cuts tend to be blippy. But it's at least over 100,000.
The big news from last month is that according to the numbers at VG Chartz, the Wii has now sold more consoles than the Xbox 360. That's pretty amazing considering the lead time the 360 had, and unlike the 360, the Wii has been profitable since day one. I'm really running out of silly analogies for the waterfall of money that is in place at Nintendo.
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Just before I went in for shoulder surgery #2 at the end of August, the boyfriend (finally) purchased a television. (We'd hadn't had one before.) While I was under the knife, he found himself in a Target that had a Wii in stock, so he jumped on it. He enjoyed my recovery much more than I did, since he spent the whole time with his Wii. I haven't tried it yet, since swinging things is officially Not A Good Idea just now.
I'd be surprised if we didn't end up owning an Xbox 360, since Grand Theft Auto doesn't seem to be coming to the Wii any time soon. But it does have the exclusive MySims, which I see we own, but I haven't played it yet.
Posted by: Nadyne Mielke | September 30, 2007 11:19 PM
I admit that now that Halo 3 is out, I'm thinking about getting an Xbox 360.
But only thinking. The price will have to hit $300 before I bite. And by then I'll be able to buy a used copy of Halo 3 for cheap. (I noticed in the store it's $60! Woah!)
Posted by: Robert | October 1, 2007 9:10 AM
HALO3 will help some, for sure. I'd be refusing to buy one, but finally broke down for H3 (and, in two months, Assassin's Creed).
Posted by: Brian | October 1, 2007 10:24 AM
So I started hunting round for a Wii in a bricks n mortar store a month or so ago. I didn't want to devote a lot of my life to finding one, so it took a while.
I turned up at Circuit City in San Jose on Sunday morning, 20 min before opening time, as one of those tracker sites said they had stock.
30 people queued up before opening time, and they sold out of everything before I left the store with MP:3 and a couple of accessories.
Posted by: Nigel Kersten | October 1, 2007 1:26 PM
The problem is, how many people like you are there who really WANT Halo 3 and don't already have an Xbox?
Posted by: John C. Welch | October 1, 2007 11:30 PM
Ordinarily, I like seeing the underdog come out on top, and since the only joke Bill Gates ever told was the one about Microsoft being the second-largest software company in Redmond, Washington, I like that continuing to be the case. BUT...if either the xBox or PS3 had achieved the popularity they were supposed to, the format war would have been resolved in Favor of Blu-Ray by now and that evil abortion HD-DVD would have found its deserved place in the dustbin of history. Instead, it's going to accomplish exactly what RCA's Capacitive Video Disc did: Fail, and ensure the failure of the Laserdisc as well.
Posted by: Arvid | October 2, 2007 6:25 PM
