Nintendo Accounts for 58% of March Console Sales
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Wii, DSi, Xbox, PS3, PS2 | Themes: Digital Entertainment
Another month rolls along while Nintendo rakes it in.
Another month rolls along while Nintendo rakes it in.
Nintendo tops the hardware charts again with 601,000 Wii consoles and 563,000 DS Lites sold, according to retail sales data collected by the NPD Group.
The Xbox 360 sold 330,000 units, making it the only console to post higher number this month than the same time last year.
Sony’s systems made up the bottom half of the list with the PlayStation 3 selling 218,000, the PSP at 168,000, and the undying PS2 at 112,000.
"If there was one area that surprised me this month, it was hardware sales," said NPD analyst Anita Frazier said. "While it's not unusual for March hardware sales to be lower than February, I thought we'd see higher unit sales on most platforms. The Xbox 360 was the only platform to achieve a year-over-year unit sales increase."
The sales numbers for April could shift a little due to theprice drop of the PS2 down to $99 and the introduction of the Nintendo DSi, which might steal away from the DS Lite’s numbers.
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Mhm, Nintendo rolls on, as expected.
Why is this surprising at all? I think this is obvious.
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Yet Wii third party software sales sucked big time as always
Just bought an DSi and boy it took me back and I mean way back... Buying game from ebay = mostly fake/won't work on DSi (beware HK seller)!
It's kind of surprising for a few reasons. Wasn't there a story that the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan in March? If that's the case, the PS3 must not be selling anywhere else, since Japan has a very big economy. I'm also shocked people still buy the X-Box 360. It's got to be the most unreliable piece of electronics sold in the last 30 years, and somehow, people like up like rats to the feeder and buy it. How has Microsoft managed to sell this product despite the serious unreliability? I can't image even price would make up for it, so the general public must not be aware. Nothing else makes sense to me.
I still say Nintendo sucks for keeping the prices so damned high on the Wii, they've said it themselves, no? They don't have to charge so much for it, they just... Do it. Because they know it's popular with no real competition. (Yeah, i know, other consoles can be cheaper, but they're not a Wii.)
I don't think I'll ever buy a Wii, unless they come up with another Zelda before the end of the Wii's life(I bought Twilight princess for the Gamecube).
The fact that they are unwilling to lower the price is one of the biggest reasons for my decision to pass on the hardware.
Nintendo is making a boat load of money off each Wii they sell. Why would they lower the price? They won't lower it until the competition is beating them in hardware sells on a consistent basis.
It's kind of surprising for a few reasons. Wasn't there a story that the PS3
outsold the Wii in Japan in March? If that's the case, the PS3 must not be selling anywhere else, since Japan has a very big economy. I'm also shocked people still buy the X-Box 360. It's got to be the most unreliable piece of electronics sold in the last 30 years, and somehow, people like up like rats to the feeder and buy it. How has Microsoft managed to sell this product despite the serious unreliability? I can't image even price would make up for it, so the general public must not be aware. Nothing else makes sense to me.
reliability issues in the 360 are gone wiothte h jasper board i think that explains the current increase. i would nto call the 360 the most unreliable peice of ahrdware ever , i know plenty friends that still have thier first year 360's running perfect and great, in fact i have yet to meet some one in person that has even seen one system RRoD on them. yes the general public is mostly unaware BECUASE for teh most part their 360'shave been reliable. the only reason any one ever heard of the hardware issues with the 360 is becuase of the fast pace of information on the internet. ANY time ther is mass production of ANY product there willbe failed product where MS 's problem is is not int eh product it';s self but more to the point their Quality Assurance deartment letting bad units ship. so for the msot part the machine IS reliable , its jsut MS's QA is not. youa ctually look at sony's defective decks count formthgeir factory and i bet you wil get aclose ratio ,some for nintendo the diference is ALL in the QA.
so dont let fanboyism and a small number of RRoD's (compared to working units ) sway yoru judgment of a piece of hardware. besides withte h jasper MB out the RRoD is most certainly athign of the past my jasper based arcade 360 is on ly one 1th the ehat out put of my friends older 360 ,after each system has ran for an hour. so now more than the ever the hardware is DEFINITELY NOT unreliable.
err... are your fingers broken, sir?
not surprised
Well actually the suprising is the wii sales are down from a year ago this time, while the 360 are up. That is somewhat unexpected. PS3 down from last march isn't suprising, Sony is working hard on not selling ps3's for some reason.
Wow so they beat out VSmile? I'm assuming that's in their biggest competition since they're NOT A CONSOLE. Not in my eyes.
*sigh* another failure month for Sony and they still won't lower prices. Soon you will see numbers like 500,000 Wii sales, 200,000 360 sales and 16 PS3 sales this month. Sony just needs to drop the Playstation all together. What's the PS4's price point going to be...$1000? "but it has the new turquoise-ray!!! and we put an air-freshener in the fan so you get fresh pine scent when you play." I would rather purchase an old Atari 2600 than give Sony a single dime right now.
I think the change in the fortunes of the different console manufacturers has proven that Microsoft's strategy was the best of the three. The XBOX 360 has had continually increasing sales of both hardware and software while the Wii is now in decline and the PS3 is still too expensive. Everyone who points to wireless and Blu-Ray being the reason the PS3 is more expensive and "better" need to realize that not everyone uses wireless (it sucks in most homes with actual copper pipes and copper electrical wires, they kinda build a Faraday Cage between the rooms that sucks the life out of wireless) and many people rather watch movies over the Internet or via DVD than from Blu-Ray (which has yet to make a compelling argument to consumers of any cost-benefit advantage over DVD).
DemonHorde665, PLEASE learn to spell! I get a headache trying to make sense of your posts. Are you 3?
SCOREBOARD NINENDO LOL.
And the PS2 sold over 100,000 units as well. LOL yeah, baby!
SCOREBOARD NINTENDO LOL.
And the PS2 sold over 100,000 units as well. LOL yeah, baby!
err... are your fingers broken, sir?
lol.. I posed pretty much this same comment to the same user on another story. Almost gives you a headache trying to decipher what he's talking about.