All the platform publishers touted some big sales during November, particularly over the Black Friday thing people get so excited about. Turns out the talk wasn’t just trash -- the latest hardware sales numbers are down YRY, but the publishers as a whole still moved a wicked amount of units during the month according to the latest NPD numbers.
The Nintendo DS took the crown, selling 1.70M units for whatever reason. Nintendo also nabbed the second highest sales of the month with 1.26M Wii units sold. The Xbox 360 and PS3 lagged behind, selling 819.5K and 710.4K respectively while wishing it were the DS, the PSP moved around 293.9K units.
And if that’s not enough numbers for your eye holes, check this: the PS2 sold big again to the tune of 203.1K. Who doesn't own this thing yet?
[via VG247]
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3:00 AM on 12.11.2009
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There is a HUUUUUUUUUGE load of absolutely great games available allready, where-as the PS3 only has LBP and R&C for kids... Plus its more interesting for gamestores as well since they make more profit on secondhand games then on new ones :-)
Oh, it would feature 2 analog sticks, of course.
If your parents haven't got you a DS yet, they don't love you.
If you don't live with your parents, then you must be poor....or you just don't like handhelds.
Me......
I would just get a PS3, but yeah... no BC.
The DS's sales numbers don't make any sense. I'm going to wikipedia, brb. Ok so 115M DSs have been sold, if you include this novemeber. About 140M PS2s. Which is more? Only time will tell.
PS3, even at $300, forces an upgrade some people still aren't willing to make (HDTV) because they see the frivolous purchase for what it is. Oh and game games start at $60 bucks. And no backward compatibility to PS2. PS3, not matter how you slice it, is no PS2, but would be helped greatly if it was.
360s continue to sell because, well, 360s are made to break.
The reason being its a good system, with a crap ton of good game. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out. Wow look at the poor PSP, that's just pathetic!
I mean, if you were buying an HD system this holiday and you didn't already have one, and you had to pick between either the PS3 or the 360, you'd be insane to pick the 360. The PS3 gives you way better bang for your buck. And this is coming from someone who only has a 360.
Because they're mostly just selling to their already existing user base. Not everyone likes FPS's, so that why you never really see that big of a boost in sales, when a big AAA shooter comes out. Just take a look at the Halo games, and GTA 4 as examples. In the months that those games release, the hardware sales only went up slightly!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyeemtS1jII