Microsoft Corp., the company who is already the largest supplier of software for computers in the world, may claim victory over competing new-generation game consoles in the
U.S., as sales of Xbox 360 have outpaced its rivals – Nintendo Wii and Sony PlayStation 3 combined.
Still, Sony’s PlayStation 2 seems to be ahead of everything, while the dynamics of the PlayStation 3 and Wii sales may be much more remarkable than Microsoft could claim for its game consoles.
NPD Research, an independent market tracking agency, has indicated that back in December there were shipped 1.132 million Xbox 360 game consoles, 604 thousand Nintendo Wii game machines and 490.7 thousand Sony PlayStation 3 much-anticipated game consoles in the USA. Given the shortage of the PlayStation 3, Microsoft’s game console can claim victory over competing systems, as its market share was 51% back last month.
“That’s a significant milestone. There’s an old rule that the first to 10 million [new-generation console sales] has a distinct advantage,” David Hufford, director of Xbox product management, told the Financial Times news-paper on Thursday.
NPD’s market figures are considerably lower compared to those released by companies like Nintendo and Sony, who indicate the amount shipped to their retail and etail partners, while NPD estimates the number of products sold to end-users.
Previous-generation game consoles are still much more than popular due to relatively low price points. For example, Sony Computer Systems America alone sold around 1.4 million of PlayStation 2 game consoles, which is about the same amount of new generation game consoles sold combined.
Video game and hardware sales reached $3.7 billion in December, which is up 28%, NPD’s figures indicate. Moreover, the total U.S. gaming market accounted for $12.5 billion in 2006, a 19% increase year-over-year.
There is no information concerning sales of Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 worldwide, but given a more than a year advantage, Microsoft is more than likely to have sold much higher amount of units globally.
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The headline is incorrect and misleading. Shipping consoles does not put them in consumers hands, therefore Microsoft did not 'sell' 1.132 million consoles.
[Posted by: Bithog | Date: 01/11/07 06:18:33 PM]
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Out sell my @ss. This is stupid, first you got to ask yourself how long have 360 have been in the market and how long have Ps3 and the Nintendo Wii? If you really want to talk about who's out-selling who then you should take a look at the Japanese market! Nintendo Wii really dominated the market over there. Over 1 million 360 sold? That's nothing compare to how many Wii were sold in Japan.
[Posted by: Texas | Date: 01/11/07 08:33:20 PM]
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I think you just read at the headline only not the entire article.Shame on you.
[Posted by: Buri buri | Date: 01/12/07 03:37:22 PM]
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This is no news but a stupid misleading speculation... keep those for you please, we don't need such crap here... there are already too many of these news on non-serious news sites.
[Posted by: tof | Date: 01/11/07 11:25:45 PM]
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duh, its been out over 12 months, give the others some time
[Posted by: cheese | Date: 01/12/07 03:13:19 AM]
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So many idiots here ...
Maybe you should read the whole article instead only the headline. And when you read, read it correctly.
[Posted by: Rza | Date: 01/12/07 07:01:08 PM]
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Texas: Um, learn to read?
The article says that *in December*, MS shipped 1.132 million 360's.
*In the same period*, Wii and PS3 managed a combined million or so.
In other words, the 360 was outselling the two other consoles *in December, where all three were out*
That has nothing to do with the year's head start the 360 has. The article is saying the 360 *still* outsells the two others.
[Posted by: Jalf | Date: 01/12/07 06:00:26 AM]
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XBOX 360 is the only new console to have loads of decent games. Most of Wii games are gimmick that are great for family but zelda is the only real awesome game on the wii.
[Posted by: Some people can\'t except the truth | Date: 01/12/07 03:17:34 PM]
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[Posted by: . | Date: 01/12/07 10:02:49 PM]
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Just wait till next December. You can't call this a Microsoft victory at all. Once Nintendo and Wii has soild stock at the stores Microsoft is going down to 3rd place where its use to. All in all its pretty pitiful actually - MS to date has only sold 4.5 million systems to date and its been out for a year already. And look at how many has been sold in one month for Sony and Nintendo... Gears of War sold 360s...period...860k sold in December.
[Posted by: Po | Date: 01/12/07 10:08:17 PM]
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You cannot find Wii's anywhere. If XBOX 360 outsold the Wii it is due solely to the fact that Wii sold their entire inventory. Lets not confuse stock supply with market demand, please.
[Posted by: Chris | Date: 01/14/07 07:29:55 AM]
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No kidding. I've been trying to buy a Wii since the 2nd week of December and still can't find one. Last week finally had the chance to buy the PS3 but decided not to and wait for atleast one "make you wanna buy a system game" to be released.
[Posted by: Po | Date: 01/14/07 01:52:39 PM]
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Funny, but PS2 [sic] outsold XBox360 in Sweden in December 2006
In all likelyhood due to cheap price and high availability of excellent games
[Posted by: Funny, but PS2 [sic] outsold XBox360 in Sweden | Date: 01/14/07 10:37:27 AM]
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while X360 sold 600 000 on its released November 05 to 1st week January, PS3 sold 1 000 000 in the US so... http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/ps3-launch-outsells-xbox 360-launch-226742.php
[Posted by: Kain | Date: 01/15/07 02:50:35 AM]
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Come on people! This is standard bullshit you expect from analysts and surveys that are in it to make money from Microsoft.
Simply because if they use these favourable surveys in their marketing, the company responsible for the survey gets paid!
Just ignore shit like this...It isn't news.
I find it sad that Xbitlabs is just as gulliable as the rest of the so-called tech-news industry.
[Posted by: 52ed | Date: 01/15/07 11:18:46 PM]
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fuck xbox!!!!! three week after i got my xbox three red lights came on and now i cant even ue it!!
[Posted by: johnny22 | Date: 01/21/07 12:20:26 AM]
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