Here's this month's console sales by week, hot off the VG Chartz presses! As is standard now, it's only available in Excel spreadsheet format now since converting it to plain text takes way too long at this point.
http://www.skyrender.net/2008_console_sales.zip
Ups and Downs: What's Been Updated
The numbers have had quite a few adjustments for past months this time around, thanks to new data coming in from 2007 fiscal year reports. The Wii, DS, and PSP all had considerable gains, while 360 and PS3 more or less stayed even.
Measuring Up: What's Changed This Month
This was another odd month with 5 weeks, so let's get straight to the numbers: in raw sales, all systems save the PS3 were up (though with 1 extra week available, that's not surprising). For relative sales, however, only 360 and PSP showed marked improvement hardware-wise, and only DS showed any true improvement software-wise. The summer months are, interestingly enough, slow times for console sales (though not as slow as February and March usually are).
Looking Ahead: What (Might Be) Coming Next
As usual, there's a new set of projections based off of this month's data. Projections are estimates for end-of-year sales lows and highs based off of 2007 data for equivalent months.
System / Low / High
Wii / 25,498,875 / 33,735,802
PS3 / 12,874,592 / 17,033,485
X360 / 9,652,913 / 12,771,103
DS / 32,319,922 / 42,760,260
PSP / 15,734,161 / 20,816,783
System / Cum. Low / Cum. High / M.Share Low / M.Share High
Wii / 44,716,843 / 52,953,770 / 45.06% / 52.85%
PS3 / 21,747,961 / 25,906,854 / 21.05% / 26.95%
X360 / 25,499,313 / 28,617,503 / 24.43% / 30.10%
DS / 95,955,022 / 106,395,360 / 65.38% / 69.94%
PSP / 45,724,293 / 50,806,915 / 30.06% / 34.62%
That's all for this month!
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