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BKK2 on 26 August 2008
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TWRoO said:

 

Console NPD USA NPD Can Mex est. total N.A VGC end July
Wii 11.40 1.06 0.30 12.76 13.43
PS3 5.10 0.52 0.08 5.70 5.52
X360 10.70 0.87 0.58 12.15 12.12

The Mexican estimate is based on BKKs Jan figures.

PS3 won't have sold much in S.A (officially, as it was only recently released there) so it actually looks close enough, perhaps a little low (say add 60k for the rest of central and South puts it 240k behind)

360 I would have thought has sold a little better in S.A officially, but I am not sure... so with a 200k figure for S.A it means X360 has been undertracked too, by around 230k

Wii is massively popular in central/S.A, but even that probably wouldn't makeup almost 700k... so perhaps 400k overtracked.... and yet Nintendo's fical for the end of June showed 13.11 million shipments to VGCs 12.73 million sales, to me a 380k difference seems large for a place you still struggle to find the consoles.... So IMO NPD has been undertracking the Wii rather than VGC overtracking.

That's not really a good way to estimate Mexican sales from USA sales as the consoles weren't all available for the same period in both countries. It's better to get a percentage by comparing sales for the period each console was available in both countries. I did this previously and applied the percentages through June:

Using NPD & IDG data for the period when each console was available in both USA & Mexico we get:

360:

USA (NPD Feb 06 - Dec 07): 8,307,000
Mexico (IDG Feb 06 - Dec 07): 550,000
Mexico % of USA: 6.6%

Wii:

USA (NPD Nov 06 - Dec 07): 7,417,000
Mexico (IDG Nov 06 - Dec 07): 220,000
Mexico % of USA: 3.0%

PS3:

USA (NPD Aug 07 - Dec 07): 1,635,000
Mexico (IDG Aug 07 - Dec 07): 60,000
Mexico % of USA: 3.7%

Estimated YTD through June 08:

Wii: 100,000
360: 90,000
PS3: 60,000

Estimated LTD through June 08:

360: 650,000
Wii: 310,000
PS3: 120,000

You can apply the above percentages to July NPD for a slighly more up to date estimate.

I don't think PS3 has been officially released in South America yet.