Console Sales Plunge. WHY?

[Oyvoyvoyv]

It's logical to blame the economy, but take a closer look.

 

Hardware bought in 4 weeks September 2008 (revenue is found by U.S price timed by 1.4 to calculate for Euro vs dollar):

Wii: 1145K - 400M dollars

Ps3: 486K - 238M dollars

X360: 647K - 181M dollars

PsP: 600K - 143M dollars

DS: 1586K - 288M dollars

Ps2: 337K - 47M dollars

Total: 4801K - 1.297B dollars

 

Last 4 weeks of August:

Wii: 1155K - 404M

Ps3: 576K - 282M

X360: 448K - 125M

PsP: 780K - 186M

DS: 1825K - 332M

Ps2: 397K - 55M

 

Total: 5181K - 1.384B dollars

 

So it's less than 10% down month over month for hardware.

What you could have done, is that by looking at those, the last week only shows Others data. Maybe that is where you mixed up.

(And holy crap, people spend almost 4B dollars each quarter, out of christmas, on hardware alone?)

 

Now, Software

 

September (same 4 weeks):

Wii: 5.2M - 328M

Ps3: 3.2M - 268.8M

X360: 4.6M - 386.4M

PsP: 1.0M - 42M

DS: 7.1M - 298M

Total: 21.1M - 1.323B

 

August:

Wii: 5.8M - 365M

Ps3: 2.9M - 244M

X360:  3.9M - 328M

PsP: 1.3M - 54.6M

DS: 6.2M - 260.4M

 

Total: 20.1M - 1252B

 

So there was a slightly higher revenue in September for software. And overall, it rules out. The reason revenue is important here, is that it is how much money people spend.