| FishyJoe said: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/12/01/nosplit/dlcon01.xml It's a tough market. The latest figures from VGChartz.com show that, since its release a year ago, more than 14 million Wii consoles have been sold around the world, followed by the Xbox 360 with just over 13 million units sold in two years. The PlayStation 3, which hit the UK in March, has sold just under six million worldwide. But all these figures are dwarfed by Nintendo's big hitter, the handheld DS, which has shifted a staggering 55 million worldwide so far. And Sony's handheld, the PSP, has sold more than 26 million units. |
This is huge. That's one of the biggest newspapers in the UK. Congrats, ioi!
Also from the article:
The PlayStation 3 isn't an inherently bad machine - it's technologically impressive, nicely finished and can play Blu-ray high-definition movies - but given the way in which Sony dominated the games industry with the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 (the latter has sold a staggering 120 million units worldwide), it is proving to be one of the biggest disappointments in the history of gaming.
Ouch!
On the other hand, the guide had mostly good things to say about the Wii, DS and Xbox 360.
