| mrstickball said: Rol, didn't you also say the Wii would easily beat the Xbox 360's NA sales, and have a counter for the past few months, taking it down when it was deemed vastly impossible? No system has ever, ever, started out with a decent marketshare, and gone on to totally dominate the marketshare %, expect *maybe* the PS1, since it had the Saturn to compete with in the beginning. Not only this, global marketshare for the Wii has been about 40-45% since the beginning of October. Yes, the Wii might have more supply next year, but why do you just assume the PS3 and X360 will roll over, and never have anything to compete next year? You do realize the Wii has a very weak Western lineup (from what I've seen) for 08, don't you? The X360/PS3 have Fallout, Army of Two, GTAIV, Silent Hill 5, RE5, and about 30 other mid-sized games that aren't coming out on the Wii, not to mention other exclusives (but the Wii games cancell that out). So with huge multi-plat games like GTAIV, with the Wii having absolutely no comparible 3rd party game, why is the Wii going to suddenly increase it's marketshare? If games matter, then the Wii will see decreased marketshare vs. a more competitive field with reduced price X360s and PS3s next year vs. a Wii that's seen the bulk of it's cards on the table by mid-08 (atleast for the rest of the year). |
As always, absolutes that are supposed to defend the PS3 and XBox 360 end up being wrong ...
For the first 12 months that they were on the market, the Nintendo DS sold (roughly) 8 Million units as compared to (roughly) 5 Million units for the PSP; this works out to a 60%-40% split in favour of the Nintendo DS. Currently the Nintendo DS holds 68% and their sales for 2007 are:
VGChartz Hardware data for the period 31st Dec 2006 to 02nd Dec 2007:
| Console | PSP | DS |
Total | 8,998,487 | 23,445,466 |
Which demonstrates that the DS is capturing 72% of the marketshare in 2007 (so far); when you look at holiday sales alone:
VGChartz Hardware data for the period 04th Nov 2007 to 02nd Dec 2007:
| Console | PSP | DS |
Total | 1,340,961 | 4,022,026 |
The Nintendo DS is taking (roughly) 75% of the market ...
The Nintendo DS is going from a reasonably balanced 60-40 split to the dominant 75-25 split, while everyone claimed that the extra processing power and media functionality of the PSP would make it more popular later in its life.
