American Softare is Up

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WiiStation360 said:
The PS3 has almost exactly 1/3 the hardware sales in the US as the 360. (3.3M vs 10M) And it sold almost exactly 1/3 the software last week. Shocking, i tell you. Shocking!

I made a post about this a couple weeks ago, but basically all three systems are selling software at ABOUT the same rate as you'd expect them to, worlwide. The 360 has typically been leading American software (as it should), the Wii's been leading worldwide software (as it should), the PS3 has been selling software at about 1/3 the rate of the 360 in America, and a bit over 1/2 the rate worldwide (as it should and, yet again, as it should).

It varies from week to week, but in essence, no system has been selling way more than its share of software on a consistent basis (with a few oddball weeks when a particularly strong piece of software is released, or this week, when Wii had a particuarly large hardware push). The primary dictator of software sales is hardware install base, and it shows.