Quarter is complete and this is how things look with VGC numbers in for the whole quarter.. This includes 2 extra days of sales since quarter ended on Thursday.
| Console | Total | Last year | Change | % Change | Retail Channel Jan 1st 2011 | ||
| Wii | 2,614,113 | 4,160,186 | -1,546,073 | -37% | 1,000,000 | ||
| PS3 | 2.828,938 | 3,293,806 | -464,868 | -14% | 1,600,000 | ||
| X360 | 2,486,051 | 2,222,768 | 263,283 | 12% | 500,000 |
So how many were shipped this quarter?
Sony indicated that through March 29th they have shipped at the bottom end 2.1M for the quarter. So it appears that they will have shipped slightly over 2.1M for the quarter (2 extra days of shipping to go). Wouldnt expect much more with the slowing sales in the 2nd quarter. I would expect about another 100K to leave about 1 million in the retail channel. With seeing that Sony/Retailer happy with 1 million in retail channel I expect the following shipments for MS and Nintendo.
Wii shipments of about 2.6M to have 1M left in the channel.
X360 shipments of about 2.8M to have 800K left in the channel (MS doesnt need as many consoles in Japan retail channel)
Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.
