The winner for hardware revenue in December is.....Sony

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thetonestarr said:

Linkzmax said:
@thetonestarr
The numbers in the report are from Sony's PR spin after the NPD report, so you would only look at NA sales.

 That's just as much in Nintendo's favour.

 

Again leaving out GCN and GBA and giving the PS3 the costlier price-point, here are the totals for JUST America this time: 

 Nintendo - 690,763,050

 Sony -  642,407,420

 

So, now, instead of a 7.9% lead , Nintendo instead has a 7.5% lead. Hardly a difference worth considering.

We have a couple of possibilities here. The article in the link said it was Sonys revenue, not the revenue in the market (similar diffence that is between shipped and sold figures), which would mean that retail makes more money, per unit sold in average, by selling Nintendo hardware than Sony hardware. The other possibility is, that taxes are count in (since in USA taxes aren't included in the namely price) and hardware sales differed a lot between diffent states. Although i see the first option as a reason, i still wanted to point out that taxes can make some difference.