January 2007vs January 2008 console sales comparison

[Ail]

Renar said:
Why is it that nobody bothers to actually run the numbers???

January 2007 January 2008 Increase
PS3 374321 742374 98.3%

How much did Total Other sell this month -
Console PS3
Total Others

343,131

So w/o including Total Other, the numbers look like this:

January 2007 January 2008 Increase
PS3 374321 399243 <> 98.3% but only 6.7%.

That is, for year-to-year, NA and Japan, PS3 sales went up, but only 6.7%.


But perhaps it was Total Other that boosted up X360 and Wii. So...

Total Other Jan 2008 X360 223,724 Wii 443,993
Total Other Jan 2007 X360 180,327 Wii 212,995

W/o including Total Other, their numbers look like this:

Xbox360 309553 374303 20.9%
Wii 814685 875598 7.5%

X360 climbed up about equally in Total Others as it did in NA. (I think we all realize we can ignore X360 in Japan, which is a good thing, since their sales, hard as it is to believe, were able to go down.)

But the Wii's increase was primary in Total Other, which as you can see from above more than double from last year.

Ail - Good thread topic.

johnsobas - Good logic but show your numbers. Not the same for all 3 w/o Europe. W/o Europe, X360 was the winner in sales increases (in NA, of course.)

Munkeh111 - If PS3 does double for the rest of the year, it will be on the back of European sales. PS3 didn't do that much in the rest of the world the past month. Of course the same could be said about the Wii. But European sales did come thru for it, and NA sales are recovering strongly.

Interesting, I had not tried the comparison without Others but I had tried a Japan only comparison for the PS3 and sales were up 20%, this must mean that US sales of PS3 are actually down compared to last year ( actually not that surprising, it had just been released ).