Q3 2013 Hardware Analysis (VGC Exclusive)

[Michael-5]

 

Platform	Q4 2012 Sales
PS3	0.84 million
3DS	0.52 million
360	0.44 million
PSP	0.21 million
WiiU	0.121 million
PSV	0.119 million
DS	0.009 million

The top 3 systems are a reciprocal of USA's, with PS3 in first and 360 in 3rd. PS3 and 360 saw strong sales in Europe large due to the release of GTAV. In fact GTAV and FIFA 14's release weeks are the only 2 weeks 360 managed to top the 3DS. This game pushed so many consoles, it almost makes the rest of the graph look irrelevant. PSP is doing okay, likely due to sales in other regions outside of Europe (because VGC thinks Europe is the whole world outside North America and Japan)

Platform	Q3 2012 Sales	Q3 2013 Sales	% Difference	Market Share
PS3	0.82 million	0.84 million	+2.9%	59.8%
360	0.51 million	0.44 million	-13.3%	31.6%
Wii	0.26 million	0.12 million	-53.2%	8.6%
WiiU	N/A	0.08 million	N/A	100% - 8th Gen

GTAV was big, that's the jist of the last quarter. If it weren't for GTAV, PS3 would be down YoY and the drop for PS3/360 would be large. You can see that on average PS3/360 were doing about 80% as well as they did in 2012, with PS3 matching itself on the last week of the quarter (The FIFA week). Had there been no GTAV, PS3 probably wouldn't have matched itself on that last week. Not much else to say, prior to the WiiU price cut and Wind Waker bundle WiiU was doing pretty badly, but Q4 has hope. Wii is crashing.

Platform	Q3 2012 Sales	Q3 2013 Sales	% Difference	Market Share
3DS	0.81 million	0.52 million	-35.7%	81.4% - 8th Gen
PSP	0.30 million	0.21 million	-29.1%	95.8%
PSV	0.19 million	0.12 million	-36.2%	18.6% - 8th Gen
DS	0.07 million	0.014 million	-85.9%	4.2%

Hand helds show much the same drop, DS is phasing out, PSP is slowly declining due to being phased out in Europe, but remaining relavent in Latin America. 3DS can't keep up with itself because of the 3DS XL model release in 2012, and PSV is just struggling. Q4 will be interesting with Pokemon, and the 2DS pushing 3DS system sales. I'm not sure what will happen to Vita