Year end results for Nintendo & Sony shipments/financials + yearly shipment projections come out in ~three days from now (Thursday morning Japan time). Q4 shipments for Nintendo and Sony will be available (covering Jan 1 to March 31) alongside the year-end summaries.
Microsoft's year ends June 30, but it should provide a shipment update as well.
Personally, I'm curious to see some info about Wii Fit/GTAIV/Mario Kart expectations from the big three.
The one to watch is definitely shipment projections though. I'd be shocked if PS3/Wii shipments were projected to be under 10 million/20 million for the next fiscal year. DS & PSP shipments are going to be fascinating as well. I think we could see PSP peak this year while DS declines a bit, so instead of 30 million vs. 11 million like last year in sell through it could be ~25 million shipped vs. 13 million shipped which would certainly bode well for both companies.
I'm expecting Wii to be projected at 25 million and PS3 to be projected at 12 million. Microsoft doesn't have the same 'year' for its results, but over April 1 2008 - March 31 2009 I think they can probably ship ~10.5 million Xbox 360s.
PS2 is going to be interesting as well. Should continue to decline...but it may be more rapid than some are expecting. I think Sony has been stuffing the channel for one last price cut and to clear out their inventory as PS3/PSP ramp up to their peak sales. PSP/PS3 are probably going to be pretty profitable soon individually, so there won't be a financial need to use PS2 as a crutch to keep moving forward...
Should be interesting.
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