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Forums - Sales - Complete Sales Comparisons, Part 5

Stever89 on 19 January 2008

Part 4

In a CrazzyMan post, he wanted us to only discussing PS3 to PS2 sales, and told us to go make another thread to discuss other sales comparisons, so I decided I'd go ahead and put together a small (ie: LARGE) comparison of the 3 current-gen systems available on the market today.

The next few parts I will compare a little more than a year for each console, in each region, aligned from launch. This 5th part will compare 7th generation sales to 6th generation sales for each console, in NA, aligned from launch. Weekly sales, total sales, and brief comparisons will be given. Links will be given as well. For size purposes, no graphs will actually be shown.

Direct Weekly Sales Comparisons

 

In North America: This should be fun (the number of graphs will be off the charts! lol)
- For simplification, I’m only going to do a few comparisons (we need to be able to do 6 consoles or so on one graph)

360, PS3, Wii Total Sales from Launch (60 weeks)
360, PS3, Wii Weekly Sales from Launch (60 weeks)

PS2, PS3, Wii Total Sales from Launch (60 weeks)
PS2, PS3, Wii Weekly Sales from Launch (60 weeks)

GCN, PS3, 360 Total Sales from Launch (60 weeks)
GCN, PS3, 360 Weekly Sales from Launch (60 weeks)

Total Sales Comparison:
PS2 - 7.15 million
PS3 - 3.54 million
360 - 5.22 million
GameCube - 3.78
Wii - 8.71 million

Conclusions:

- Wii outpaces PS2

- 360 and PS3 start off similarly, but then 360 pulls ahead

- Both 360 and PS3 fall short of GCN first couple of months sales, but then 360 pulls ahead of it, while PS3 follows it closely

- I believe a price cut caused the small boost for the PS3 weekly sales (around week 34), but I am not sure

- Discuss other conclusions

Part 6



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wiiforever on 19 January 2008

informative



darthdevidem01 on 19 January 2008

very good....

Ps3 not doing great here



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

Avinash_Tyagi on 19 January 2008

Only Wii's limited SSupply has allowed the other consoles to even remain close, even strained its still well ahead of the PS2



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

Stever89 on 19 January 2008

If anyone would like a copy of this (which includes graphs), download it here



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Fuzzmosis on 19 January 2008

I'd like to thank Stever for doing this work.
I'd also like to ask him why he made 5 threads instead of 5 posts?



See Ya George.

"He did not die - He passed Away"

At least following a comedians own jokes makes his death easier.

tokilamockingbrd on 19 January 2008

ps3 = gamecube



psn- tokila

add me, the more the merrier.

Stever89 on 19 January 2008
Fuzzmosis said:
I'd like to thank Stever for doing this work.
I'd also like to ask him why he made 5 threads instead of 5 posts?

I thought it would work better, because it took a little bit to put them together, and also it makes them look shorter, compared to going into a thread and seeing practically a full page of stuff.

Edit: You are very much welcome.