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Metallicube on 11 March 2010

Ironically despite 360 performing the best, I think it is MS that in a way needs to worry the most. PS3 and Wii both had shortages while still sticking close to 360 WITHOUT shortages.



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leo-j on 11 March 2010

Guys remember

PS3 AND WII ARE SEVERELY SUPPLY CONSTRAINED



 

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Metallicube on 11 March 2010
letsdance said:
Metallicube said:
Wow 360 beat Wii of all things? Shortages are a bitch.

As I've said before, NINTENDO themselves are the biggest threat to Nintendo's dominance. I guess they were just blindsided by the 3.8 million wave they sold in December, and are still recovering from that.

Luckilly the shortages seem to be dealt with judging by this week's US numbers.


I don't know about if they got it under controll but I know there was a massive shipment last week. My store got 15. I don't know when our next shipment is though.

Yeah I noticed amazon's store has them in stock now too, which is pretty big.



Ulysses on 11 March 2010
psrock said:
With Heavy rain's failure, all we need now is " Move" to fail to.

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 Thats great for Heavy rain, those are only 1 week sales in the u.s so VG actually undertracked it.



psrock on 11 March 2010

One little note.

Heavy Rain = Feb 23rd


that's a very nice couple days.

I expect Battlefield to sell close to a million on the 360 alone next month.



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Hyruken on 11 March 2010

Ok we get there are PS3 shortages, we have heard that for months now.

But how the hell does that make 360 get a bump? Software wise all that was out was Bioshock 2 really?

It makes you think a bit about how the numbers can be so wrong. The 360 just posted its best ever febuary, beating the Wii by 25k. It didn't even do anything but the buzz about it on here reminds me of a morgue or something! It was even up year over year by a massive 33k!

It also makes you think about march's npd. If we accept that the PS3 has the shortages people are mentioning and have mentioned then i don't see how it can possibly be anywhere close to the 360 numbers right now. If 360 just got a bump from nothing in february then i can imagine it being a bump with BC2 and FFXIII, especially with the bundles.

So fair play to MS. Their machine that had its last price cut nearly 2 years ago just posted one of it's best months.
Which i think is further proof that if/when the 360 does actually drop to that official £99 mark with Natal then the numbers will be gigantic.

Also PS3 did well. It was up nearly 100k year over year, that is awesome.



leo-j on 11 March 2010

what's the best alternative to a wii/ps3?



 

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Gilgamesh on 11 March 2010

Wow and the PS3 even has limited supply.

Wii is scary low, PS3 almost beat it.

X360 came out of no where



Twistedpixel on 11 March 2010

PlayStation 2 101.9K = 22% decrease.
PlayStation 3 360.1K = 30% increase
PSP 133.4K =33% decrease
Xbox 360 422.0K =8% increase
Wii 397.9K =47% decrease
Nintendo DS 613.2K =4% increase

vs last year

PlayStation 2 131K
PlayStation 3 276K
PSP 199K
Xbox 360 391K
Wii 753K
Nintendo DS 588K

 

 



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Gilgamesh on 11 March 2010

Top 10 Software:
1. BioShock 2 (Xbox 360) - 562.9K
2. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo Wii) - 555.6K
3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360) - 314.3K
4. Just Dance (Nintendo Wii) - 275.4K
5. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo Wii) - 272.5K
6. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Playstation 3) - 252.8K
7. Mass Effect 2 (Xbox 360) - 246.5K
8. Dante’s Inferno Divine Edition (Playstation 3) - 242.5K
9. Dante’s Inferno (Xbox 360) - 224.7K
10. Heavy Rain (Playstation 3) - 219.3K