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Forums - Sales - Chart-Track: PS3 outsold 360 for last 15 weeks; Wii outsold both combined

BKK2 on 18 April 2008
TheBigFatJ said:

ioi said:
Wouldn't suprise me if we are a little low on Wii sales in the UK (and Europe in general) - as with America it is a hard system to track with constant supply issues. Up one week, down the next.
So supply is about as bad in Europe as America?


 No.



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TheBigFatJ on 18 April 2008
DKII said:
@TheBigFatJ - Chart-Track is just for UK. Wii is not more than double the PS3 everywhere else in PAL.

We're saving up these types of announcements. We'll look at the results for the financial year and make a sweep of changes all at once, if necessary.

 All right, thanks.

 

Link?  I don't see anything about the wii with a 50%+ market share in Europe.

I misspoke. UK only.  But it looks like the Wii might be getting under-tracked overall in "others/Europe". 



outlawauron on 18 April 2008
TWRoO said:

Well VGC has exactly that, last 15 weeks PS3 outselling the 360.
http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii®1=UK&cons2=PS3®2=UK&cons3=X360®3=UK&start=39362&end=39551

Although the Wii has not been double them combined, so perhaps Wii is undertracked or 360/PS3 are overtracked?

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 05th Jan 2008 to 12th Apr 2008:

ConsoleWiiPS3X360
UK
578,433
376,333
297,163

 


Well, it did double them combined. Wii sales beat both 360 and PS3 sales.



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Neos on 18 April 2008
outlawauron said:
TWRoO said:

Well VGC has exactly that, last 15 weeks PS3 outselling the 360.
http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii®1=UK&cons2=PS3®2=UK&cons3=X360®3=UK&start=39362&end=39551

Although the Wii has not been double them combined, so perhaps Wii is undertracked or 360/PS3 are overtracked?

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 05th Jan 2008 to 12th Apr 2008:

ConsoleWiiPS3X360
UK
578,433
376,333
297,163

 


Well, it did double them combined. Wii sales beat both 360 and PS3 sales.


 dude what the hell are you talking about? 376k + 297k = 673k, 578k does not equal 673. And they said MORE than combined.



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TWRoO on 18 April 2008
jlauro said:
TWRoO said:

Well VGC has exactly that, last 15 weeks PS3 outselling the 360.
http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=UK&cons2=PS3&reg2=UK&cons3=X360&reg3=UK&start=39362&end=39551

Although the Wii has not been double them combined, so perhaps Wii is undertracked or 360/PS3 are overtracked?

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 05th Jan 2008 to 12th Apr 2008:

ConsoleWiiPS3X360
UK
578,433
376,333
297,163

 


If you add 15% to wii and take off 15% from PS3 then wii is more than 2x PS3. No way to say which source is more accurate, but if you assume they are both within 10%...

 


 While I am happy to mistrust NPD sometimes because oftentimes it's numbers don't make sense, Chart-Track and GFK are considerably more trustworthy and track a lot more of the market than NPD does, (I think both are 90%+) so although VGC may be 15% out I doubt Chart Track could be more than 3-4%, after all they only have to estimate for about 10% of the market, which is likely mostly independant stores.

 

@Outlawauron, I think you may have miscalculated.



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koffieboon on 19 April 2008

The article actually states Wii more than doubled PS3 numbers, so that gives a bigger discrepancy between Wii and PS3.

There is some more news about the UK market:

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10048&Itemid=2

UK Enjoys Record-Breaking First Quarter Sales
 
According to sales monitor ChartTrack, the UK videogames industry is celebrating the most lucrative first quarter in its history.
Retailers generated £418.4m across all software, while a total of 17.89m units were sold. Market value jumped by over £100m year-on year, from £317m during Q1 2007, while total unit sales leapt by more than two million.

Sega’s Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games was the top title over the course of the last three months, racking up more than one million sales since its release at the end of 2007, with Activision’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare second and Brain Training third.

MCV has full, in-depth look at the UK market during the first quarter.

 

So Mario&Sonic is above 1M now between the Wii and DS version, but given the DS version hasn't reached platinum status yet at least 700k of those sales are for the Wii version which seems to be destined to reach Diamond status in the UK.