http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21967

And well deserved too. Can't believe Sony's number (not share) didn't drop with the rubbish Q4 line-up...

Microsoft's number is almost flat (dropped slightly) Yoy, which is also interesting considering they had a price drop.

All in all, huge numbers for the whole industry, it wasn't that long ago when the complete VG numbers were

I don't like market share calculated by revenue. When a company cuts the price of their console they will actually lose market share even if sales increase a lot.

Let's see market share by PROFIT or UNITS SOLD. Revenue is heavily Sony- and Microsoft- biased because their games and systems cost more.

Rather than revenue lets see profit.


I would expect it to be 90% nintendo 10% microsoft with Sony excluded.

nintendo alrdy did a profit growth pct in 2008.  It was nintendo 99% with the remaining 1% split between others.

Needs profits.
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Actually that was revenue.... in fact it is pretty much the same data as this chart.... which means Sony and MS were indeed pretty much flat between them.

Oh, and you can't make a pie chart showing profits because profits can be negative, and pie charts can't show negative because they have to add up to the whole.

A profit chart would have to be a different type of chart.

In addition to that, we can't get a profit chart to compare to this (in the OP) data because it is showing revenue spent on the systems..... which means Nintendo's $10billion is made up of the money spent on people buying:

The Wii
The DS
Wii+DS games and peripherals.... it combines the revenue of 1st and third party, and thus would be immensely complicated to figure out the profits from it, if not impossible for things like multiplatform games (like how do you split the expense when it cost developers less to port a game that it would have with two built form ground up)

Neither profit or revenue have to do with market share.

That being said all you have to do is look at the front page for sales based figures.