Hi

i'm sorry if I can find this somewhere on the site but havn't find them.

I will like to know how much games (not a specific game, all the games) has been sold by each consoles (ps3,xbox360,wii,ds,psp). By region if available

Feel free to move my topics if I posted in the wrong place

Wii 278,801,383 5.81
360 228,565,648 7.85
DS 396,469,403 3.98
PS3 124,471,690 5.93
First number's are all software sold, second is the attach ratio.

thank you very much for your quick reply !

WoW, where that number come from ? I expected lower ratio (this is the # of games/# of consoles, right ?) for 360 and bigger for DS !

At least, I learned something today

Those are the VGC numbers that combine the totals of Americas, Japan and "Others" sales (click on the weekly charts and scroll down to the tables just above the comments section)

The problem with them though is that a lot of games are missing, especially from "Others", but also a number from Americas, and Japan is pretty accurate but will still be missing some old games.

I can however give you the shipment figures for Wii, DS and PS3 (and a not quite correct one for the PSP... but I will give a vague estimate of what it is actually)

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This is from launch to the end of December 2008.

The PSP figure unfortunately includes some units twice because I am mixing two different reporting methods.... in addition, I have been told before that these include UMD movie discs, which although are probably not significant, they do take away some of the sales. A rough estimate for PSP total software then would be about 180,000,000. (giving an attach ratio of around 4

Microsoft doesn't give out software shipment data unfortunately, but it has given snippets of what the NPD attach ratio is... so the sold games attach ratio in the USA is around 8.1..... but it is worth noting that the attach ratio Worldwide will be lower, but also that generally the sold games ratio will be lower than comparing shipments.... so the WW attach ratio for X360 in shipment terms is probably between 8 and 9 games per system.

i wonder what the ps2 numbers are

Again, it is impossible to tell for the same reason as I said for the PSP.... but it is roughly 1.4-1.5 billion games... and an attach ratio of around 11.

So PS2 - 1,450,000,000

If you look at it from launch... the PS2 software shipments were 308,000,000 at about the same point in life as the Wii is now... except that is giving the PS2 a 7 month advantage in Japan and 1 month advantage for America.... and it is a production shipment figure rather than sales to retail, so if we were trying to put Wii and PS2 on equal terms it will be more like 290,000,000 (roughly) for PS2... compared to 312,000,000 for Wii.

And the hardware figures by the same method as above are 49,600,000 ... though taking away the 7 month Japan advantage and 1 month Americas takes it down to about 45,000,000, compared to 44,600,000 for Wii.