Smeags said: YoY: Console Last Year This Year 272,915 204,477 139,344 157,716 92,974 95,530 104,306 79,807 90,661 60,248 Wii: +18,372 360: +2,556 PS3: -24,499 PSP: -30,413 DS: -68,438

Odd that the X360 is only up 2.6k YoY, I wonder if thats an anomoly or the start of something worrying. Was there a large release last year this week?

PS3 down 25k YoY...Must be price point market saturation imo...

Wii: diong nicely

The best rumours we have say that less than half of Xbox 360 sales are arcades....

The problem is that if the PS3 doesn't get a price cut soon it will have lost too much potential high-definition market to the Xbox 360.  Most of the casual market is already a lost cause thanks to Nintendo.

Great 360 numbers!!!

DS finally reaches 100 Mill.

please about twice the price between ps3 and x360 arcade are already nonsense,
remember it is the profit that are really matters

ps3 sell at lost, but even if 360 are half price, it is sells at profit

so it won't matters if ps3 price is 3 times xbox 360, if there is no profit.

software sales , services (like xbox live) are the source of profit streams.

That can't be right.  i thought the 360 sold at cost. Or very near.

you have to see the big picture here, let we see,

why MS keep upgrading what user get,

newest arcade jasper even include built in  memory, also since last year they bundling with wireless controller / not wired one

this is because MS already made xbox 360 in profit so they can continue give user more values

if MS like sony sold at loss, they will think 10 times, before doing price reduction or adding more values

also remembe MS not the one who have console with pricey bluray, not with wifi , not with blutooth etc

even with improving technology,  if blueray hardware on ps3 keep coming down in cost to sony so do DVD on xbox 360

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And what Sony is doing? Ripping every component they can from PS3 to get the manufacturing price as low as possible. And ninty? Selling their console for profit just like before. I bet ninty will pull "Theres colors for Wii!" card before they lower the price. I just love this gen...

^^Nintendo's gaming business model is far superior to MS and Sony's. Last gen with the smallest market share their generated the most profit (all be it with gameboy's help) while MS lost billions and Sony's profit by no means reflected their massive market share.

Market share don't mean much as we can all see what happened to Sony.
Ask Sony what they would've prefered last gen, more profit or marketshare?

Question: How on earth can a cutting edge x360 arcade cost less to produce than the wii - a console that many consider no more powerful than last gens original xbox?

Yet the wii sells for a handsome profit at twice the price whilst MS price drops are cutting massive chunks out of their revenue.

On the whole the far cheaper xbox360 should be selling far more than the expensive PS3 (at least double). Let's not mention the wii because that is a totally different beast.

Good Numbers!

 If you were going for an impartial take on the scenario then the statement I highlighted just makes you look like a fanboy.  We should mention the Wii in any comparisons and there is no way the 360 should be selling double the amount of the PS3, thats not how demand works mate.