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mrstickball on 27 October 2007

The Xbox 360 has already, with 10 weeks of holiday left, the Xbox 360 has already outsold last year's entire software sales in the US and Japan??

 2006 USA:

23,215,018

 2007 USA:

25,983,596

2006 Japan:

750,996

 

 

2007 Japan:

797,860

 

It was just something I noticed that no one talked about. Yes, Halo made a huge difference in the sales, but with tons of software still for sale, the X360 could have quite a bit more s/w to sell. I never ever thought about checking the numbers, but their there.

 Anyone else care to comment? It seems like the X360 *could* wind up increasing total S/W sales in both regions by 50-60% by the EOY.



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zackblue on 27 October 2007

No I did not notice, great new for microsoft then.



 

 2008 end of year predictions:

PS3: 22M

360: 25M

wii: 40M

Stevetrop on 27 October 2007

Thats great news. The 360 should make a great amount software sales this christmast season.



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konnichiwa on 27 October 2007

How more X360's sold how more it is possible that they sell more software isn't it?

Sounds very normal to me :s.






sinha on 27 October 2007

Almost 3m in the US and almost 50k in Japan... So going backwards by subtracting weekly sales, what week did 2007 software sales pass 2006 in both US and Japan?



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konnichiwa on 27 October 2007

I guess the US sales passed the 2006 sales when Halo 3 was released on the market.






konnichiwa on 27 October 2007

You should compare them with this:

Global Software Sales 2007, up until September 30th (and lifetime totals)

Nintendo DS - 105,250,000 | 259,480,000
PlayStation 2 - 104,200,000 | 1,309,100,000
Wii - 48,300,000 | 65,810,000
PlayStation Portable - 33,600,000 | 123,900,000
PlayStation 3 - 23,100,000 | 28,400,000
Game Boy Advance - 10,130,000 | 372,630,000

http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=11202






goldenpp72 on 27 October 2007

How does one get an overall amount of software sold to date?



Note: Some games in my collection are no longer owned, but have owned.

cool48 on 27 October 2007

I don't get it...why are the PSP software sales so darn low?



konnichiwa on 27 October 2007

Downloading the games perhaps?