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Forums - Sales - When will total sales for WII+360+PS3 surpass DS+PSP?

A_C_E on 02 January 2010
famousringo said:
A_C_E said:
DS and PSP are only about 47 million units ahead. All 3 home consoles are doing great right now and look to do just incredible this year. The DS is the only real contributer to the handheld sales and if you go by the most recent holiday stats then you have yourself a home console victory by almost a million units in one week. The DS may not do as well this year as it did in 2009, same goes for the PSP. If you look at the consoles however you will see that there is major support software wise to contribute to big sales within the first 6 months this year.

My final guess would be 2-3 years but definitely sooner depending on the DS. I think it's a no brainer that home consoles will sell more this gen.

You say "only 47 million ahead," but the handhelds are a moving target. If you look at hardware sales for all of 2009, current-gen consoles only sold around 3.7 million more than handhelds during that period. At that rate, both hardware generations will be long dead before consoles overtake handhelds.

Even if new handheld devices launch next year, the current models will live on. The GBA sold 5.5 milion units in 2006, the year NSMB launched on the DS, and only the year before enjoyed sales 80% as high as its successor.

DS+PSP have already beaten PS2+GC+Xbox, and they're still going strong. I don't think consoles ever will catch the handhelds.

The home console sales are gonna go up this but I don't see handheld sales going up at all this year. I can see the home consoles outselling the handhelds by more than 7 million this year with all three home consoles selling the way they were against the handhelds through september/october. The year after that home console sales will most likely still be on the rise and I'm sure DS won't be selling as well as it is now but hey, you never know.

The reason why the DS/PSP have outsold the GC/PS2/Xbox gen is because PS2 was the only real contributer to the sales that gen, even the PSP has outsold both Xbox/GC combined. The difference this gen is that marketshare is much more evenly split and MUCH more growth is happening since Nintendo came out with the Wii and Sony dropped it's PS3 down to $299. You have the Wii that is tracking better than PS2 was in the same time frame, the Xbox brand is doing better but the PS brand isn't the hottest thing anymore but it doesn't need to be because the Wii has taken that place. It's not gonna be very hard to outsell the handhelds when you have 3 major sales contributers against one.