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Shared on Fri, 09/14/2007 - 12:05

It's lunch, I'm bored - onto the news.

Again from Fanboy :  

Here it is kiddies. Mark your calendars, write it down in your diaries: the Xbox 360 has finally managed to outsell the Playstation 2. The August NPD numbers are in, and things are really getting interesting. Spurred on no doubt by the recent price cut, the Xbox 360 sold 276,700 units during the month of August, handily beating the Playstation 2 with 202,000 units. The Xbox 360 saw just over a 100,000 unit increase over last month, which is sure to have the folks in Redmond smiling. Something else for Microsoft to smile about -- albeit more devilishly -- is that th Playstation 3 saw its sales dip to 130,000. Still, the Wii remains on top with a staggering 403,600 units sold. Meanwhile, the DS again garnered second place with 383,300 units sold. The entire breakdown looks a little something ... a-like-a this:

Nintendo Wii: 403.6K (4 million total)
Nintendo DS: 383.3K (12.7 million total)
Microsoft Xbox 360: 276.7K (6.3 million)
Sony PlayStation 2: 202K (39.1 million total)
Sony PSP: 151.2K (8.3 million total)
Sony PlayStation 3: 130.6K (1.75 million total)

The Xbox 360 also had the number one selling game, Madden NFL 08 with 896.600 units. BioShock landed in the number three spot with 490,900 units sold.

Even more fuel for my Halo3-won't-make-$200 million on day 1 is the fact that only 6.3M 360 consoles have been sold (presumably, these are US only totals since we all know the PS2 is well in excess of 100M worldwide). 

6.3M consoles are not going to buy 3.3M copies of any one game on day one.  I just don't see it.

Nintendo is taking over the world, but does anyone care?

Comments

TDrag27's picture
Submitted by TDrag27 on Fri, 09/14/2007 - 12:21
You're assuming that everyone is buying the standard edition in your calculation...If you change your price to the average price of 86.67 based on the Legendary at 130, limited at 70, and standard at 60 - They need to sell about 2.3 million (assuming a third of people purchase each type)
anotherJay's picture
Submitted by anotherJay on Fri, 09/14/2007 - 12:33
A couple of quotes from the original article (in your previous post) to consider: "is predicting that Halo 3 will make upwards of $200 million rather quickly." "And even though Sebastian doesn't state a time frame for his Halo 3 $200 million in sales, we're guessing he's directly comparing his estimate to Halo 2's $125 million first day sales record. " So, the analyst is not saying $200 million on day one, just "quickly", which is a rather vague timeframe. But not being a "day one" sales figure means you can take into account worldwide console sales as well, not just North America.
Big0ne's picture
Submitted by Big0ne on Fri, 09/14/2007 - 12:47
Also, does it take into account the numerous copies GameFly and Blockbuster will purchase? I suppose those might be factored into the pre-order figure though.
JRock3x8's picture
Submitted by JRock3x8 on Fri, 09/14/2007 - 13:15
T Drag, u are assuming that there are equal quantities of all three sku's when in fact it's going to be more like 95% $60 SKU.
dkhodz's picture
Submitted by dkhodz on Fri, 09/14/2007 - 13:20
Now YOU're the one assuming things, JRo!!!
JRock3x8's picture
Submitted by JRock3x8 on Fri, 09/14/2007 - 13:41
oh for god's sake i will go look up the official limited edition numbers...geez :)
Lbsutke's picture
Submitted by Lbsutke on Fri, 09/14/2007 - 12:15
uh...you do know that there are over 1,000,000 pre-orders of H3 right..and that figure is almost 2 weeks old.. But I do see your point 200 million is rather lofty, but if any game has a chance to make it, H3 is the one.

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