Monthly US Sales (July 2006) – All Systems Down

The NPD has released the numbers for July and they’re all lower than they were in June. Although it was obvious sales of the DS would go down (June was launch month for the Lite in North America), every one of the other consoles also had a dip in sales. Well, I guess it’s better to see the numbers first!

NDS = 377,000
PS2 = 241,000
360 = 206,000
GBA = 163,000
PSP = 161,000
GCN = 44,000
XBX = 12,000

For the second month in a row, the Nintendo DS was on top. Obviously, continued sales of the DS Lite are helping. The GBA is also continuing to sell very well. It beat out the PSP by 2,000 units, which is a very small amount. The PSP and GBA have both sold 1.24 million units this year compared to the DS’ 1.75 million. This means that people are finally moving from the GBA to the DS, something they obviously weren’t doing last year. Since the launch of the DS, the GBA has sold 8.78 million units. The DS and PSP have sold 5.56 and 4.88 million respectively since their launches. They have some catching up to do!

The PS2 continues to outsell the Xbox 360. However, that’s the least of Microsoft‘s worries. It was kind of obvious the PS2 would continue to do well, especially when upcoming releases like Final Fantasy XII and Tales of the Abyss show that the system has plenty of kick left. No, they should be worrying that the Xbox 360 has actually sold less than the Xbox did in the same timeframe. For a system that is trying to win first place in the console war, selling worse than a console that was 80 million units behind first place isn’t promising. However, Gears of War and Halo 3 might be turning points so we’ll just have to see! 360 software is doing VERY well with a tie-in ratio of 4.61 games per console!

GCN and Xbox are dead systems. We’ll just leave it at that. Most have moved to Wii and Xbox 360 development. GCN is about 2 or 3 million away from the Xbox worldwide, so I guess Nintendo might be trying to overtake the Xbox eventually, but it might be too little too late.

The NPD has released the numbers for July and they’re all lower than they were in June. Although it was obvious sales of the DS would go down (June was launch month for the Lite in North America), every one of the other consoles also had a dip in sales. Well, I guess it’s better to see the numbers first!

NDS = 377,000
PS2 = 241,000
360 = 206,000
GBA = 163,000
PSP = 161,000
GCN = 44,000
XBX = 12,000

For the second month in a row, the Nintendo DS was on top. Obviously, continued sales of the DS Lite are helping. The GBA is also continuing to sell very well. It beat out the PSP by 2,000 units, which is a very small amount. The PSP and GBA have both sold 1.24 million units this year compared to the DS’ 1.75 million. This means that people are finally moving from the GBA to the DS, something they obviously weren’t doing last year. Since the launch of the DS, the GBA has sold 8.78 million units. The DS and PSP have sold 5.56 and 4.88 million respectively since their launches. They have some catching up to do!

The PS2 continues to outsell the Xbox 360. However, that’s the least of Microsoft‘s worries. It was kind of obvious the PS2 would continue to do well, especially when upcoming releases like Final Fantasy XII and Tales of the Abyss show that the system has plenty of kick left. No, they should be worrying that the Xbox 360 has actually sold less than the Xbox did in the same timeframe. For a system that is trying to win first place in the console war, selling worse than a console that was 80 million units behind first place isn’t promising. However, Gears of War and Halo 3 might be turning points so we’ll just have to see! 360 software is doing VERY well with a tie-in ratio of 4.61 games per console!

GCN and Xbox are dead systems. We’ll just leave it at that. Most have moved to Wii and Xbox 360 development. GCN is about 2 or 3 million away from the Xbox worldwide, so I guess Nintendo might be trying to overtake the Xbox eventually, but it might be too little too late.