November Sales: PS3 underships, the DS owns
You’ll get a lot of numbers in this post, but let’s start with the ones that are related to this posts title. Let’s talk about console sales. The numbers below are given by the Research firm, NPD Group.
The little dual screened juggernaut, the DS sold 918,000 units in November, bringing U.S. sales to a total of 8.1 million units. The old and yet still hot PS2 followed as the second-best with 664,000 units sold. It’s sales probably boosted by Square Enix‘s FFXII that sold at 896,000 units and has a sales record of $49 million. Third place for systems is held by the never say die GameBoy Advance with 641,000 units.
Despite Gears of War being number one at the software sales charts having sold a million units and having earned around $61.5 million, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is at fourth this November with 511,000 units sold. However despite being fourth this November, overall the Xbox 360, has a life-to-date US sales number of 3.8 million units.
Despite having it’s launch date mid November, The Wii sold 476,000 units for the month. The PSP follows the Wii, having sold around 412,000 units during November. Hopefully now that MGS: Portable Ops is out, people will enjoy running around to check out WiFi spots. Honestly, that soldier recruitment thing that the new MGS has reminds us of the “old CD collection now has a use” effect that the PS1‘s Monster Rancher generated. So does this mean more PSP sales? We’ll check the post holiday season numbers when the time comes.
So who needs to make shipments? The PS3 sold only 197,000 units this month, this despite Sony’s promise to have 400,000 units available on launch day in the U.S.
Here’s what NPD Analyst Anita Frazier has to say about the numbers: “It’s just such overall good news that bodes very well for the health of this industry.”
Via Next Generation
You’ll get a lot of numbers in this post, but let’s start with the ones that are related to this posts title. Let’s talk about console sales. The numbers below are given by the Research firm, NPD Group.
The little dual screened juggernaut, the DS sold 918,000 units in November, bringing U.S. sales to a total of 8.1 million units. The old and yet still hot PS2 followed as the second-best with 664,000 units sold. It’s sales probably boosted by Square Enix‘s FFXII that sold at 896,000 units and has a sales record of $49 million. Third place for systems is held by the never say die GameBoy Advance with 641,000 units.
Despite Gears of War being number one at the software sales charts having sold a million units and having earned around $61.5 million, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is at fourth this November with 511,000 units sold. However despite being fourth this November, overall the Xbox 360, has a life-to-date US sales number of 3.8 million units.
Despite having it’s launch date mid November, The Wii sold 476,000 units for the month. The PSP follows the Wii, having sold around 412,000 units during November. Hopefully now that MGS: Portable Ops is out, people will enjoy running around to check out WiFi spots. Honestly, that soldier recruitment thing that the new MGS has reminds us of the “old CD collection now has a use” effect that the PS1‘s Monster Rancher generated. So does this mean more PSP sales? We’ll check the post holiday season numbers when the time comes.
So who needs to make shipments? The PS3 sold only 197,000 units this month, this despite Sony’s promise to have 400,000 units available on launch day in the U.S.
Here’s what NPD Analyst Anita Frazier has to say about the numbers: “It’s just such overall good news that bodes very well for the health of this industry.”
Via Next Generation
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