I would have posted this earlier in the month but I spaced it off... PS3 is being outsold by the older Gameboy model.

Console and Handled Sales April 2007

Nintendo DS - 471k
Wii - 360k
PlayStation 2 - 194k
PSP - 183k
Xbox 360 - 174k
Game Boy Advance - 84k
PlayStation 3 - 82k


Oh and with that April sales total, Wii outpaced the first 6 months of any console ever produced including the almighty PS2.



I know, I know... your thinking wait till FF13 and MGS4 hit. Well it now looks like FF13 isn't hitting until 08 at least and there are rumors of it being ported to the 360 due to those lackluster hardware sales in Japan. As far as MGS4 it probably won't be out this year either. Going through two Christmas seasons without a system selling killer app is going to lock Sony into the 3rd place role for a long time. Compared to the 360 the sales for the first 6 months don't look bad, but the 360 had severe system shortages the first 6 months. We have all seen PS3's collecting dust at Best Buy since after Christmas. All this amounts to more and more developers jumping ship and taking games to other platforms. On the bright side, I heard they are releasing a firmware update to play PS1&2 games in 1080p. That sounds pretty sweet

What is the sales volume in relationship to the price point? ( I have no clue about gaming consoles, but I would think price would have an effect on sales. I am sure there are a lot more Scions on the road than Mercedes.)

Thats one of the big problems with the PS3, they are only the second console to ever launch at a price point of over 500 dollars for a base system. The other one was the Neo Geo, chances are you never heard of it because it didn't exactly take off. There is a definite cut off point for price of a console system, especially when you are going for market penetration. The idea in the industry is always sell your consoles cheap, make money on the games. Sony didn't just put out an overpriced system, they put out out a system with no killer applications (system sellers) to drive sales and now 3rd party developers who were signed on as making games exclusively for the PS3 have since jumped ship and either made thier games multiplatform or pulled them entirely.

Meanwhile Nintendo is hitting whole new markets that gaming has been immune to before...

I have to say... I miss the boat completely on the Wii before it came out.. I was telling everyone who would listen that it was the biggest gimmick ever, and a sure sign that nintendo has completely jumped the shark.....


Good call me.

I'll penetrate your market.

Promise?

These are the most absurd and obviously fake/skewed statistics I've ever seen.

You realize those are statistics based on households that own a Wii, not every person in the US right?

I believe the statistics. Here is why... I found out recently that my 53 year old female boss has a wii and she is hooked on it. She plays on it every night, camped out on th couch with the TV on. She asked me if I wanted to borrow it while I am on leave. Now I am thinking I should have said yes.

Yeah, maybe I just have a different definition of 'regular use' than the study. Do they explain this anywhere?

It was taken from a Nintendo press conference, I'm not sure they made the hard data available that was just an overview they released. I'll see if I can find it.

I'm going to give this statement a 48% chance of being true. 51% when drunk.

I'm gonna throw something out there, and if you don't like it you can give it right back.

I want to be on you.

The point is... Germans love david hasselhoff.. don't get sidetracked by statistics.

I love it when my memory gives me a better than 50% chance of some delicious homosociality.

Can you blame them?

The 3DO was $700 when it came out. (It's sad, but we had one.)

Your right, but it dropped in price really fast and was also licensed to other companies to make various models and they had different price points for the basically same hardware, one of which was 400 if I remember right. I got my 3D0 used so I never payed full price for it.

well they came from www.infendo.com which is a pro Nintendo website

I've seen the PS3s sitting in Best Buy. They're just too expensive. On the flip side, I cant even remember ever seeing a Wii at Best Buy. I know they have them. They just sell out as soon as they come in.

Bottom line is the PS3 is still a game machine, and $500+ is just too much. Then Sony massively screwed up with shortages. Therefore, parents were more likely to buy the cheaper Wii for their kids. Once that happened, parents were more likely to try the thing out and spead the word to their friends (other adults with money). Nintendo had one of the best combinations of technology and marketing strategy I've ever seen.

You can check Neogaf or about 15 other sites and see the same stats, those were verified by 3rd party tracking and reported in several places. Besides Speedz was talking about the usage the Wii is getting from non-typical gamers that Nintendo reported at their latest press conferences.

But you know, I'm saying the PS3 is failing just for giggles...

It's all good, I love mine and that's all I really care about.

I should play more though.

360 on a HD tv definitely helps...mmmmmm

I still say that
the people i know that own a wii all own the same 2 games
Tiger woods and zelda and they play wii sports

there are no good games out for it right now

We'll see on Monday when Mario Party comes out. I'm sure that's going to be another one that everyone will have.

And there is no game on the PS3 that is a must own while the Wii has at least 2 already (Zelda and Wii Sports), hence the point of my original post. Their two big killer apps won't even hit the system for at least another year and by that time they might not even be PS3 exclusives.

It's funny that people knock Wii Sports when it will sell more systems than any game PS3 puts out this year. In Japan Wii Sports isn't packed with the system and it's hitting over a 60% sell through rate, nothing on the PS3 is even pushing 20% in Japan or the US.

My uncle works for Nintendo and I saw him as he came through town the other day (he hasn't had time for any time off since the launch of the system). He said they are now producing more systems faster than they were during launch. I still have not seen one system in any store I have been to except for one in someones hands at a register.

They are still making them as fast as they can and still selling out. It's crazy how many are selling.

Currently I have a PS2.

I finally played the Wii for the 1st time last night.

I want one.

My boys, ages 11 and 13, aren't at all interested in the Wii....neither are any of their friends, from what I hear. They do have the PS3 on the Xmas list, but know that there is a snowball's chance in hell that "Santa" will fork over $700 for it.

Sony’s game unit plans to cut jobs in U.S.

PS3 is killing the competition... or are they?

Sony being sued by a church

This is actually kind of funny, I hope Sony wins that lawsuit.

Sony apologizes to Church of England

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070617/ap_on_...dral_video_game

This is complete crap. Religious buildings deserve no more respect then any other locations where fictional battles take place on a video game.

I wish Sony would tell the church to stick it up their ***.

that's what I would have done