This is worse than I thought Sony would do for the month. PS3s were widely available in February.
Hardware
Nintendo DS 485,000
Wii 335,000
PlayStation 2 295,000
Xbox 360 228,000
PlayStation Portable 176,000
Game Boy Advance 136,000
PlayStation 3 127,000
GameCube 24,000
Xbox 480
Software
360 CRACKDOWN 427K
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE 371K
NDS DIDDY KONG RACING 262K
WII LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS 130K
PS2 GUITAR HERO 2 W/GUITAR 130K
360 GEARS OF WAR 119K
360 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 2K7 113K
360 LOST PLANET: EXTREME CONDITION 111K
WII WARIOWARE: SMOOTH MOVES 109K
360 NBA STREET HOMECOURT 102k
I was reading that list and thinking, “What’s he on about? The Playstation 3 didn’t do that poorly at all.” Then I looked farther down the list and realized I’d been looking at the Playstation 2.
Yeah, Sony has got to be sweating about now. High PS2 sales keep it from being a total disaster, but it’s still pretty close to being one. The PS2 isn’t going to be able to sustain them forever.
Those software numbers are pretty interesting. The 360 owner obviously spends a lot more per capita then the PS2 owner and there are far fewer 360 games to choose from, but there are ~35 million PS2’s out there. I’d be interested in an estimate of total software revenue for each platform
FYI those are February numbers, January weren’t good either though, but these, hoo boy. Interesting note, it appears 360 US sales for Feb were greater than PS3 worldwide sales.
Sony really is in a tough spot. They came to the race already 5 million or so behind (US), and they are consistently selling less than the 360. A 100k shortfall is kind of a big deal. Wii on the other hand is doing gangbusters, and is jockeying to catch up to the 360. 360 has a monster release list this year and they are better positioned for a price drop, so I don’t see things getting better for PS3 on that front. Wii still appears supply constrained so who knows what that thing could really do.
On the software side, 3rd parties have to be looking really closely at the 360 and the monster sales titles are doing there, I wouldn’t be surprised if Sony loses another exclusive in the next month or so, hopefully DMC4.
I’d like to take you back to E3 2006, and for you short sellers out there, point out that Sony stock is currently less than 5% off of its 52-week high.
Wow, at this pace it will take Nintendo no time flat to torpedo into first place (worldwide of course, they’re already in first place in Japan) with the Wii. He he he. I’m very much enjoying the second time people underestimated the sales success of a Nintendo console. It’s awesome to see Nintendo rewarded for all their guts and hard work on their ultra risky moves lately.
I would be shocked by the fact that the DS sold half a million units in February alone in North America, but then it did more than that in Japan in the same space of time (in a month where it was, uncharacteristically so, completely dominated in attention and hype by the PSP) and its become almost mundane by now.
If you combine all the Nintendo hardware, they sold more than a million units of hardware in February alone.
