Compare Console Sales After First 6 Months Options

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Compare Console Sales After First 6 Months Posted by XanTium | May 18 23:00 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From infendo.com: [QUOTE] To steal a term coined by Kotaku, I put together the above charticle juxtaposing the first six month console sales of Wii, 360, PS3, PS2, Xbox, and GameCube [US only!]. First, the Wii has sold better than the mighty PS2 after the first six months. Amazingly, both the PS3 and 360 sold worse than the GameCube for the same period (!). [/QUOTE] Full Story: infendo.com

[Big Al]

Does anybody know what price point each console was introduced at? That would be interesting to see also.

Edit. Ok. I found some information

PS2 $300
Xbox $300
GCN $199

I assume everyone knows what the pricing is of the current models.

This post has been edited by Big Al: May 19 2007, 03:55 AM

[proger]

Is it really possible to think Wii is going to sell better than PS2 with such a small time frame of sales. I really don't think it's going to keep selling so well, the novelty is wearing off.

This post has been edited by proger: May 19 2007, 03:47 AM

[FCTE]

I really don't think it's going to keep selling so well, the novelty is wearing off.

Yes it's wearing off so fast that the Wii is still sold out most everywhere.

[Big Al]

It's interesting that the two most expensive units are also the two worst selling.

[dre74]

Is it really possible to think Wii is going to sell better than PS2 with such a small time frame of sales. I really don't think it's going to keep selling so well, the novelty is wearing off.

The dual screens on the ds was once thought as a novelty and look at its success years later.

[XanTium]

apparently it's US sales only. Added that to news item as it's kinda important.

[FCTE]

It's interesting that the two most expensive units are also the two worst selling.

I think that consoles have gotten away from what they are suppose to be, a simple easy cost effective gaming PC. They should get back to that and stop trying to be the center of the universe. Strip out all the bloat and lower the cost.

Also, the gaming industry is driven by marketing stiffs and Wall Street anymore, not gamers trying to build fun and innovative machines and titles.

Both of which is why the Wii, although completely inferior in eye candy, power, and other aspects is outselling everything.

De ja vu, I think we could be headed for another gaming crash of 1984 again, the same rehashed crap games resold over and over just with better graphics.

This post has been edited by FCTE: May 19 2007, 04:15 AM

[Kr0n1k]

One reason the Wii is selling. Price point. Well two. Appeal. "Hardcore" gamers feel that the Wii is a novelty item, but there are 10 times more casual gamers, and they don't play it enough for it to wear off. And the Wii is sold out because Nintendo isn't supplying to meet demand, they are doing the "hype trickle" which was a tactic used effectively by MS themselves.

[epsilon72]

I think that consoles have gotten away from what they are suppose to be, a simple easy cost effective gaming PC. They should get back to that and stop trying to be the center of the universe. Strip out all the bloat and lower the cost.

Also, the gaming industry is driven by marketing stiffs and Wall Street anymore, not gamers trying to build fun and innovative machines and titles.

Both of which is why the Wii, although completely inferior in eye candy, power, and other aspects is outselling everything.

De ja vu, I think we could be headed for another gaming crash of 1984 again, the same rehashed crap games resold over and over just with better graphics.

Hear hear.

You echo my opinions exactly. Back in the NES/SNES days, we didn't have consoles trying to take over your entertainment center. Consoles didn't try to compete with PC's either.

Now, of course, we have the two "do everything" consoles that still retain a semblence of the "console spirit", but for the most part don't even know what they're trying to be (am I a media center? video player? gaming system? video telephone?)

If I want all out performance, I play my PC (because even though it is nearly two years old, it still outperforms both the PS3 and 360, and has much higher quality games like Civ IV and HL2). If I want something simpler, but still fun in a different way, that's when I play a console.

All this crap of media centers, vast marketplaces, video chitchat, cross-console ports, endless sequels (shallow game after shallow game, etc.), endless lies and promises broken (Sony), shoddy hardware (MS), market over-saturation, really looks to me too like the industry is indeed headed for another crash.

If it doesn't crash though, it will head in a direction that I'm totally not interested in. If I don't see change, this is the last round of consoles I'll ever buy - with the exception of the occasional Nintendo console for the big franchises.

[Ufojesus]

Graphs like these don't mean anything if they haven't taken availability into account.

[dark0]

Is it really possible to think Wii is going to sell better than PS2 with such a small time frame of sales.

The first 6 months of either of the consoles sales from the launch date, not the overall period to date.

Graphs like these don't mean anything if they haven't taken availability into account.

The only console that is currently unavailable in most retailers is the Wii, which leads the list of the most sold, so I don't see what availability has to do with it.

[Ufojesus]

The only console that is currently unavailable in most retailers is the Wii, which leads the list of the most sold, so I don't see what availability has to do with it.

Yes, all the others are currently available everywhere, but what does that have to do with this graph that shows sales during the first six months?

[dark0]

Yes, all the others are currently available everywhere, but what does that have to do with this graph that shows sales during the first six months?

Absolutely nothing, that was exactly my point, graph shows sales not the deficit.

[TheIrishLad]

A sixth grader could have made this bar chart.