After falling to third place in hardware sales for the months of January and February, Microsoft's Xbox 360 inched out the PlayStation 3 to land in their familiar second place spot behind the Nintendo Wii. After dropping 9.3% in sales versus February 2008, the PlayStation 3 ended the month selling 257,000 units against Microsoft's 262,000 units for a small gain of 2.8%.With the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto IV console sales are expected to rise and the data from the next few months should indicate how the market will trend well into the Summer as the Rockstar title gains steam at retail.
- Wii: 721K
289K (40%)- DS: 698K
110.4K (15.8%)- PSP: 297K
53.9K (18.1%)- Xbox 360: 262K
7.4K (2.8%)- PS3: 257K
23.8K (9.3%)- PS2: 216K
135.8K (62.9%)[via Joystiq]
Software sales for the Xbox 360 continue to be strong in the month of March with four of the top ten titles coming from the Microsoft platform. Well behind the success of Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Brawl was Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and EA's Army of Two at second and third respectively while MLB 2K8 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare rounding out the Xbox 360 effort at eigth and ninth.
March Software
1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) - 2.7 million
2. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (Xbox 360) - 752.3K*
3. Army of Two (Xbox 360) - 606.1K
4. Wii Play w/ remote (Wii) - 409.8K
5. God of War: Chains of Olympus (PSP) - 340.5K
6. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP) - 301.6K
7. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) - 264.1K
8. Major League Baseball 2K8 (Xbox 360) - 237.1K
9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) - 237K*
10. Army of Two (PS3) - 224.9K
* - Includes bundles and special editions
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
4-18-2008 @ 12:33PM
xFenixKnightx said...
DAMN STRAIGHT!!!
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4-18-2008 @ 12:37PM
bing said...
@Zebra U spoke to soon....
@Jake piss off
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4-18-2008 @ 12:45PM
ZEBRA NINER said...
HA! I know. :)
4-18-2008 @ 12:40PM
ZenGaijin said...
This won't last July when MGS4 is released there is going to be a massive spike in sales. I figure thats was caused everyone to shy away from a purchase because they can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
I for one don't care because soon I will have all three consoles.
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4-18-2008 @ 12:55PM
SAGExSDX said...
u mean june. mgs4 is june 12
4-18-2008 @ 12:41PM
grigdog said...
Sony's biggest problem with the uptake of the PS3 (imo) is due to the fact that they are still selling the PS2. It was a smart but costly move on Microsoft's part to end support for the original Xbox, but it has paid off. Sony on the otherhand is unwilling to let go of that cash cow, therefore when the uneducated go to the store and compare the price tags for PS3 and PS2, I am guessing most people walk away with the PS2. PS3 sales are just now starting to outpace the PS2 a year and a half after it's release. It's a good thing those bloggers at Sony Defense Force count the combined sales otherwise they wouldn't have had much to brag about.
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4-18-2008 @ 12:50PM
grigdog said...
And you too must be so proud that the PS3 outsold the PS2 for only the second time since November of 2006.
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4-18-2008 @ 12:52PM
grigdog said...
The previous comment was @Jake
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4-18-2008 @ 1:24PM
JAKEJAX said...
Microsoft needs to make a hand held console so I can play my arcade titles or watch movies anywhere.
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4-18-2008 @ 1:35PM
h0mi said...
First off, this should put an end to the "everyone who wants an xbox 360 already owns one" meme.
Second, neither console is selling that well. 250k monthly sales is pretty low when you compare it to the historical levels that the ps2 sold. The biggest reason for that is price. Yes, both consoles have a lot of features and are HD but people are still going to be reluctant to drop >$300 on a console, and the numbers show this. 250k monthly sales is much better than the 180k we saw last year but it's still below the 350k+ we saw the ps2 do a few years ago.
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4-18-2008 @ 1:35PM
kultyper said...
This whole console war is a big cycle. One will always 1 up each other month to month, and sales leads will change often. Remember, all this competition is good for the consumers! I believe we are all lucky to have such a variety of options when it comes to gaming. Anyways, coming from a PS3 fanboy, congrats to the xbox camp!
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4-18-2008 @ 1:53PM
emirabal said...
Uhmm, i read through most of the commenst and some good things were said, but, lets just wait and see, one month does not the winner of a console war make, but sony has some catching up to do wit console sales and just number of games, even arcade titles, what is PS3 at and what is 360 at, i would like to see those numbers as well, dont even care for duplicates between the two, they can get counted, and then originals can get classified diff also.
Put all that together and compare it to each other and im pretty sure 360 is still on top
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4-18-2008 @ 2:17PM
Edwin DeJesus said...
XBOX 360 NEEDS TO LOWER ITS PRICE ALREADY.
They need to make up ground, dude.
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4-18-2008 @ 2:34PM
Trekster_Gamer said...
It seems all I have read lately by sony ps3 fanboys is how the PS3 will dominate the 360 from here on out??
Nothing special was released this month, nor was there anymore price drops, I guess the 360 simply sold more based on it's own merits.
Cheaper, better system
Best games
Best online experience
I will be interesting to see when system sellers come out ala GTA IV, GOW ect ect how much the 360 beats out the only other next gen console the PS3.
Kudos to 360 for it's sales.
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4-18-2008 @ 3:22PM
Vcize said...
It's interesting how badly 360 games are still outselling PS3 games.
There are 17 million 360's out there, and 10 million PS3's right? So that's a ration of 1.7:1. Yet the sales of multiplatform games are way higher than that ratio.
R6V2 on the 360 sold 752k units, while R6V2 on the PS3 didn't even make the list which puts it at under 224k units. That means the 360 version is outselling the PS3 version by a clip of more than 3.35:1 even though the console sales are only 1.7:1.
Likewise with army of two, it was 606k for the 360 and 224k for the PS3 version, again near the 3:1 mark.
Why the disparity? I know that the 360 gets talked up for its high attach rate, but are 360 owners really buying THAT much more software? Or is it just that more people than we think are buying PS3's as blu-ray players? Or is it even that many PS3's are being sold as second consoles to 360 owners that still buy the multi-plat games on the 360?
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4-18-2008 @ 3:25PM
Vcize said...
That should be "ratio", not "ration".
4-19-2008 @ 12:18AM
railven said...
Just like to point out you are using global hardware numbers in comparison to US NPD software sales numbers.
In the US, the hardware ratio is closer to 3:1, in favor of the Xbox360. So the software/hardware ratio is about equal.
I'm just pointing that out, because I'm sure multiplatform games on both system sell with a higher ratio for the PS3 versus the Xbox360 in say Japan (example, Devil May Cry 4, sold I believe it was 21:1, in favor of the PS3.)
4-19-2008 @ 12:42AM
Vcize said...
Ok, that makes more sense then.
4-21-2008 @ 9:43AM
geekinabox said...
I'd speculate that, like my, the PS3 surge was due much to a.) 360 shortages, and b.) people (like me) who rushed out in February to buy a blu-ray player once the format wars were done & over ...
I'll be really curious to see the results over the next 1-2 months to see how GTAIV pushes new console sales. (And, again, to see what kind of bump PS3 gets from MGS in June).
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