NPD November 2004
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My bad. I said it was globablly and it's not. Just crunched the numbers in the PDF I mentioned earlier and this is how it looks...
Year-to-date, US only...
Playstation2 - 4,418,000 units - 51.34%
Gamecube - 2,120,000 units - 24.63%
Xbox - 2,068,000 units - 24.03%
Total - 8,606,000 units - 100%
SCEA decided not to include the GBA unit numbers. They would have been 5,740,000 units year-to-date.
Looking more at the press release I see that they never mentioned global numbers or share. Sorry. Still an interesting announcement none-the-less.
I would have thought Nintendo would have made announcement based on these numbers, but they might have thought the announcement on Dec 2 was sufficient. Here's a link to it if you to want to read it...
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/031202/25455_1.html
Tommy McClain
Year-to-date, US only...
Playstation2 - 4,418,000 units - 51.34%
Gamecube - 2,120,000 units - 24.63%
Xbox - 2,068,000 units - 24.03%
Total - 8,606,000 units - 100%
SCEA decided not to include the GBA unit numbers. They would have been 5,740,000 units year-to-date.
Looking more at the press release I see that they never mentioned global numbers or share. Sorry. Still an interesting announcement none-the-less.
I would have thought Nintendo would have made announcement based on these numbers, but they might have thought the announcement on Dec 2 was sufficient. Here's a link to it if you to want to read it...
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/031202/25455_1.html
Tommy McClain
AzBat said:
They did. Here's the link: http://www.planetgamecube.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=7350&STARTPAGE=1
or perhaps they are only considering the numbers on each consle. I.e true crime counts as three tittles . Each one on its own sold less than mario kart .hupfinsgack said:marconelly! said:MKD isn't the best selling game, though. True Crime sold 354,448 on PS2, 198,245 on XBox and 50,435 on GC (= 603128)
On the same report, MK
Either they cannot count or they were talking about GCN here
overclocked
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Teasy it was a joke only, no intention too offend you just soo you know.
marconelly!
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Global numbers are more than 60m worldwide for PS2, and something like 70-75% market share.
overclocked
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That´s impressive, and the thing is it seem´s too sell more now.. OMG
Marconelly, actually you are right and wrong. It's not fair to put it like that as MKDD was only released on one console and the numbers you posted for TC was on all 3 major platforms. So the normal charts that you'll see everywhere (EGM, etc) will show MKDD at the number 1 spot. But yes to TC as well.
marconelly!
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I'm aware of that, but it's all one game that made money for one company, so it makes sense to just add numbers together.
marconelly! said:
Of course MK
D likely made more money for Nintendo anyone, since the "one company" was themselves and they had no cuts to make. Ah ok, I wondered what you were on about
Its definitely selling very strongly, but its not selling more now then it has in the past, not in the U.S anyway:
2002 - Jan to Nov console sales:
Playstation2 - 6,900,000 units - 67.73%
Xbox - 1,970,000 units - 19.34%
Gamecube - 1,318,000 units - 12.94%
2003 - Jan to Nov console sales:
Playstation2 - 4,418,000 units - 51.34%
Gamecube - 2,120,000 units - 24.63%
Xbox - 2,068,000 units - 24.03%
Console growth/decline:
GC + 61%
XBox + 5%
PS2 - 36%
As I said though PS2 is still selling extremely strongly. Its sold slightly more then GC and XBox combined so far this year in the U.S. Which is very impressive indeed.
Well, I can tell you why I just bought myself a PS2 for Christmas. I want to play Xenosaga, ICO and the .hack games. Quite simple, isn't it? I think the PS2 has already reached a critical mass of some sort which makes 3rd party exclusives, and thereby gamers, flock to it. There is little that Sony can do wrong now.Ty said:
In the beginning there was plenty of hype, but at this point there's certainly none for any of the consoles. We're not being bombarded with advertising, promotional ploys, or extravagant claims. (Well, except by gaming companies themselves talking about their games.) It still has more generic visability and is more synonymous with console gaming, which can lend it more value, but I think now it's mainly because have more games, get more of the games, and are wider-spread in that area that makes people feel it's "the one to buy first" if you're going that way at all. I know a number of my brother's contemporaries who'd normally do nothing but make fun of video gaming in general, but got amazingly excited the first time they saw Karaoke Revolution and had to go out and buy PS2's almost immediately. How many totally new console buyers came out of the woodwork with EyeToy?
"Hype" has long since died down. It's been the same market factors and public desires (and heck, whimsy) for years now for PS2, and well over a year for the others.
"Hype" has long since died down. It's been the same market factors and public desires (and heck, whimsy) for years now for PS2, and well over a year for the others.
cthellis42 said:
I agree. Although the "hype" mantra is a convienent explination, I think the combination of the PS2's continued sales at a high price point with the wide availability of competing consoles/options for the consumers just shows that there is substance behind the PS2's sales.