Japan-based Nikkei has released sales numbers for all three major next gen consoles today. Read the full news item
Worldwide Console Sales Numbers
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Nintendo Wii
9.02 million
Microsoft X360 8.8 million
Sony PS3 3.7 million
Doesn't look right.
MS had "shipped" over 10 million 9 months ago.
Their saying not only did MS not sell the original 9 month old stock, they still have 1.2 million in storage. Which I question considering MS said it doesn't count manufactured or shipped to warehouse, they supposedly count shipped to retail.
I understand they stuffed the channel in order to reach the 10 million mark, but from what I understand, they have been moving units pretty consistantly, if not briskly.
Perhaps Japan has a lot of overstock? I just can't see that much as MS never seemed to have too high a goal there in that region.
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As for Wii, they've been making, shipping and selling every unit they could since launch which was back in November of last year.
Their rate has been a little over a million units per month since spring and prior to Spring, just about a million.
This should put them over the 10 million mark.
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PS3 ... who knows. But after their price cut, they seemed to be moving pretty briskly.
MS had "shipped" over 10 million 9 months ago.
Their saying not only did MS not sell the original 9 month old stock, they still have 1.2 million in storage. Which I question considering MS said it doesn't count manufactured or shipped to warehouse, they supposedly count shipped to retail.
I understand they stuffed the channel in order to reach the 10 million mark, but from what I understand, they have been moving units pretty consistantly, if not briskly.
Perhaps Japan has a lot of overstock? I just can't see that much as MS never seemed to have too high a goal there in that region.
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As for Wii, they've been making, shipping and selling every unit they could since launch which was back in November of last year.
Their rate has been a little over a million units per month since spring and prior to Spring, just about a million.
This should put them over the 10 million mark.
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PS3 ... who knows. But after their price cut, they seemed to be moving pretty briskly.
Doesn´t those numbers look wrong by a million or 2?
I could have sworn i read the 360 had passed the 10 million mark.
Regarding Sony´s concrete 3rd spot
how much did the 2 other consoles sell in the same time span?Regarding Sony´s concrete 3rd spot
Who knows.
According to this report, MS sold none, and Wii sold 9.02m.
I'd like to know how many PS3 have actually been put into service. Not just sold to regular consumers but been bought for research, server racks etc?
Hmm...I dont know what to think.
ioi (vgchartz founder) has always maintained companies like NPD undercount true sales by like 10%? This could be just bearing that out.
MS has currently shipped 11.6 million (well, as of June 31). Just for reference? But who knows how many are "supposed" to be in the channel..I certainly dont know.
I wonder if these sources count places like Australia and the Far East outside Japan? Are they covered by GFK/Enterbrain? That could explain some of the discrepancy?
Just doing some envelope calculations throws the numbers into further doubt. And the end of July 360 was at about 5.9 million in the USA by NPD. So then adding roughly know figures for other countries:
Japan 400k
Canada 400k
Australia 200k
That leaves 1.9 million for the rest, and UK was ~1.3 mil and Germany ~300k last I knew..so this would leave only 300k for the whole rest of Europe and all the minor countries in the world not previously mentioned..
GAF also said the babelfish translation reads like this article only include German sales in Europe. I dont know if that's true, but it's just another quibble.
Anyways, everybody seems to agree they're a bit low.
ioi (vgchartz founder) has always maintained companies like NPD undercount true sales by like 10%? This could be just bearing that out.
MS has currently shipped 11.6 million (well, as of June 31). Just for reference? But who knows how many are "supposed" to be in the channel..I certainly dont know.
I wonder if these sources count places like Australia and the Far East outside Japan? Are they covered by GFK/Enterbrain? That could explain some of the discrepancy?
Just doing some envelope calculations throws the numbers into further doubt. And the end of July 360 was at about 5.9 million in the USA by NPD. So then adding roughly know figures for other countries:
Japan 400k
Canada 400k
Australia 200k
That leaves 1.9 million for the rest, and UK was ~1.3 mil and Germany ~300k last I knew..so this would leave only 300k for the whole rest of Europe and all the minor countries in the world not previously mentioned..
GAF also said the babelfish translation reads like this article only include German sales in Europe. I dont know if that's true, but it's just another quibble.
Anyways, everybody seems to agree they're a bit low.
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This is a good point here.
MS "shipped" over 10 million by last January.
Why would they ship any additional units at all if they still had 1.2 million in inventory?
Unless ... there is some funny business going on with defective units and counting fixed xb360s as additional sold units.
I wouldn't say such an act would be impossible or improbable, but it would be pretty stupid as I'm sure there would be financial ramifications for such action as it would be deceiving investors and possibly the IRS.
Whoever said that is an idiot. It says German based GfK (formerly short for Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung, now Growth for Knowledge), unless that guy wants to explain to me Enterbrain only tracks Chiyoda Tokyo.
I'd never news something based on a Babelfish translation. I've really read it.
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GfK tracks Australia. I'm slightly tilted to believe their numbers more than the compilations put together from several news sources. Mainly because those news sources for the Euro/Australia regions are based on occasional reported GfK numbers and estimated for the unknown numbers. Also Wii hasn't launched yet in any additional minor regions due to they can't meet demand quite yet in the current regions so they should be fully tracked.
Obviously, but they are still way too low based on factors we know to be true.
(such as shipping more units (1.6m) over 6 months, which wouldn't make sense if over 1.2 million units were still in inventory - unsold)
We can also take a pretty good guess that the any of the inventories left from that 1.6M are likely in the smaller regions - MS has gone through those units and getting into newly manufactured units in the US as we can see from the HDMI transition.
I think he might trying to suggest that there has been 1.5 million+ xbox's scrapped due to RRoD.
What about that, then?
It's not like Microsoft would thak units from shops and then send them to customers with broken consoles... Let's be serious.