Black Friday's Console Sales
Posted by Brian Vaughn at 11/30/2007 1:38 PM 
Categories: Sony, Xbox 360, PS3, NPD, Microsoft, Gaming, Nintendo, Halo 3, Wii
Categories: Sony, Xbox 360, PS3, NPD, Microsoft, Gaming, Nintendo, Halo 3, Wii
Well Microsoft finally announced their week of Black Fridays sales in
the US so we can now sit around and over analyze these numbers. First
here is what the numbers are:
Nintendo Wii: 350,000
Xbox 360: 310,000
Sony PS3: 245% over last year
These are all very impressive numbers that will make any fanboy happy. The Wii had an excellent week selling 2/3 of last months total in one week. I still think Nintendo will sell over one million Wiis in the US in November. Nintendo seems to be getting more units to market as they can now manufacture 1.8 million Wiis a month.
The Xbox 360 sales are also very good as well almost selling more units in this one week as it did all of last month. Microsoft should have no problems selling the 700,000 units I thought they would in November. It is reported that the Xbox 360 Arcade has done extremely well, selling beyond expectations.
Sony released their sales data first and chose to not provide a concrete number but instead chose to release the percentage of growth they did over last year. They have said the PS3 is selling 300% better this month after the 40GB PS3 has been released. That should mean the PS3 is selling about 90,000 per week but the week of Black Friday sales tend to do better than the weekly average. I'm guessing the PS3 did somewhere around 200,000 to 250,000 units sold over the Holiday.
Those are good numbers for the PS3 but are dwarfed by the Xbox 360 and Wii numbers. That is why the press release only spoke of percentages. I still think the PS3 will sell around 400,000 in November. The price cut and the holiday season should justify that size of an increase over last month.
www.joystiq.com/2007/11/28/nintendo-enjoys-its-biggest-sales-week-ever/
href="http://kotaku.com/gaming/statistical-shenanigans/sony-ps3-sales-up-nearly-300-percent-326658.php" target="_blank">http://kotaku.com/gaming/statistical-shenanigans/sony-ps3-sales-up-nearly-300-percent-326658.php
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8148&Itemid=2
Nintendo Wii: 350,000
Xbox 360: 310,000
Sony PS3: 245% over last year
These are all very impressive numbers that will make any fanboy happy. The Wii had an excellent week selling 2/3 of last months total in one week. I still think Nintendo will sell over one million Wiis in the US in November. Nintendo seems to be getting more units to market as they can now manufacture 1.8 million Wiis a month.
The Xbox 360 sales are also very good as well almost selling more units in this one week as it did all of last month. Microsoft should have no problems selling the 700,000 units I thought they would in November. It is reported that the Xbox 360 Arcade has done extremely well, selling beyond expectations.
Sony released their sales data first and chose to not provide a concrete number but instead chose to release the percentage of growth they did over last year. They have said the PS3 is selling 300% better this month after the 40GB PS3 has been released. That should mean the PS3 is selling about 90,000 per week but the week of Black Friday sales tend to do better than the weekly average. I'm guessing the PS3 did somewhere around 200,000 to 250,000 units sold over the Holiday.
Those are good numbers for the PS3 but are dwarfed by the Xbox 360 and Wii numbers. That is why the press release only spoke of percentages. I still think the PS3 will sell around 400,000 in November. The price cut and the holiday season should justify that size of an increase over last month.
www.joystiq.com/2007/11
http://www.next-gen.biz/index
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