Sales figures from all of the major video game consoles and handhelds are in for the month of September, 2007:
XBOX 360, 527,800
Nintendo Wii, 501,000
Nintendo DS, 495,800
PlayStation Portable, 284,500
PlayStation 2, 215,000
PlayStation 3, 119,400
Game Boy Advance, 75,000
The 360 sold almost 5x the consoles as PS3, and even outsold the Nintendo Wii by over 25,000!
Nintendo products combined also outsold all of the sony video game consoles and handhelds. Sony: 618,900 products sold, Nintendo 1,071,800 products sold.
Sony's PS2 outsold its newest system (ps3). Sony's PSP outsold its newest system (ps3). This doesn't look good for Sony's PS3. Maybe they need to re-work the PS2 again and start making more games for it, and eventually, just dissolve.
What do you get when you mix a movie format (blu-ray) which has a good chance of winning the format war with a video game system almost certainly destined for failure? The Playstation 3!
The PS3 has sold around 4 million units worldwide, while the xbox 360 is at the 11.6 million worldwide sales in September 2007. Also in September 2007, the 360 has outsold both Wii and PS3 game sales combined.
Now before you say "well, duh," about the video game (not hardware) sales, yes, halo 3 was recently released, but here's the catch: that game has last-gen graphics and is mainly a clone of halo 2, and yes, a not-so-great game, with last-gen graphics has beaten sales of PS3 and Wii games combined.. I repeat: a not-so-great game, with last-gen graphics has beaten sales of PS3 and Wii games combined.
The tide seems to be changing for Microsoft's Xbox series. The first Xbox has only had an estimated 24.x million sales worldwide in its life, while the ps2 system had around 118 million sales worldwide, and in our opinion, many of those sales could have been from the same people buying 2 or 3 systems, because of the shoddy quality-control at the Sony warehouse. I'm on my 3rd PS2 system myself and still have my first XBOX system and many of my friends have replaced their PS2s at least twice.
No, the the numbers aren't going to be as low for Sony this time around like they were for MS last time around, but in the next generation of gaming, who knows?