Xbox 360 increase sales, Nintendo Wii and Sony PS3 drop
Filed under: Gaming | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: January 12, 2009 | 8 Comments
Microsoft has something to smile about with Japan’s 2008 sales figures for the Xbox 360. It was no surprise to learn that the Nintendo Wii was still king in 2008 despite the fact that the games console saw a 20 percent drop in sales from the previous year. The Wii sold 3.7 million units, seven hundred thousand less than 2007.
The Sony PS3 almost matched their 2007 sales figures; the PlayStation 3 shifted 1.8 million consoles that is one hundred and forty thousand drop or 12 percent. Although the Xbox 360 only sold 1.18 million units in 2008, the 360 actually gained and sold one hundred and sixty thousand more consoles than 2007 that is a 40 percent increase.
Overall sales still show the Nintendo Wii to be King in Japan; it has a 68 percent share in the games console market. The PS3 is number two with 24 percent and the Xbox 360 only has a 7.64 percent share. So the question is, can Nintendo maintain their lead, or can Sony or Microsoft do anything to close the gap in 2009?
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Who wrote this unreadable filth? Take the tags off this as it shows up in Google. XBox 360 has only 7.63% market share and PS3 has 24? Is there an editor in the building?
Wow, PS3 outselling the Xbox for the year despite the massive discounting of the Xbox is pretty amazing. MS has nothing left to do to boost sales, they can’t cut prices again. Xbox is dead.
These are not worldwide figures, they are for Japan.
yh, I was gonna say, its just Japan, but is that so bad? PS3 is the better console.
Misleading title, to say the least. It’s obvious the engineers at Google need to fix their news engine because this “article”, and I use the term loosely, is a complete joke. I’ll go back to reading NeoGaf. Thank you very much.
why do you use the term loosely, it tells you exactly what its meant to tell you. Its xbox, ps3 and wii, if you opened the article and it was about spoons, yes, i’d agree, thats misleading to say the least, but seriously, stop being so nit picky.
Try tighting up you’re figures: the 360 has gained 100k more sales over the year(240k up to 340k) vs a 700k drop (3000k down from 3700k) with the wii and a 140k drop with the PS3 (1040k down from 1180k). In that sense the headline is correct, but it does not reflect that the 360 still only has a tiny percentage of the market in JP.
Keep it simple.
Good, xbox is much better than ps3.