Current console sales figures
Keep up to date with the current console sales figures.
These figures get updated regularly so use this page to see who is winning the next gen war. :)
Update: It seems these figures have not been updating for some time, and the site they come from has very old of date figures listed. I've therefore posted official current figures at the bottom of this thread instead.
Feb 2011 Console sales figures
Looking at current console sales, the Wii and 360 markets have been slowing down greatly, and the PS3 is quickly gaining ground. It seems M$ and Nintendo have saturated their markets and have fewer new customers interested.
Analysts are even now saying that Sony will go on to win the current generation console wars!
This quoted from Techspot:
Quote:
Avid gamers are quick to defend their platform of choice, often exchanging heated words over features,
[COLOR=#05408F ! important][COLOR=#05408F ! important]exclusive[/COLOR][/COLOR] titles, and even company policy. In the end, there isn't one platform that's "best" for everyone, but Strategy Analytics believes the PlayStation 3 will
win the console war in terms of lifetime sales.
Despite Nintendo's current lead, the research firm expects Sony to ship 127 million PS3 consoles over the lifetime of the
[COLOR=#05408F ! important][COLOR=#05408F ! important]current [COLOR=#05408F ! important]console [/COLOR][COLOR=#05408F ! important]generation[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR], compared to 103 million Wii systems. "Nintendo has done a great job with the Wii in bringing console games to new audiences," said analyst David Mercer, "but its sales are now falling, particularly in mature markets, and its install base will peak in 2011." In contrast, ownership of both the PS3 and
[COLOR=#05408F ! important][COLOR=#05408F ! important]Xbox[/COLOR][/COLOR] 360 will reach their highest points between 2012 and 2014.
Mercer also noted that this year's global market for consoles is likely to fall again, after a 6% decline last year. Strategy Analytics predicts that 47.5 million consoles will ship worldwide in 2010, a 9% decline. The
[COLOR=#05408F ! important][COLOR=#05408F ! important]Wii[/COLOR][/COLOR] will represent most of that drop, while sales of the PS3 and Xbox 360 are expected to increase.
So on to the current sales figures to date:
- Wii- 84.64 million
- Xbox 360 - 50 million
- Playstation 3 - 47.9 million
And just for comparision, Handheld sales figures to date:
- Nintendo DS - 144.59 million
- Game Boy Advance - 81.51 million
- Playstation Portable - 62 million
It is expected that PS3 will over take Xbox 360 in the next few months, and as quoted above, eventually overtake the Wii and end up being the best selling console of this generation by 2014.
The PSP has also been gaining a lot of lost ground in the last couple of years, largely thanks to the Japanese and Asian markets interest in multiplayer games and the release of portable version of some of their favourite online RPGs and Monster Hunting games on the system.
It is expected for the PSP sales to eventually exceed the GBA record, but probably not to catch the NDS, especially with the N3DS being released at the moment expected to boost sales.
It also seems that the Xbox 30 sales were not boosted as much as M$ hoped with the release of Kinect. For many it is too expensive at the moment, but I thing the same is true for the PS3 Move system. As more games take advantage of both systems, and much game games appear this could all change.