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Americas Weekly Chart Week Ending 18th Dec 2010

Wii - 905,830 (+4%)
DS - 739,234 (+14%)
X360 - 698,770 (+72%)
PS3 - 390,583 (+63%)
PSP - 149,777 (+23%)
PS2 - 93,270 (+15%)

Software:

1 - Wii Sports (Wii) - 905,830
2 - New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) - 600,806
3 - Wii Sports Resort (Wii) - 567,717
4 - Super Mario All-Stars: Limited Edition (Wii) - 512,759
5 - Kinect Adventures! (X360) - 458,124 - (3,060,199)

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Balt 5631d ago (Edited 5631d ago )

Sony has got to drop price. They don't have a choice. Well, actually the price is fine for what you get; people are just stupid. Sony needs to drop price or educate their potential idiot user base better.

SixZeroFour5631d ago

why do they have to drop the price? selling close to 400k in a week, and being up 63% from last week isnt good enough

you know, the race for positioning in worldwide totals dont mean much...as long as they are profiting, im sure any of them would be happy

Balt 5631d ago

At this rate they will have been outsold, and badly, for 4 years running over the holidays. I don't know where they sit total -- But Sony has themselves to blame if they're not at 45 million to 50 million sold by now. They should have sold, at bare minimum, 13 to 15 million units a year. They've not done that.

SixZeroFour5631d ago

but again, why does positioning matter...if they drop the price, they drop their profits...sure it could cause a surge in sales, but how long would that surge last, and after the surge ends, they are stuck at making less profit than they initially would have before the price drop

Game-ur5631d ago

Fanboy dreams chart, don’t give him a hit.

sunnygrg5631d ago

Seriously, people are buying Kinect Adventures like they bought Wii Sports. At least, wait for good games to be released before buying Kinect. But then again, those are really the casual market.

kneon5631d ago (Edited 5631d ago )

@MrAnonymous

While I agree that they don't really need to drop the price yet, I expect they will before the middle of next year.

When they dropped the price to $299 the sales surged and never stopped. Even ignoring the first 6-8 weeks, the sales were still up year over year for the entire year following the price drop.

But Microsoft always does well during the Holidays, without that holiday surge they would be doing quite badly compared to the competition. I've seen ads for next week with the 360 4gb selling at $129, they are sure to sell a lot at that price.

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units5631d ago

who says they could afford one

Zoomer765631d ago

So people are idiots because they choose a brand that's different to what you would prefer them to buy, you sir seem like the idiot to me!!

RememberThe3575631d ago

No they don't, they needed more games this holiday. Sony had to see this coming when they pushed every game they had back except GT5. SCEA has to do something about their status in the US. This is a huge market and they're really not courting it very well. Maybe their just biding their time, they seem to have great timing and when ever people start talking about how bad the PS3 is doing Sony drops numbers that surprise the hell out of people.

The PS3 has to be killing over seas though with the GT5 bundles. That maybe helping them hold out against these low numbers.

strickers5631d ago

Rest of the world,bar UK,the PS3 is selling better.World wide the PS3 is due to hit 15 million this financial year.More than 360 for the 3rd(or 4th?)year running.
Arrogant US needs to get over itself.There's a reason why you had a president that didn't know anything about the outside world,he's a mirror.

eagle215631d ago

Nintendo is like...WOW! :)

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HelghastDrake5631d ago

A less expensive inferior product outselling a more expensive superior product. Nothing new to see here folks, this has been the American way of life for generations.

Mcdonoald's outsells Outback steakhouse every day, doesnt make Mcdonalds better. The 360 is like Mcdonalds; cheaply made and low in price and quality and yet still outsells everything else.

ct035631d ago

Yes, and Sony has SO MANY exclusives. How on earth are they not way out ahead?
It makes me glad that Sony's policy of exclusives sees them in third place.

RememberThe3575631d ago

Your happy to see a company with a ton of exclusive games be is last place in sales? Am I reading your comment wrong?

ct035631d ago

That's right. I'm mainly bitter for one game: Heavy Rain.

I loved Indigo Prophecy, and Sony stole the sequel away from us (PC that is). Releasing for PS3+PC would not be a disadvantage in the console war. But no, it just has to be completely exclusive.

This is why I'm glad that the platform that does release for console+PC is doing better.

The Meerkat5631d ago

More like Outback vs Longhorn.

They are both pretty much the same.
Its just down to personal taste.

Grenadan5631d ago (Edited 5631d ago )

last time i checked the 360 gpu was superior to one found in ps3

RememberThe3575631d ago

That hasn't really help in hte graphics department has it?

You can talk technical crap all you want but what happens on screen is the most important.

cereal_killa5631d ago (Edited 5631d ago )

Last I checked not one 360 developer has been able to counter anything Sony has made since 2006 (Gears 1) all this so called power you speak of means nothing if no one is willing or capable of using it. Delusional land must be so fun.

Socrates5631d ago

Having better graphics in the vast majority of multiplatform games and also having some excellent looking exclusives of its own I'd say the 360 is showing it pretty damn well.

Just because many ps3 fanboys claim nothing can touch "ps3 exclusives" doesn't make it so. It's a bunch of nonsense. Most ps3 exclusives are nothing special in the graphics department.
If Sony hadn't bought Naughty Dog and Guerrilla I guarantee the PS3 would be seen as the weaker console. That's it, a couple games. If it weren't for the Uncharted series and the killzone series, and maybe gow3, the overall impression of the ps3 would be very different.

That tells me that the reason those few games look so good is because of the skills of the developers themselves more than anything. It doesn't prove that those games wouldn't look equal or better on the 360.

If the ps3 were really more powerful it should be able to show it on most exclusives, not just a couple. It also should be able to outperform the other console on multiplatform games. The xbox was more powerful than the ps2 and it had no problem showing it on exclusives AND multiplats.

On top of all this, those ps3 exclusives that are constantly touted are really only marginally better looking than some of the better looking 360 games. It's definitely not the huge difference fanboys allude to. And upcoming games like Gears 3 and Rage look as impressive as anything.

shadyiswin5631d ago

where has all those amazing graphics got anyone? lets see it has the Wii doing almost 2 mill in a week and the 360 doing over a 1 mill in a week highly supported by casual games that aren't graphically intense,then you have playstation 3 the power house that seems to be getting bullied by the lesser 360. If a developer can have a year and a better engine to produce the same game on a stronger platform and it comes out looking worst at times(mass effect 2) that kind of somes up the ps3 problem for me.

If you're all about exclusives then the ps3 may be the machine fore you,but if you look at the history of gaming sales multi platforms games will always do better and there will always be an abundance of them,so why not get the machine they perform on much better? for cheaper? with seamless online integration?

Sony needs to play to the dumb crowd,i have a few friends very well informed about video games and some still believe just because it's on a bluray disc it will play better have better graphics bigger levels blah blah blah and thats the crowd sony needs to play to even if it's not true. People want to know there getting there monies worth and with the holiday line up of Halo:reach,Fable 3 ,Kinect,Madden 11,call of duty,and it doesnt help that developers have no problem saying these games will perform better on the 360.

Im no im off topic but im thinking sony should of did the ps3 with dvd drive and later on bring the option out for a bluray drive,yes i know it sounds like a disaster but if marketed correctly i think it would of worked and the very few games that need blu ray or the blockbusters could of had a bluray edition,seeing as hardly any xbox games need more than 2 disc( i played mass effect 2 and didnt mind switching disc at all,it actually made me wanna jump back into game more) so you have your dvd drive ps3's which would of launced at $349 next holiday down to $299, next year the slim is released at $249,the bulky ones(which i prefer) go down to $199(as i type this i realize this is exactly with microsoft did with the xbox lol) while having that low price point and having the bluray versions of the ps3 at $100 more,is my idea really that bad? i could see a god of a war 3 Bluray edtion which i think could of fit on 1 dvd so have the bluray edtion have parts 1 and 2 on it as well,idk sony should hire me,id fix there fuck ups lol

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heroprotagonist5631d ago

"A less expensive inferior product outselling a more expensive superior product....this has been the American way of life for generations."

Yeah, like the PS1 and PS2 right?

Such stupid Americans! They didn't recognize the PS1 and PS2 were inferior junk. /s

Seriously, you sound like a complete tool.

strickers5631d ago

Those systems ahd the most AND the best games unlike 360 which has the lowest,million selling % of 1st party on any system.It has the weakest games of the HD twins and a lack of variety too.Thing is that PS1/PS2 outsold everything WW but 360 ONLY dominates US/UK.PS3 outsells it in the rest of the world.It has outsold 360 every year but the 1st and PS3 is 3rd fastest selling home console of all time.Wii is 1st,PS2 2nd.
Facts are a bitch,eh?

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btk5631d ago

And after the holidays we get the sudden adjustments to the PS3 sales figures.

shutupandplay5631d ago

Wii - 905,830 (+4%)
X360 - 698,770 (+72%)
PS3 - 390,583 (+63%)

Wow PS3 is such a miserable failure this generation I don`t even know where to begin. Wii and 360 have been going strong all generation though, that`s good.

Karooo5631d ago

selling 45 million is miserable failure? haha ok.

It hasnt even hit mass market price point yet like the other consoles which are 200 bucks for years now.

Silly gameAr5631d ago (Edited 5631d ago )

I kind of figured a sales chart would show up after that one PS3 might sell well in 2011 article.

It's like people forget that the PS3 is the most expensive console and is still selling well in the place where the console is supposedly doomed.

The Meerkat5631d ago

The real story here should be the utter spanking the PS3s getting in the software sales.

312 million vs 161 million

8thnightvolley5631d ago (Edited 5631d ago )

FLAMESUIT ON!!!!!

SDF are going to be upset bout this

here is an excuse i will help u lot say.

this is only one part of the earth... south America is just a tiny market hehehe

GodofSackboy5631d ago

No, it's just idiotic American sheep buying crappy Kinect because of Microsofts half a billion dollar advertising budget for the thing, seriously when I turn on the TV all I see is that s**tty EA sports Active advert or Kinect Sports of some crap, Americans will never learn, look at every other country in the world where PS3 is still selling more despite Moves much smaller ad budget, because the rest of the world has no patriotic bias, so in Europe (apart from idiotic UK where I live, where it's equal) PS3 is owning the 360 because of the quality games in 2011.

Counter Strike5631d ago

like has allways been in Americas.

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Final Fantasy X 25th Anniversary Website Launches With New Nomura Artwork and Merchandise

Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.

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-Foxtrot26d ago

Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.

They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.

solideagle26d ago

they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.

Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted

Relientk7726d ago

Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments

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Relientk7731d ago

I remember playing this back in the day on PS2. What a sick game!

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Why the Wii is Such a Nostalgic System in 2026

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ActualWhiteMan33d ago (Edited 33d ago )

Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.

jznrpg32d ago

My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.

Smellsforfree32d ago

Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.

Loktai32d ago

Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.