Friday, June 15, 2007

Console sales

Interesting article on arstechnica on console sales the past month. Apparently Nintendo is leading the console race by a landslide. Who would have thought !

As you know, Nintendo absolutely owned the first quarter of the year, and with 338,000 more Wii consoles sold in May, the sales show no sign of slowing down. Still, the DS took top honors, with 423,000 units sold. These amounts almost look anomalous, for the sales of every other system are so far below Nintendo's preternatural numbers. As this trend continues month after month, Nintendo's domination is becoming a fact of life. When will it end?


So it seems the public is more interested in original fun family games than the next run of the mill first person shooter, Madden 2012 or Need For Speed XXII. Also I think the ps3 and xbox 360 overlap the PC games market a bit, with similar releases, while nintendo has far more original games to offer. So a Wii is a better supplement for pc gamers than a 360 is. And I am not even starting on the ps3, that console doesnt offer much at the moment, though that might change in the future when better games appear.

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