260°
Submitted by Dannagar 1097d ago | news

Americas Sales for the Week Ending January 31, 2009

The week ending January 31, 2009 saw a rise in console sales compared to both the previous year and the previous week. Total video game hardware sales grew 31% from the previous week due to replenishing product supply and the distribution of tax rebate checks. Wii sold nearly 320,000 units to lead, nearly three times the volume of any other console and close to ten times the volume of what PS2 sold for the week. Even the DS was topped by Wii by 33%. Sony's PS3 saw only a 12,000 unit jump in sales from the previous week, allowing Microsoft's Xbox 360 to outsell PS3 by 80% this week.

Wii - 318,863
DS - 240,014
XBox 360 - 116,543
PSP - 87,189
PS3 - 65,269
PS2 - 31,542 (Nintendo DS, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360)

New stories
10°

I Choose You Pikachu! Can You Deliver This Valentine?

6m ago - Are you making last minute Valentine’s Day plans? Nintendo has you covered, well at least for the... | Nintendo DS
10°

Fable over time

7m ago - With the passage of time comes change. Time makes the car run slower, the children bigger, and al... | Xbox
20°

Gotham City Impostors Review (PopCultureShock)

7m ago - Reubin Montgomery: "What happens when you take a Batman fan’s dreams of actually being Batman or... | PC
20°

CVG: Comments of the week

7m ago - From CVG: Xbox 720 pre-owned games block 'would be fantastic,' says dev. It's this kind of... | PC
Ad

Check out our Final Fantasy XIII-2 Review - 9/10

Now - Despite the story slowing down at times, the game is really impressive and a lot of fun to play. | Promoted post
20°

6 Ways Mass Effect 3 Can Still Fail

7m ago - Steven Schneider: I'm starting to worry myself. In between fits of whispering "Garrus" to the sha... | PC