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Submitted by Dannagar 1085d ago | news

Americas Sales for the Week Ending February 7, 2009

Video game hardware sales continue to perform well relative to early 2008. Nonetheless, hardware sales for the first week in February 2009 are down sharply from the last week of January 2009. Sales in the previous week were artificially inflated by tax breaks and a relative abundance of hardware supply so the drop off across the board is rather natural. The recent announcement of the DSi launch date could cannibalize DS hardware sales in the Americas somewhat for the short term as some potential users wait for the fancier model. If that is the case, industry sales increases over 2008 will fall on Wii and Xbox 360 until the DS market gets reinvigorated.

Wii - 234,094
DS - 154,944
XBox 360 - 92,062
PSP - 61,176
PS3 - 56,518
PS2 - 28,838 (Nintendo DS, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360)

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