Pachter: November 2011 Console Sales Numbers

Gadgehit writes: "Wedbush anlyst, Michael Pachter has written to investors today with the latest results for console sales in North America in November 2011. The Xbox 360 seems to have outsold the Nintendo Wii by almost 400,000 units. The Xbox 360′s total sales in the month were 1.44 million units, according to the analyst, representing a 5% increase year-over-year for the console."

[gaffyh]

Nice numbers for all the consoles tbh, despite the decrease in sales for the Wii.

[fei-hung]

Wonder if this sales trend will continue to the end of the year, especially around xmas.

[evilunklebud]

Good numbers all around.... but the 360, man, it got hot (no pun intended) at the end of the year.

[dendenmooshi]

Dance Central has gotten kind of hot. I would contribute it to that. Based on what I'm seeing.

[belal]

ps3 did great too! 750 000 console and ocming in second. I expect ps3 to be number 1 world wide.

[evilunklebud]

Ahead of the Wii? No way....

[slayorofgods]

"41% increase in sales year-over year"

I'd have to say so, it looks like a lot of the wii type gamers are starting to migrate to the PS3.

[slayorofgods]

@Aviator

I read even more carefully then that.....

1st place xbox = 5% increase year-over-year

2nd place Wii = 17% decrease in sales year-over-year

3rd place PS3 = massive 41% increase in sales year-over year

You can load me up with dissagree's all you want but the wii is in decline and the PS3 is showing the sharpest increase..... Those wii sales ARE helping the PS3 the most. The 360 is doing its usual self, very well for the holidays.

-edit- I didn't see belal put 2nd place I read too fast, but the PS3 did do a good job.

[DK286K]

Remember, PS3 essentially had two price drops in recent months. There was a $50 drop a few months ago, followed by another $50 drop (plus the inclusion of two games) for Black Friday.

With two price drops and the biggest Black Friday deal, it's no wonder PS3 increased by that percentage. It won't last because the $199 PS3 with two games was a one time offer. The $149 Xbox 360 will probably be permanent soon since MS hasn't yet matched Sony's $50 price drop.

[aviator189]

Didn't you read the article? The PS3 was said to come in last place, not second.

[DiRtY]

Wow 2:1 in favour of the Xbox in NA is huge.

[RBdrift]

yet, ps3 world wide sell's are even bigger.

http://www.smgamers.com/?p=...

[DK286K]

That article was posted October 28. PS3 was ahead by 1 million at that point. PS3 was already several months into it's $50 price drop, while 360 was still the same price it had been all year.

In November, 360 outsold PS3 by around 700,000 in the U.S. alone.

I seriously doubt that Europe & Japan can even come close to making up the U.S. deficit for PS3 considering Black Friday is a U.S. phenomenon.

[nightmarex121]

A lot of console sales but i wonder why the declining software sales, this year there was so many good games.

[FCOLitsjustagame]

Well once you have Skyrim theres no reason to buy anything else. ;p.

I would say I am going to catch up on all those other games after Jan but I will be too busy preparing my ME character for ME3. I guess I will pick them up next spring.

[Ryo-Hazuki]

Kinect did a good job catching the casuals eye. I seen lots of mothers and grandmothers buying the console because of kinect.

[caseh]

Yeap, i've heard 3 people in my office today saying how they picked up an XBOX360 bundle with Kinect for the 'kids'.

On a side note, two of them also bought Battlefield 3 for themselves. :D

[Ryo-Hazuki]

Perception to the casuals in the U.S at the moment....

Kinect is something new to them so its grabbing them. Cheapest xbox model 199.99
The wii has hit market saturation but by selling it for 149.99 during the holidays you're going to sell.
Ps3 is for the older crowd for gaming and bluray. Cheapest model is 249.99.

[testerg35]

But if you're saying that Kinect is something new and grabbing them then you can't say $199. It would be $250-$300 for a Kinect bundle (not including black friday). So I don't think you can use price as a reasoning.

[DK286K]

The $199 360 does NOT include Kinect. Cheapest Kinect bundle is $299.

[AmaZinG]

November + December are Xbox dominated months HW and SW wise
Games Like Skyrim, Call of Duty, Halo HD, Assassins Creed and many others get released and Xbox is the Console of Choice to play the biggest blockbusters, join that Gears 3 and Forza 4 that you can buy dirt cheap in the US.

And of course then you have Kinect wich is very big this months especially in Christmas wich will probably set another Record this year.

November numbers will be big, i dont trust pachter since he is allways wrong but i think that Xbox has break the Milion this month (November) easily since Mw3 got released and Sold 960K on Black Friday week Alone... i Also think Wii did over 1M and Ps3 did around 600K.

November is 4 weeks.

[nightmarex121]

The problem is software sales are down with all those great games the 2 biggest shooter bf3 and mw3, the biggest wrpg skyrim, the biggest 360 games gears and halo, the biggest ps3 games uncharted, the biggest nintedo games zelda, if those block busters can't sell then we should fear the most is coming true and casual market is taking over.

[slayorofgods]

@nightmarex121
MW3 shattered records with grossing $775 million. A tiring series is still selling very well.

and Skyrim is the best selling game Bethesda has ever released...
Oblivion sold 490,000 in 2 weeks
Skyrim sold 3.4 million in 2 days
wrpg's are on the rise to an all time high, expect more of them.

[nightmarex121]

I can see why skyrim got a lot of sales because back then oblivion there was barley any consoles on the market but now there a lot more. But the problem is why aren't software sales up, this is probably the biggest year for block buster games and software sales should be up.

I always hear how developers keep saying they don't know what going to happen in 10 years but i think they have an idea about it. It seem like casual game market will be more focus then instead of block buster games. And it seem like its getting more true each day with all the kinect salse and block busters not selling a lot.

[slayorofgods]

The causal market is a huge market, but don't expect the hardcore market go away though. Developers are making big mistakes by mixing up these 2 markets. We are seeing games like FF trying to become more casual friendly and are really just upsetting people in the process.

Skyrim is the anti-casual game. It is not at all dumbed down to appeal to the casual market and it has been a commercial success. I'll repeat it is Bethesda's most successful game ever beating out Fallout 3 as well. Why? The hardcore gamer market is very much alive.

[Khordchange]

um wow, you guys know this is a prediction right? HE also predicted the wii to sell 150,000 when it sold 250,000 a few monthes ago. Wait till the actual numbers are out brahs

[mrsatan]

I wish I could get payed for stating the obvious. 99 percent of gamers could do this guys job better than him.

[Clarence]

So they put 960,000m 360 together with 750,000m kinect and they get 1.44m consoles solids. When actually it was 960,000m consoles.