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

[madestar]

can you say the gap is gettin' closer??? bubbles please

[Hallucinate]

thats only amercia..we should wait for world wide..if they even do a WW on a weekly basis anyways

[ambientFLIER]

Can you say the gap is getting wider? For the gap to grow smaller, the PS3 would have to sell more than the 360 each week.

[RROD4TIMES]

it's only vgcharts.. i'd rather wait for official numbers from both parties...... 360 goin' to give numbers shiipped or actual numbers sold??? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... lol jk

[fufotrufo]

amm assuming 360 numbers are shipped and not sold...do you really think sony's reported numbers are any different?

[RROD4TIMES]

lets be honest now.. lol m$ are some slimey mf'ers.. they put out a console that they knew would fvck up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4 times man!!!!!!!!!!!!!! rrod 4 times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! let's compare actual workin' 360's with actual workin' ps3's.... face palm a-hole

[ukilnme]

Please remember to take your pills before posting. We would like to see some objective thoughts rather than crazy delusional ramblings. Oh wait, I forgot this is the open zone. Carry on RROD4TIMES.

[kewlkat007]

......

[JokesOnYou]

If vg chartz numbers are close to accurate then thats still one helluva deep breath at 234k for the week.

JOY

[N4Sony]

This is VGChartz, only credible if your console is winning. They had January 360 victory inflated by about 50,000 units, so, let's just add that to the 2,345,803 page list of examples as to why YOU DON'T TRUST THESE NUMBERS.

Wait for NPD before we all start bashing each other, okay?

[Hercules]

first I thought we didn't trust vgchratz second..these numbers are actually good (if its real) to be only for a week..sony is making up money for the ps2/psp...oh well

happy gaming!!!!

uncharted2 ftw!!!

[Kill Crow]

when they report your favourite console doing worse than YOU think it is ....

[table]

the xbox is flying off the shelves in the states because of the cheap arcade model... and also we all know how much america loves microsoft...

[Foxgod]

well, why would you not love a western product, i am european, i love western products

Unless its about food, i love food from everywhere.

[ukilnme]

I know it hurts, but help me understand something. It gets a little confusing with all the back and forth from a certain majority here on N4G. Do sales matter today or only when the preferred console outsells the other console?

[PS360PCROCKS]

America loves Microsoft? Where the hell are you from? America loves Apple and everything foreign, most of out products nowadays are either outsourced and made in other countries or flat out just imported. Everyone and their mom has an Ipod, not a Zune.

[BRG9000]

I'd still really like to see a breakdown of how the three Xbox SKUs are selling relative to each other. I bet the arcade was huge during the holidays, but isn't the top seller right now. I know literally nobody with an arcade model.

[WhittO]

360 still outselling the ps3, but not by much and thats with the 360 literally hundreds of dollars cheaper than the ps3.

Wonder what the sales numbers will be like when the ps3 drops its price by $50-$100 !?

[Foxgod]

almost 2:1 is not by much ?
This is weekly sales, if every week is like this then the 360 sells 370K a month, and the ps3 220K

thats a 150K difference....
On yearly basis that means the 360 sells 1.8 Million consoles more in the usa.

However, last year the 360 sold 4:1 compared to the ps3 in the last three months of the year, cranking the difference up to almost 3 million.

[mcgrawgamer]

but foxgod summed it nicely for me.

[WhittO]

Since when is the 360 selling 92,062 and ps3 selling 56,518 a ratio of 2:1 ?
(lol i see you edited your comment)

Your also forgetting that the 360 may have sold more the last 3 months of the year, but the ps3 acutally outsold the 360 last year more months than the 360 outsold the ps3.

Anyway, the U.S isnt the entire market, the ps3 is still outselling the 360 EVERY MONTH in Japan and Europe, dont forget them markets.

Those sales for a console thats like $399 are great, all i was saying is imagine them sales if the ps3 price was $299

[DelbertGrady]

Xbox 360 Pro 60gb - $299
http://www.gamestop.com/Bro...

Sony PlayStation 3 40GB(without backwards compability) - $349
http://www.gamestop.com/Bro...

That's $50 dollars, not "hundreds".

[WhittO]

ps3 80GB $399

http://www.amazon.com/PlayS...

xbox 360 $199

http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-...

Thats more than $50 difference ...

[ukilnme]

Stop the spin whitto. I'm getting dizzy.

@ Soda Popinsky

"They" conveniently leave that out. It helps with the spin.

@ whitto

LOL. It's cute that you think I'm getting defensive. I support all of the current consoles and handhelds. The "They" I am referring to are the Sony fans that claim sales don't matter and then try to spin the released numbers because the PS3 was outsold by the 360. Of course the Wii is never mentioned by hardly anybody.

[WhittO]

dont need to spin numbers if they arnt bad, those arnt bad numbers and all i said was there will be a large increase of numbers ontop of them when there is a price drop.

No need to get all defensive etc, didnt say it would outsell the 360 with a price drop or even say anything negative about the 360.

And your not on "sides" or teams or anything, whats with the "they", cant put an opinion on here without like 5 people coming to tell you, you are wrong.

[testerg35]

whitto, actually if you look at it.. that 1 week difference of ~40k units is almost 1month diff of PS3 sales in Japan.

[dragunrising]

You are correct in saying that the 360 is being outsold in Japan but not much else. Therefore I have to correct you! :-)

If you look at this site:

http://vgchartz.com/

and look at Hardware Sales, 07th Feb 09 you will see that the PS3 is outselling the 360 by no more than 2:1 in Japan. With that said, the 360 is outselling the PS3 by 30,000 units in Europe. If you like stats, and have been checking differences since the price drop in Europe, you will notice that the 360 has been outselling the PS3 week to week and month to month for a while (gasp). The difference in numbers sold may not be as profound as in America but it is substantial. Currently, you cannot say that PS3 sells more in Europe (or more specifically the UK). Also, people tend to forget that the UK is the second largest consumer in video game purchasing; recently surpassing Japan. Considering that sales in Japan are increasingly insignificant, its not a huge deal the 360 sells very little there.

@ testerg35- the difference in sales between the PS3 and 360 is not 40,000. Try 8,000. The ratio is 2:1.

Edit: @ whitto- the UK is a part of Europe which happens to own the largest market share of consoles in Europe. It is correct to say the UK is very significant in European sales charts because it is. The PS3 sells more in other areas of Europe but as a WHOLE the 360 has been selling better. This could change...or not. Its interesting...