Nintendo overtakes Sony in the game software market

According to market watcher iSuppli, Nintendo has surpassed Sony as the leader in the video game software market in the third quarter of 2007 on the strength of new titles for both its Wii and DS.

Worldwide revenue for Nintendo DS and Wii gaming software amounted to $1.2 billion in the third quarter, up 31.4 per cent from $943.6 million in the second quarter and more than double the $611 million from the third quarter of 2006.

Sony's third quarter game software revenues were $1 billion for its PS3, PS2 and PSP.

Microsoft posted revenues of $317.8 million for Xbox and Xbox 360 software.

(via Electronics Weekly, Oct. 30)

[Lightning Mr Bubbles]

I might pick up a PSP myself, mostly for Castlevania.

[Nuch Vader]

Castlevania is the only reason to pick up a PSP.

[Shankle]

There is no single reason, but the greatest and most important by far is locoroco. If everybody in the world was given a PSP and locoroco, world peace would be established very rapidly

[ruibing]

I think the PSP has a lot of solid titles:

FF Tactics
Disgaea
Jeanne D'arc
Syphon Filter
MGS Portable Ops
Warhammer
Burnout Legends
Pursuit Force
Tomb Raider: Legends
SOCOM
Me and my Katamri
GTA Liberty Stories
Killzone
Lumines

There's got to be something here for everyone.

[PS360WII]

Revenues for everyone! Yippy! Hmm I'd say more but people are getting ticked at me so I'll join up on some of the hate. Why does the Wii get top spot don't consumers know it's the weakest system of the 3. Of all the nerve! Stupid consumers spending money on systems that don't play DVD's a non-gaming function.

[Naruto]

MS is last wow

[Kleptic]

hahaha people disagreed with that...

even funnier is that Halo 3 made like 2/3s of that $317 million...in a month...

[yaygames]

What, with the DS and the Wii...

[PS360WII]

For game sales it's almost not fair to count the DS really. It's sort of an enigma. If it was just counting the home consoles the list would most likely be flipped.

[otherZinc]

Across the big 3: 360, Wii, & PS3, the 360 leads the software sales of the PS3 & Wii combined.

In September Halo 3 sales totaled over 280million alone. I dont know where this clown gets his #'s but this sh!t won't stop until 1 of these clowns get fired for misleading the public.

[PS360WII]

Not really misleading. It never said that it's for consoles only. Sony and Nintendo have handhelds that sell software.

[Kleptic]

that isn't misleading...you 360 fanboys just forget that the only thing MS has is the 360...they dropped the original Xbox altogether...

Sony has an installed base of 160 million+ platforms that it is making games for currently (that is CURRENTLY...no PS1 consoles in that number)...Nintendo is behind that, but apparently earned more revenue on software than Sony did...

MS has an installed based of under 15 million currently...thats why the numer is so low...this isn't only PS3 vs. 360 vs. Wii...this is the real picture...and it illustrates how funny it is when 360 fanboys say Sony is doomed...

[SolidSnake93]

Nintendo always starts strong, but Sony always finishes strong. It simply works that way. The ps2 didn't sell well at the beginning, but at the end it pulled through as the number one selling console for the 6th generation and the same happened for the Playstation 1.

[Shankle]

Not just 6th generation. The PS2 was the most successful console of all time.

[BrotherNick]

"Nintendo always starts strong, but Sony always finishes strong. It simply works that way."
Just like how I hold Jesus as my personal saviour...it's amazing that you have that much faith in a company, we need people like you.

[DJ]

I'm kinda pissed that Smash Bros got delayed, but I cannot WAIT to try out the level editor.

[Vojkan]

pathetic Microsoft buahaha

[Bonsai1214]

i love nintendo first party games. always worth it IMO. but sony has like what, 13 internal developers? once they hit their stride with ps3 i expect them to get back on top.

[Kleptic]

SCE has control of more internal 1st party development than MS and Nintendo combined...not to mention 2nd party'ish (w/e you want to call it) exlusitivity like Eat, Sleep, Play...Insomniac...Naughty Dog...Guerilla...just to name a few...

I am not positive...haven't read up on it in a while...and don't know how this breaks down quaterly...but I don't think Sony has been out sold on a year long margin software wise since FFVII (a Sony published game also) shipped back in '97...Nintendo probably won't take Sony for 07 total...but if things don't accelerate regularly with the PS3 and PSP through 08...it could happen...

[Shankle]

The end-of-year rush of PS3 titles is just now beginning. Combined with the price drop we're likely to see PS3 sales, especially software sales, accelerate rapidly until Christmas. Then of course there will be a fair bit of a dip until the spring, when another wave of even better games is scheduled to hit.
I don't know why on earth I'm making this comment, or even looking at this thread. I don't normally care about sales. But there you go, my 2 cents. And strangely my third comment. Goodbye now....

[mikeslemonade]

Well going by trends and the truth, SCE will close the gap because PS2 will sell through 2010, and PSP and PS3 sold at a loss, so of course Nintendo is winning. Nintendo breaks even at launch with there system and they always have the cheapest system, so more people buy it than Sony or MS. PSP is just starting to make money this year in software and PS3 is far off from making money probably atleast a year off to say the least. PS2 is the only one who's holding the ship, so it's easy to say Nintendo is beating SCE when SCE purposely uses this strategy where they will sell at a loss in the beginning of the system for the sake of good and strong hardware. Right now PSP is showing PS2 graphics capabilities and the PS3 is using just about 50% capabilities of the system when Uncharted is released. Can Nintendo systems evolve like that? No, because there hardware depends almost solely on innovation, but innovation doesn't make a good game and it can only take a game so far.

[BrotherNick]

There are two types of immersion, and the consoles are now taking sides...ones for visual immersion, and ones for physical immersion. Both are needed to go to the next level, but physical immersion has been lagging comparative to graphics. All I want is both one day, and I can live in my own little Matrix, where I'm a porn star.

[snoopgg]

Nintendos software sucks so badly. What good game is actually on the ds or wii right now???? I don't expect any answers to persuade me on this opinion.

[commadore65]

'I don't expect any answers to persuade me on this opinion.'

That's open minded.
You must truly love games.

[goodganja]

Haha. Micro$hit is in last place. Something they should be used to by now.

P L A Y B 3 Y O N D

[mirroredderorrim]

I honestly think after Christmas, things will truly heat up in this console war.

[otherZinc]

When making comparisons, you need to be on = footing.:

3360PS3&Wii sales combined!

Thats the issue: now argue that. The article is very misleading, it implies that the Wii & PS3 is the Developers choice, when every 3rd party developer will tell you the 360 is where you want to go to make money.

[PS360WII]

you are trying to make a new topic. This article is talking about what software is Currently selling on all formats! 360, PS2, PSP, PS3, Wii, and DS. This article has NOTHING to do solely on the consoles.

You are the one trying to mislead everyone. Man give it a rest we know the 360 is here to stay.

[used cisco]

Looks to be selling quite a bit actually. If you take out Halo, MS numbers are really low. Maybe they're not selling as many third party titles as we were lead to believe.

Its no wonder the Wii is kicking trash, what with the awesome lineup this fall. Really, they all have pretty solid lineups in the next few months though PS3s really kicks in next spring. Anyway, glad they are all doing relatively well.

[feejo]

Ya you know DS and Game Boy and all that are for kids, games cost 15$ each, that is why they sell alot. I prefer console. Ans the looser Xbox and the RROD. Hey that sound like a good music band.

Xbox and the RROD are performing the song disk scratched for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

And the next song egg fry on a Xbox in 3 sec.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[alaaji]

it helps if you don't just throw out the same tired, lame argument that anything that Nintendo makes is for children. If you take the time to search through some articles on this site or elsewhere, you will see that a large proportion of adults own and play the DS.

I've seen articles talking about families owning 2 or more DSes and that includes the parents.

Back on target, it's good to see everyone is making money here and that Nintendo actually does sell software contrary to what all of the haters say.

[Shaka2K6]

Ha pretty horrible, thank god Sony is the only one in the gaming industry still keeping with good innovative games for everyone.