The Xbox 360 won the February console wars, marking the 14th month that the console has sold more units than its competitors. 426,000 Xbox units were sold in February, marking the 12th consecutive month that the 360 has held more than 40% of the current generation console market share. The PlayStation 3 sold around 360,000 units, which is still quite impressive.
“The best-selling hardware platform for the month was Xbox 360 for the seventh month in a row. While most hardware platforms posted declines versus last year, all current-generation platforms improved sales over January 2012 by more than 50 percent," said Anita Frazier, NPD Analyst.
Nintendo had a successful February as well. They sold 625,000 total hardware units last month, and saw tons of growth across each of its product lines compared to January. Here's a quick breakdown:
- Nintendo 3DS: 262,000, a 53 percent increase
- Wii: 228,000, a 50 percent increase
- Nintendo DS: 135,000, a 76 percent increase
- Total: 625,000, a 57 percent increase
While that's the good news (for some, at least), video game hardware sales as a whole are down by 18% to $381.4M compared to $466.9M from February 2011. But compared to January, the console hardware numbers increased by 62% without the inclusion of the PlayStation Vita. If you want to account for the four days of retail sales in this reporting period, then that number jumps up to 87% which is pretty good.
'Fess up gamers, did you get a new console in February, and if so, what did you get? If you want to see which game topped the charts in February, check out our February software analysis.
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lucidity
Maybe should have payed attention in school when they talked about gyroscopics.
scorpian876
The reason I never went back to the X-Box 360 (Xbox 360 Slim DESTROYS Disc If Moved) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =VdzwFWsLrMU&feature=relat ed
lucidity
The numbers for 2011 are in:
"We have hit that target of being global No.1 and we want to keep that going and to have an even bigger year in 2012," he commented during a GDC presentation today, adding "Halo 4 is our big bet for the year and we want it to be talked about everywhere."
http://www.oxm.co.uk/39611/m icrosoft-teases-new-xbox-games -at-e3-and-gamescom/
Microsoft s taking its annual video game victory lap, this time celebrating Xbox 360 sales for 2011, during which the 360 outsold both the PlayStation 3 and Wii (tied for second place) by over 2.7 million units.
http://techland.time.com/201 2/01/13/hail-to-the-king-xbox- 360-2011s-top-games-console-by -a-mile/
http://www.geekwire.com/2012 /xbox-360-tops-wii-ps3-1st-tim e-yearly-global-sales
Sony s earnings report, issued yesterday, puts the PlayStation 3 at 6.5 million units sold worldwide for the holiday quarter, topping the 5.6 million units registered by Nintendo s Wii for the same period but falling short of the 8.2 million Xbox 360 sales reported by Microsoft.
According to data compiled by GeekWire, it s the first time that the Xbox 360 has led worldwide holiday sales since 2006, when the PlayStation 3 and Wii were just being launched, posting a partial quarter and not yet ramping up their manufacturing to meet demand.
Here s the bigger news: The Xbox 360 s strong holiday quarter also put the Microsoft console ahead in worldwide sales globally for the full year of 2011, with 14.9 million units sold, compared with 14.1 million for the PS3 and 10.33 million for the Wii.
According to our data, compiled from historical earnings reports, it s first time the Xbox 360 has topped the worldwide console market for a full year of head-to-head competition with the PS3 and Wii.
Bloodthr0e
Fact is that these numbers are only from North America. Globally, the PS3 is selling more. So as far as the "CONSOLE WAR", as G4 put it, is concerned, the 360 did not sell more during the month of February. Unless we are to believe the console war is exclusive to North America and doesn't account for the rest of the world.
f3nrir
its not time for a new playstation or something new from microsoft or nintendo, its time for other companies to begin making consoles. to be honest i think valve should be the next, steam is amaizing and seeing something like that but in console form would be great.
lucidity
Let's see what the independently audited financial statements say
http://ww.vgchartz.com/artic le/88795/the-big-three-shipmen t-update-through-december-2011 /
"In 2011, Nintendo shipped 15.03m 3DS, 10.33m Wii, and 6.47m DS systems, or 31.83m systems total. Sony shipped 14.1m PS3s, 7.6m PSPs, 4.5m PS2s, and 0.5m Vitas globally, or 26.7m systems total. Microsoft shipped 14.9m X360s. During 2010, Microsoft shipped 12.2m X360s. Sony shipped 14.4m PS3s, 7.7m PS3s, and 6.9m PS2s, a total of 29m systems in 2010. Nintendo shipped 19.46m DS systems in 2010 along with 17.19m Wiis for a total of 36.65m systems."
Jemmi77
Wow yeah the xbox won in the month of February for the U.S I might add the ps3 won globally for February oh and January as well as the beggining week of march oh I remember they forgot to say that because there xbox noobs. Ps3 is winning in sales not the 360. They just make it sound like that NPD only reports for U.S sales which is what G4 got this info from. Ps3 is winning in sales not xbox. Amazing how people can be so sneaky. oh wait only xbox noobs are like g4 wait to not say it like a lot of websites don't because there all xbox fanboys.
scorpian876
The PlayStation 3 sold around 360,000 units, which is still quite impressive. I'm not trying to sound like a fan boy or start a console war ,but Sony gives Micro Soft a challenge and exclusive titles for each specific console.But yeah,the X-Box 360 sells more in America and the PlayStation 3 maybe sells more world wide,so win win for all consoles.
scorpian876
http://community.eu.playstatio n.com PlayStation-3-General-Discussi on/How-many-copies-worldwide.H ow many copies have the Playstation device sold worldwide? (PS 1,2,3, Vita, Portable, Move).
The ps3 have sold over 600,000,000 devices w.w, and Xbox 360 have sold 750,000,000
The VITA have already sold over 200,000 devices worldwide and PSP have sold 31,000,000 devices worldwide. PlayStation Move sold over 14,000,000 devices worldwide.
PlayStation 2 sold over 1,200,000,000 devices and PlayStation 1 over 300,000,000 devices.
Wizky
I bought a 3DS....what did you guys buy?
thats the question right?
Mashpotaters
G4 has you guys eating out of their hands. They put "console war" in the title of the article, and you all play along going with it, and go with flaming a console in favor of the other because your told to. Shame on G4 for promoting this kind of childish behavior. There is no war. Just websites that like to watch its users flame each other.
k1lla73dd1z
okay i think everyone here knows that xbox sucks and they dont last long, but see that's the thing if it sucks so bad then why do people still buying them. i think that is the reason they are so bad so people can buy them more, microsoft is smart making new ones everytime while ps3 makes only 1 or 2 and yet the design is still the same while the 360 makes improvements and tries to compete, but they aren't competing on anything they rich, they know it and they can make as much as 360s as they want cause people keep on buying them and they don't care if the ps3 is better and thats why microsoft knows the consumer, the cosumers knows they love new things so thats why microsoft makes new ones every time.
lucidity
It's amazing that Bloodthr0e will take the time to criticise my post but won't read my post.
"This will also mark the 14th month in a row that ppl come to the NPD thread and complain that this is just North America.
So maybe G4 should make it clear that this is just NA, ruffly half the worlds gaming market by volume."
For the second time, NPD is, has always been, North America.
Bloodthr0e
These numbers seem off according to Video Game Charts (vgchartz.com). Looking at VGC, the PS3 outsold the 360 every week during February. Maybe you're only accounting for U.S. sales. Those look like the numbers for the PS3 and 360 sales in the U.S. for February. However, looking at global sales. The 360 sold about 585,000. While the PS3 sold about 715,000. The PS Vita has even been outselling the 360 every week. The PS3, however, is outselling the Vita.
DPsx72
Selling it at all is a waste. PS3, Vita, and 3DS has been outselling this trash all year. They have games, 360 does not.
X3rce5
Sales figures don't necessarily mean it's the better system. Just saying.
Honestly, I did buy a 360 last month but this would count as the 7th one since launch. Each time I got bored of the system I traded it in as opposed to my PS3 and Wii.
teac77
Selling Xbox 360s with just 4GB of a hard drive is just... irresponsible. Honestly.
blueboykc
what never fails to come up when this subject is broached is this fabrication that all these sales are due to rrod..that s a lie pure and simple made up by the haters because they cant fathom ppl actually buy the 360 because its the better system..the truth about the rrod is if it happens you get a new console FOR FREE if you have the common sense to call microsoft and send in your broken system...
you haters arent fooling anyone..except maybe yourselves..
Spidey817
Soooo... A bunch of people replaced their RROD 360s for the 8th time. How is this news?
Bloodthr0e
It's like G4 wants people to keep calling them bias Xbots.
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