Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter has just told videogaming247 that he expects Xbox 360 to have outsold PS3 in America last month, ahead of NPD data to be released this week. The analyst said that his research note on the figures is to be released in approximately 45 minutes. In a subsequent follow up he also pointed out that he expects the 360 version of GTA:IV to outsell the PS3. Not that that's news in itself.
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Aaron Greenberg: 'Today Xbox 360 has a 5-million-unit console sales lead on a global basis based on most recently public reported data from both companies. This includes more than double the installed base in the US according to actual NPD sell-through and over a 1-million-unit lead across Europe also based on reported sell-through from Chart Track and GfK."
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"There's more to come: "It's one of a series of good games that will each convince consumers that there is a lot of good content on the other two boxes," Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter says. "
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“It is certainly. We are suffering currently from the huge piracy that is encompassing Crysis. We seem to lead the charts in piracy by a large margin, a chart leading that is not desirable. I believe that’s the core problem of PC Gaming, piracy. To the degree PC Gamers that pirate games inherently destroy the platform. Similar games on consoles sell factors of 4-5 more. It was a big lesson for us and I believe we wont have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future."
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With Nintendo announcing its global software tie ratio (attach rate) this morning, we were curious to know what the current software sales ratio was in the States for current-gen consoles. We contacted NPD, which gave us its latest figures. The data represents the amount of software sold per console divided by the number of consoles sold in the US. Xbox 360: software sales ratio: 7.5 Wii: software sales ratio: 5.3 PS3: software sales ratio: 4.6
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US retail specialist GameStop has revealed that in 2007, only four of over 40 publishers and manufacturers accounted for the majority of sales of new product.
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Record financials prompt major expansion into ‘more immature European markets’. US specialist retail giant GameStop has reported sales and net earnings rises of 33% and 82% respectively, spurring on an ambitious target to open up to 600 new stores by the end of the year. It noted that GameStop has become the world's fastest growing retailer in the Fortune 500 with sales of $7.1 billion for fiscal 2007.
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1 (-) 360 - Rock Band Bundle 2 (15) 360 - Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock w/ Guitar 3 (2) WII - Wii Play w/ Remote 4 (3) 360 - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 5 (1) WII - Super Mario Galaxy 6 (-) PS3 - Rock Band Bundle 7 (10) PS3 - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 8 (-) WII - Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock w/ Guitar 9 (6) DS - Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day 10 (9) DS - New Super Mario Bros.
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Toshiba waved the white flag in the home movie war, giving up on its HD DVD format. "We carefully assessed the long-term impact of continuing the so-called 'next-generation format war' and concluded that a swift decision will best help the market develop," Toshiba President and CEO Atsutoshi Nishida said in a statement.
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Interestingly, on the hardware front all the talk lately of the PS3 coming on strong seems to be true. The console sold 269K units for the month, just slightly behind the Wii which was the best selling system with 274K units. The PS2 also continues to do remarkably well, selling 264K units. As for Microsoft, the Xbox 360 sold 230K units, perhaps slightly hurt by the shortage problem the company has made everyone aware of.
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