Thursday, May 15, 2008

April sales in the console wars

As the title suggests, the numbers for April are like this according to data collectors from IGN. Surprisingly Xbox 360 still outsold (but barely) the PS3 with numbers totaling 188,000 consoles versus Sony's 187,100 consoles. not a huge break but surprising considering how much longer Xbox has been on the shelves. Sony and Microsoft has attributed this primarily to the release of GTA IV, which is pretty obvious since it top's their list of the best selling names.
Of course, Nintendo Wii still trumps them with 714,200 consoles, but seriously are you surprised? GTA IV sold twice as many games on Xbox as it did on PS, 1.8 million vs. 1 million.
However the experts say that because it released so late in April it didn't impact as much as it should and the remaining figures will likely show during the sales of May. I don't really care about the console wars too much considering it hurts sales for the loser because the one's who don't treat themselves to what they like buy whatever's popular. But it surprises me that Xbox has stayed on top of Sony, wow, after being one year ahead of sony the well should have dried up in sales. Nope. and that's even worse for Sony since there is speculation of them still losing alot of money on their consoles, almost 250 dollars, and thats after the cheaper chip swap in them.
Here's a solution, make the George Foreman grill version like the pictures are showing a lot of. On a more serious note, how about Sony kills the PSP. I find it funny that the DS lite outsells it by twice as much and that it probably kills some of their PS3 sales. I know its a plan to eventually turn to handhelds instead of consoles in theory, but it doesn't seem to be working well. And the sad thing is Microsoft has announced their own "handheld" device, although they haven't confirmed if it's Xbox related which is most likely.

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