Xbox 360 Reaches 30 Million Console Sales
After combing through financial reports and rooting around in bins, Shacknews offers the following list of worldwide lifetime console sales:
- Nintendo DS - 101.78 million units (as of March 31 2009)
- Nintendo Wii - 50.39 million units (as of March 31 2009)
- PSP - 50 million units (as of February 13 2009)
- Xbox 360 - 30 million units (as of May 28 2009)
- PlayStation 3 - 22.91 million units (as of March 31 2009)
Microsoft also boasts it leads current-generation consoles in attach rate, with 8.3 titles being bought per console, as well as sales for third-party developers--$5.9 billion.
On the community front, Xbox Live's 20 million active accounts have downloaded nearly 1 billion pieces of Marketplace content. Sony announced in February that the PlayStation Network had 20 million registered users, though this includes forum and PSP accounts.
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Wolfanoz
replyPS3 and 360 are both great systems. Fanboys can say what they want but when it comes down to it, you can't lose getting either one. As for Nintendo, they'll always be a leader since they're family friendly and everyone looks forward to their console specific sequels.
Where's my Pro Wrestling sequel, damn it!-
"As for Nintendo, they'll always be a leader", yeah, that's what people thought after the original Nintendo was released too. Then they slowly lost market share to Sony and MS and became the forgotten 3rd child until the Wii came storming back. It's impossible to predict the future, but looking at how everything has flopped from the last generation to this one shows volatility of the gaming industry. 5 years ago Nintendo was at the bottom, Sony was flying high, and MS was trying to secure a mediocre middle ground, now you've got Nintendo blowing the roof off in sales, MS occupying a much stronger center and Sony trying to catch up.
What's most significant to me though is the attach rate, I think that number is a much stronger indicator for what people think of the system once they get it.-
True, a Nintendo console in #1 hasn't happened since the SNES, and not this strongly since the NES.
But Nintendo's never really had a failure (except the Virtual Boy). The N64 wasn't the failed abd abandoned console of that generation, the Saturn was. The GameCube wasn't the failed and abandoned console of that generation, the Dreamcast was (and the GameCube outsold the Xbox globally).
Nintendo's had a legion of devout followers forever now and the Wii combines that with the enormous casual game market, so it comes out on top.-
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