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Nintendo's Wii proved it is still a hot commodity, selling some 550,000 machines in the US from November 22 to 28. Despite moving over half a million units, the Wii performed worse than last year's 800,000, but in all, Nintendo sold over 1.5 million of its various game systems last week, topping its own sales record. That breaks down to more than 150 systems every minute -- or 2.5 every second.
Microsoft has not released any hard numbers on Xbox 360 sales, though product management director Aaron Greenberg revealed that it was the console's biggest sales week of the year. Greenberg said the Xbox 360 sold over two times more than the previous week. Judging by NPD's October figures, that is somewhere around 65,000 to 70,000 units -- or over 130,000 last week.
NPD will release November's sales figures in the coming weeks, which should paint a more detailed picture.
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I'm with orionlocke. I think the Xbox 360 numbers were smaller because of that exact reason. More people already own an xbox 360 compared to other game consoles. But either way, I expect these numbers to only go up as the Christmas and Hanukkah holidays approach. Blackfriday was a good sale, but those numbers WILL go up again. By a lot.
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Thanks to uncharted 2 ps3 got so famous, yet xbox 360 got some great games too.. 360 still got a lot to learn.
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Wagan8r said:
Good freaking lord, Nintendo! In the time it took me to write this, they could have sold 15 systems!
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Whats really a fun thought, I payed over twice the current price for the PS3 when I got it. It didn't come with a game and only has a 60GB HDD, oh and it came with a sixaxis sans rumble. Back then PS3 sales were maybe a tenth what they are now. Sadly I just don't have any interest playing it, the graphics are so bad compared to what my PC can do, I have over a dozen games for it but don't play them. The only thing I use it for is streaming media to my HDTV but even at that my PC is hooked up to that too... I don't regret buying it but I would like to have not purchased half the games I did and instead have got them on PC.
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it's finally time to upgrade from ps2 to ps3
.xbx360 wasn't an option for me really becouse officialy they didn't even sell consoles in my country. snobs
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AnonymousSurfer said:
That's a lot of PS3's... To think of it, if each were sold for $300, 440,000 is a bit of money. Then of course, you also have to include how much they spent to purchase the systems to sell but that's still some pretty good money.
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Xclusiveitalian said:
Ps3 is selling alot of its console ever since they lowered the price and I assume it will sell big time for Christmas. The xbox sales are really down but I assume its bc alot of people own a xbox already, or maybe 70,000 had to buy a replacement with there ridiculous break rates.
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Wii - 18 million units sold in US
360 - 11 million
PS3 - 5.7 mil
Yes 360 has a lot to learn, but from Nintendo; not Sony.
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The PS3 awesomeness still in the rise, as u can tell by the huge sales they had does past days.
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The deals this year have been fantastic. Retailers are being SO much more aggressive and SO much earlier this year over last. I guess they are trying to max out the Christmas season during this terrible recession and frankly I don't blame them. Now if only Sony will go Rambo on the PS3.
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