Worldwide Console Hardware Sales Compared

Thanks to GameSpy for their import gaming column which also collates the total hardware sales for all the major consoles by territory, information that's often hard to find in one place. The article points out: "Generally speaking, worldwide, the PlayStation 2 is crushing the competition, having sold millions and millions more consoles than the Xbox or GameCube", and "Xbox seems to be more popular [than GameCube] in both North America and Europe", leading Nintendo's console by a million in the U.S. and a couple of hundred thousand in Europe. But in the East, the situation is different, since "hardly anybody is buying the Xbox in Japan", and the GameCube has a one-and-a-half million console advantage, further bolstered by a recent weekly chart that has the GC selling 16,841 consoles, and Xbox selling just 530 machines.

Comments

Re:Low numbers for europe

[Amanset]

Possibly due to have less games to choose from.

For a long time now many games were not released in Europe. Unless I am mistaken, Final Fantasy 7, for example, was the first FF game released in Europe. Neither Chrono Trigger or Chrono Cross were. Xenogears wasn't and there is no sign of Xenosaga.

OK, there is a slight RPG bias there, but it stretches to other styles. Animal Crossing, one of the standout games for the Gamecube which has sold the system to those who traditionally don't buy video games, has still not been definitely confirmed for Europe. There have been rumours and allegedly it comes out in Australia (where the games are compatible with European machines) next month.

Because of this there is also quite an import scene, with consumers getting consoles from Japan or the US.

All of this affects the sales in Europe.

Re:Hardware numbers...

[ivan256]

http://www.the-magicbox.com/

These "hard to find" numbers that gamespy has, plus the numbers you're looking for, updated weekly.

Re:Sorry, but this is a very poor article

[clu76]

(Yes, they only shipped 80,000 units worldwide between April 1 and June 30).

I know it's impossible to try to stop misinformation. But I'm going to give it the old college try, anyways.

The correct figure for Nintendo was 800,000 units shipped worldwide. Someone, somewhere made typo. And that false number is still floating all over the net.

It's 800,000 you moron.

[Anonymous Coward]

That's more than the 50,000 Xbox Live subscriptions out there (next to zero new Xbox Live users in the past 6 months)

Re:Bleed, boy! Bleed!

[nelsonal]

I just bought one too, and I've so far enjoyed MechAssault, SegaGT (although it's a poor imitation of GT, but still fun) Dynasty Warriors 4, that was actualy what I was waiting for, and SC2. The last two are cross platform but if it's the only console you have they're quite fun. Halo looks good, but I'll wait for it to hit the bargain racks first.