Worldwide Console Hardware Sales Compared

Posted by simoniker on Sunday September 21, 2003 @07:22PM from the might-is-right? dept.

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.

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Sorry, but this is a very poor article by Zico · 2003-09-22 04:00 · Score: -1, Troll

First off, these numbers don't measure popularity, they measure how many have been shipped to retailers. You need to know how many were sold to customers to have an idea of popularity.

Secondly, they're not very recent. The Xbox numbers are current as of June 30, while the GameCube numbers are current as of March 31. At least the author could've updated the GameCube numbers to their June 30 levels of 9,630,000. (Yes, they only shipped 80,000 units worldwide between April 1 and June 30).

Seriously, this article isn't anything to get excited about. The same info has already been available for months now in each company's public financial reports, and in Nintendo's case, is more current than what's in this article.