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January Game Sales Explode, Wii Dominates
njkid1, as he does from time to time, passed us a link to a story on the GameDaily site. Today they're discussing the January NPD numbers for the games industry. In short, they're terrific. Software sales totaled $549 million for the month, up a staggering 53 percent over last year. Hardware sales were brisk as well, with the Wii selling around 436,000 units. Trailing behind were Microsoft and Sony, with 360 hitting 294,000 units sold and the PS3 selling 244,000 units. January had an extra week, which resulted in 'inflated' sales, but even after normalizing the data things were tremendous for the games industry in a month where there's normally a post-holiday slump.
Obviousley Sony was doomed to fail from the start. they had their short lived fame with PS1 and PS2. Blu-ray will fail just as betamax in the 80's, the adult film industry chose to go against beta, and have done the same with BD, which all elads to the death of PS3, on top of that not everyone has hdtv's just lying around, so less of a reason for the PS3. MS is doing remarkably well considering their unit has been out for a year, only so many people can purchase a 360, i would have expected sony to do better then a year old unit, but surprise they have not. woe is sony