July NPDs Show PS3 Didn't Pull Ahead of 360

Despite last month's price drop, Sony's PlayStation 3 console just couldn't pull ahead of the Microsoft Xbox 360. Both, according to the latest NPD results, are still dwarfed by the continued domination of Nintendo's Wii console. 1up has the numbers for July: 'PlayStation 2 - 222k, PlayStation 3 - 159k, PSP - 214k, Xbox 360 - 170k, Wii - 425k, Nintendo DS - 405k, Game Boy Advance -- 87k.' For further commentary we can turn to Gamasutra, which offers a further breakdown on the numbers and some big picture perspective for this year: "Total industry revenue for 2007 presently stands at $7.0 billion. If there is no year-on-year growth for any month until the end of 2007, then the industry will finish the year with $14.5 billion in revenue, an increase in 16% over 2006. That's a reasonably pessimistic scenario ... If we start with our current $7.0 billion as of the end of July and continue at a rate of 40% growth through the end of the year, then we arrive at a total of $17.5 billion for all of 2007 ... If Wii supply constraints are eased, Halo 3 sells as well as expected, Sony's first-party software attracts more PS3 buyers, and Rock Band and Guitar Hero III are both hits, it seems likely that revenues may go above $18 billion. In this optimistic scenario, industry revenues during the single month of December 2007 would equal or surpass the total annual revenue from all of 1997."

Comments

And you called it wrong

[G Fab]

Sony has sold 2 PS3s for every XBOX 360 sold in July. Period. And that's without any good games. The XBOX already has the great lineup, but the system is boring. The PS3 hasn't even hit its stride yet.

Microsoft has to FUD out this statistic (which isn't counting most of the world because that's the only way the 360 can win) because they have run out of time to beat the PS3. And let me tell you, you would be an imbecile to buy a PS3 (the price certainly isn't going up, there will always be a 500$ version and eventually a much cheaper version). But you'd be even dumber to get a 360. It's just another clone of the playstation. Same basic idea. The PS3 really changes the idea of what a living room console is. So does the wii. The XBOX is just the cheapest possible way to get pretty graphics before breakdown. Not to even mention the fact that Sony's priority was just to establish bluray rather than win the console "war"

The Wii is competing against the PS2, and Sony already won that battle long ago (how's that original XBOX and Gamecube doing?). It's funny how Sony's winning with games in one market and winning despite not having any in another market.

Now I forget, is Sony selling three or four times as many consoles as microsoft these days? Oh yeah, it's really like five times as many if you count the PSP. And none of the Sony consoles are worth buying. But Microsoft just doesn't have what it takes.

Re:I'm really starting to wonder about the Wii

[Quila]

I can't play FPS games with a joystick anymore. Being able to accurately point and shoot, and being intuitively separated from movement with the nunchuck, the Wii remote has ruined it for me.