There’s something reassuring about the cold, lifeless and emotionally dead hardware sales numbers that come out every month here in North America. People can argue about the meaning of an executive’s quote all day, or whether a future system will do well, but statistics are simple and effective. With that said, here are last month’s surprising hardware sales for North America:
1.) Nintendo DS – 403,435
2.) PlayStation 2 – 306,517
3.) Xbox 360 – 259,458
4.) Game Boy Advance – 177,145
5.) PlayStation Portable – 153,353
6.) GameCube – 42,286
7.) Xbox – 6,495
I think you can officially start ignoring the whiney PSP owners, regardless of what new and inventive cuss words they jealously sling your way as your play Mario or Star Fox on the subway — the portable console war, such as it was, is over. And how about that GameCube, huh?
I was wondering where the PSP was then I found it. But wow.. 250k units apart. At least the cube is selling more then the box right?
Even the gba is selling more than the psp
The GBA sells that many units in a month? Seems kinda high.
The GBA, who knew? I guess John Basedow isn't the only who lives on these days.
Well, I guess this report answers the question Blake posted on Tuesday, "Should the GBA just die?", right?I mean, if the GBA is still selling better than the PSP, doesn't that automatically gives a resounding "NO!" response to that question? Or should the PSP just die, too??
How bout that gamecube? Yeah… its still getting blown out of the water by the PS2.The Xbox isn't even a factor anymore since it has been dead since the 360 came out, so comparing the GC to the Xbox is rather pointless.Hopefully the momentum continues for the DS.
The comparison of GC to Xbox is purchasers that don't buy a second or third console till it is nearly dead.I'll sort of be one of those ppl, I'll be re-purchasing a PS2. My original BlimpLine PS2 broke on me after about 6 months so I'll be repurchasing after the PS3 forces another PS2 price cut.
Well, don't forget, though the psp's games all suck, the DS's games can scarcely stand up to it's emulators and homebrew. Poor sony. If it keeps making it so we can't play our homebrew, nobody'll buy the new ones, and if they make it so we can, people pirate actual psp games.