Nintendo Wii outsells Xmas during resession!Researchers extraordaire NPD has just released its gaming console sales numbers for April and guess what? Nintendo took the number one and two slots in hardware sales, with the Wii having sold 714,200 units while the Nintendo DS sold 414,800 units. Third place went to the PSP with 192,700 units. These are staggering numbers and underscore the life in the gaming market, even in tougher economic times.
And while these numbers may be impressive, what's more impressive is that the Wii outsold the Playstation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, and Xbox 360
combined! Yikes!
The Xbox 360's strong performance on Black Friday wasn't enough to help Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) close the sales gap with rival Nintendo in the gaming console market, according to research group NPD.
In fact, Nintendo's red-hot Wii system outsold the Xbox by almost 3-to-1 in November. Wii shipments in the month totaled 2.04 million, while Xbox shipments came in at 836,000.Sony (NYSE: SNE)'s PlayStation 3 ranked a distant third, with shipments of just 378,000 units, said NPD.
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In the portable market, the Nintendo DS ranked first with 1.57 million shipments--easily topping the Sony PSP's 421,000 shipments.
Xbox 360's middling performance may come as a shock to Microsoft.
Last week, Redmond said sales of its Xbox 360 gaming and entertainment console increased 25% on Black Friday compared with last year's post-Thanksgiving shopping binge, and outpaced sales of PlayStation 3 3-to-1.