PlayStation 3 Outsells Xbox 360 Once Again

PlayStation 3 Outsells Xbox 360 Once Again

Techtree News Staff, Aug 15, 2008 1916 hrs IST

July NPD results are in and once again Nintendo is in the lead, while the PS3 beats the Xbox 360 in the U.S. market

July 2008 NPD results are in and the industry status quo is maintained. The Nintendo systems are in the lead, and Sony's PS3 beats the Microsoft Xbox 360 for yet another month.

The NPD Group is a retail-tracker for the gaming market in the U.S.

Here are the highlights, thanks to NPD, via NeoGAF:

Hardware (in thousands)
-Nintendo DS 608K
-Wii 555K
-Playstation 3 225K
-PSP 222K
-Xbox 360 205K
-Playstation 2 155K

While the PS3 is leading, the margin of the lead is not significant enough to catch up to the Xbox 360 headstart in the U.S. any time soon. Incidentally, this makes the year-to-date (YTD) and lifetime-to-date (LTD) numbers of the consoles in the U.S. market as follows:

YTD in US: (in millions)
-Nintendo DS 3.795
-PlayStation Portable 1.704
-Xbox 360 1.546
-Sony PS3 1.833
-Nintendo Wii 4.038

LTD in US: (in millions)
-Nintendo DS 21.385
-PlayStation Portable 12.216
-Xbox 360 10.67
-Sony PS3 5.081
-Nintendo Wii 11.407

Top 10 Selling Software (in thousands)
01. 360 NCAA FOOTBALL 09 ELECTRONIC ARTS JULY 2008 397.6K
02. WII FIT W/ BALANCE BOARD NINTENDO OF AMERICA MAY 2008 369.6K
03. NDS GUITAR HERO: ON TOUR ACTIVISION JUNE 2008 309.7K
04. WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA FEB 2007 284K
05. PS3 NCAA FOOTBALL 09 ELECTRONIC ARTS JULY 2008 242.5K
06. 360 SOUL CALIBUR IV NAMCO BANDAI GAMES OF AMERICA JULY 2008 218.9K
07. WII MARIO KART W/ WHEEL NINTENDO OF AMERICA APRIL 2008 174.5K
08. WII ROCK BAND SPECIAL ED BUNDLE MTV GAMES/ELECTRONIC ARTS JUNE 2008 165.8K
09. PS3 SOUL CALIBUR IV NAMCO BANDAI GAMES OF AMERICA JULY 2008 155.8K
10. 360 SID MEIER'S CIVILIZATION REVOLUTION TAKE 2 INT. CORP. JULY 2008 147.6K

Source: NPD via NeoGAF

Last month's NPD results can be found here.



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