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After more than a year of selling poorly compared to it’s competition – mainly due to 360’s price cuts last year and Wii’s ongoing momentum – Sony has finally managed to make the PS3 the best selling home console for the month. September 09 was an interesting month, in fact, as not only did the PS3 see a price drop (technically initiated in August), but also a release of a hardware revision known as PS3 Slim, which is smaller, cooler, uses less power, and all around great value for the cost of $299.
MS also came back with their own version of a price drop, by eliminating their Pro model and dropping their Elite model (with a PS3 Slim matching hard drive size of 120 GB) to $299 – and then offering a $50 rebate for the 2nd half of September. Their hdd-less Arcade mode stayed at $199. Nintendo, who went almost 3 years without any price drops for the Wii, finally caved at the end of September as well, lowering the Wii to $199 for the last 4 reporting days of the NPD results shown below, for September 09:
PlayStation 2 146.0K
PlayStation 3 491.8K
PSP 190.4K
Xbox 360 352.6K
Wii 462.8K
Nintendo DS 524.2K
HALO 3:ODST 360 MICROSOFT (CORP) Sep-09 1.52M 1
WII SPORTS RESORT W/ WII MOTION PLUS WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Jul-09 442.9K 2
MADDEN NFL 10 360 ELECTRONIC ARTS Aug-09 289.6K 3
MARIO & LUIGI:BOWSER’S INSIDE STORY NDS NINTENDO OF AMERICA Sep-09 258.1K 4
THE BEATLES:ROCK BAND* 360 MTV GAMES/ELECTRONIC ARTS Sep-09 254.0K 5
MADDEN NFL 10 PS3 ELECTRONIC ARTS Aug-09 246.5K 6
MARVEL:ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 2 360 ACTIVISION BLIZZARD (CORP) Sep-09 236.0K 7
BATMAN:ARKHAM ASYLUM* PS3 SQUARE ENIX INC (CORP) Aug-09 212.5K 8
GUITAR HERO 5* 360 ACTIVISION BLIZZARD (CORP) Sep-09 210.8K 9
THE BEATLES:ROCK BAND* WII MTV GAMES/ELECTRONIC ARTS Sep-09 208.6K 10
* means all versions, including limited editions and different bundle sets are grouped together.
Interestingly, Wii’s price drop for the last 4 days was enough to give it a boost to close the gap with the PS3, but not overcome it. I think I can predict Wii will be a monster in October though with the price drop being in effect for the whole month. Software wise Wii wasn’t the monster it has usually been the last few months – 360 was, especially with the new Halo game selling through the roof. That 360’s hardware sales are lagging so far behind Wii and PS3 shows that their multiple SKUs dancing around instead of properly dropping in price is confusing potential buyers. It is also good to see PS3’s Batman still selling so well – it’s a great game! Also interesting to see is the well promoted Beatles game beat Guitar Hero 5 in sales. I wonder if this will be a long term thing. I am also surprised to see 360’s music games selling better than the Wii’s, though that one I feel confident in predicting will turn around as the months go on. And of course, the DS outsells everything else.
October is also going to be an interesting month: Wii’s price drop’s full effect, the introduction of the PSP Go (technically it’s first couple of days were included in September, which doesn’t show much results here though), MS’s holiday bundling of a couple of games with the 360, and the release of Uncharted 2 – PS3’s killer title.
Another minor distinction was achieved, btw: Year to Date, 360 has a fair lead over the PS3, that may be hard to overcome; however, what has been overcome is the Year to Date lead that the Wii had on the 360 PS3 combined.
MS also came back with their own version of a price drop, by eliminating their Pro model and dropping their Elite model (with a PS3 Slim matching hard drive size of 120 GB) to $299 – and then offering a $50 rebate for the 2nd half of September. Their hdd-less Arcade mode stayed at $199. Nintendo, who went almost 3 years without any price drops for the Wii, finally caved at the end of September as well, lowering the Wii to $199 for the last 4 reporting days of the NPD results shown below, for September 09:
PlayStation 2 146.0K
PlayStation 3 491.8K
PSP 190.4K
Xbox 360 352.6K
Wii 462.8K
Nintendo DS 524.2K
HALO 3:ODST 360 MICROSOFT (CORP) Sep-09 1.52M 1
WII SPORTS RESORT W/ WII MOTION PLUS WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Jul-09 442.9K 2
MADDEN NFL 10 360 ELECTRONIC ARTS Aug-09 289.6K 3
MARIO & LUIGI:BOWSER’S INSIDE STORY NDS NINTENDO OF AMERICA Sep-09 258.1K 4
THE BEATLES:ROCK BAND* 360 MTV GAMES/ELECTRONIC ARTS Sep-09 254.0K 5
MADDEN NFL 10 PS3 ELECTRONIC ARTS Aug-09 246.5K 6
MARVEL:ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 2 360 ACTIVISION BLIZZARD (CORP) Sep-09 236.0K 7
BATMAN:ARKHAM ASYLUM* PS3 SQUARE ENIX INC (CORP) Aug-09 212.5K 8
GUITAR HERO 5* 360 ACTIVISION BLIZZARD (CORP) Sep-09 210.8K 9
THE BEATLES:ROCK BAND* WII MTV GAMES/ELECTRONIC ARTS Sep-09 208.6K 10
* means all versions, including limited editions and different bundle sets are grouped together.
Interestingly, Wii’s price drop for the last 4 days was enough to give it a boost to close the gap with the PS3, but not overcome it. I think I can predict Wii will be a monster in October though with the price drop being in effect for the whole month. Software wise Wii wasn’t the monster it has usually been the last few months – 360 was, especially with the new Halo game selling through the roof. That 360’s hardware sales are lagging so far behind Wii and PS3 shows that their multiple SKUs dancing around instead of properly dropping in price is confusing potential buyers. It is also good to see PS3’s Batman still selling so well – it’s a great game! Also interesting to see is the well promoted Beatles game beat Guitar Hero 5 in sales. I wonder if this will be a long term thing. I am also surprised to see 360’s music games selling better than the Wii’s, though that one I feel confident in predicting will turn around as the months go on. And of course, the DS outsells everything else.
October is also going to be an interesting month: Wii’s price drop’s full effect, the introduction of the PSP Go (technically it’s first couple of days were included in September, which doesn’t show much results here though), MS’s holiday bundling of a couple of games with the 360, and the release of Uncharted 2 – PS3’s killer title.
Another minor distinction was achieved, btw: Year to Date, 360 has a fair lead over the PS3, that may be hard to overcome; however, what has been overcome is the Year to Date lead that the Wii had on the 360 PS3 combined.
