Was the Halo Effect an Illusion?
As can happen the sales data for September 2007 has been modified as more and more stores report their information. Because of this early reporting is often close but inaccurate.
It was widely reported that Xbox 360 console sales beat out the Wii in September based on massive sales of Halo 3. Now that sales numbers have settled we find that Microsoft was not able to knock the Wii off the top of the mountain.
As you can clearly see in the graphic above (from VGChartz) the one week where Xbox 360 sales almost beat out the Wii, they did not. They missed the Wii sales figure by about 5K consoles. Yes, on the week of September 29, 2007 (one of Microsoft's best weeks for the Xbox 360) they did not surpass the Wii in sales.
This makes me wonder. Will we see a rush of reporting on this new piece of data or will people be left to think that the Xbox 360 did better than it actually did?
Don't forget that there is only one console that beats the Wii in week-to-week sales and that is the Nintendo DS.
hehe, all that work for nothing. I’m pretty sure everyone was talking about North America sales… NPD numbers = North America (Canada and U.S.)
oh and the 360 did beat the Wii in NA according to NPD.
Thanks for all the hard work!
How accurate is vgchartz.org?
As usual the numbers will be hidden just like the true Live subscriber numbers or the true user base of the xbox 2. 7 million Live users is pretty pathetic if you consider 20 ml xbox sold + 12 million xbox 2 sold. Also the user base is largly in question as alot of users own 2 – 4 consoles. Not to mention the whole RRoD issue, disk scratching issues that somehow got past consumer reports and every consumer product watch group. No product recall just FUD from MicroSoft.
NPD data for September already came out weeks ago, and NPD data was way more accurate than VG Chartz — even VG Chartz admitted that.
NPD data said Xbox 360 beat Wii in September.
Since the Wii is being touted as the casual gaming machine, and it’s the cheapest , and the 360 and PS3 are less casual gamer friendly, it only makes sense that they’re selling more.
These charts just seem to prove the point that a more expensive console is going to sell less…the numbers go down as the price goes up. DS, Wii, 360, PS3.
So the only thing of real interest is how much better the 360 is doing than the PS3, seeing as how the PS3 is so much newer, and not really that much more expensive than the 360. (Compared to 360 vs. Wii prices.)
So coming within 5,000 units of a console that is $150 cheaper is nothing to be ashamed of, I say.
250*245,784 = 61,440,000
350*240,733= 84,256,550
So significantly more money was flowing to 360’s than Wii’s at that point, assuming half of all buyers bought Cores and the other half bought Elites, approximately. (Don’t know the exact prices but 350 as an average sounds right.)
If I were in Microsoft’s shoes I’d be far from upset.
Yah lets go by what vgchartz says??? They’re really known for their accuracy!!!
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Who even gives a flying fuck!! In two years the 3shitty and Wii will be obsolete!! With only the PS3 left standing. Microsoft probably bought all those 3shittys in September anyways, Halo3 was shit on a stick thrown with a brick!!
It’s funny that the article says that the only console that outsells the Wii week-to-week is the DS while there’s a chart right next to that paragraph which shows the PSP doing the same.
I sure won’t forget! No sir.
Microsoft took a giant shit on sony when they made the 360. Fuck the ps3 u fags!