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November NPD Stats – Not good news for Sony

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The November NPD sales stats are in and it’s not good news for Sony. 

For clarification NPD is the company that tracks the American console sales and November is always the second most important month of the year in regards to console sales figures… So how did it go for everyone?

Wii: 2.04m(154%)
DS: 1.57m (220%)
Xbox 360: 836K (125%)
PSP: 421K (118%)
PS3: 378K (99%)
PS2: 206K (51%)

The biggest surprise here is that the PS2 is once again selling bucket loads this Christmas, when will people realise that the PS2 has passed its prime?

But back to this generation’s figures, it looks like the 360 is on its way to killing the PS3 this Christmas in the US and the Nintendo Wii isn’t even blinking in the face of it’s constant critics calling it a fad. 

Believe it if you will, but this fad is going to steam roll every other console this Christmas and these statistics have now made that a fact.

Source: Joystiq

In the immortal words of Queen “Wii are the champions, my friend”, yes it’s Friday afternoon and time to go home… have a great weekend my friends.

Last Updated: December 12, 2008

5 Comments

  1. RivaZA

    December 12, 2008 at 16:25

    What I want to know is who the hell are all these people buying the Wii? There has to be like what 2, 3 decent games on it? Don’t people do any research before buying a product?
    Or do they buy it because they saw a bunch of tools in an advert clumsily flailing their arms about whilst wearing smiles that would be more at home on a lewd sex offender?

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  2. ewie

    December 12, 2008 at 17:04

    They buy it for wii sport, perfect game to get families to play together again,

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  3. ferver

    December 12, 2008 at 17:54

    You people clearly have never played the wii. Yes, it lacks in hardcore games but there are still a couple outthere and i never had so much fun on any other console.
    And, 2009, will be the year of the hardcore games: MadWorld (Whoaaa!!), The conduit (with the Wii Zapper and the Motion Plus woaaahh!!), House of the dead OverKill, Monster Hunter 3, Castlevania Judgement, and others.
    I love it and I will never regret buying it. I bought the Ps3 only for two games FF13 and God of war 3

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  4. Lupus

    December 12, 2008 at 17:56

    And then it sits in the closet for aaaaaaages

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  5. ocelot

    December 12, 2008 at 19:09

    “The biggest surprise here is that the PS2 is once again selling bucket loads this Christmas, when will people realise that the PS2 has passed its prime?” Sony are still supporting the PS2. Persona 4 (which is the best JRPG released this year on ANY platform) came out this month and there are even titles coming out next year.

    I think MS will be a bit worried about the Wii. Their arcade unit is around the same price yet the Wii totally killed it.

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