Here’s your chance to pretend to be surprised; Spurred by the relaunch of the console as a sleeker, more slender and most importantly more affordable model American PS3 sales have more than doubled from the previous month making it September’s top selling home console. Yeah, you read that right – It even managed to beat the Wii for the first …

Some Mr Pachter has become famous for making bold predictions that he never has to answer for and he’s at it again. According to his most recent analysis he expects the PS3 to have outsold the Xbox 360 in September and to continue doing so for the rest of the year due to it’s new price tag. The PS3 is …

Japans PS3 Slim sales figures have been released after it’s first full week and it is doing pretty well indeed. In the last week 151 743 PS3 Slims have been taken home in the land of the rising sun. The DSi is next in line with 60,419 then comes the PSP way back with 22,184 closely followed by the Wii …

6 Months. That’s how long the videogame industry has been really feeling the pinch of the global recession as far as sales are concerned. Particularly upset by the downturn is EA’s John Riccitiello, who said it is "discouraging that one of our highest-rated and best-marketed ‘Madden’ titles in years is facing strong headwinds." Despite EA’s obvious disappointment, Madden NFL 10 …

Unfortunately since neither Sony or Microsoft release sales figures for their downloadable titles it is really difficult to see which service is the better option for developers right now. But there are other ways to try and find usage stats and Gamasutra has been hard at work correlating these statistics. First up we have the top 10 chart for August …

Michael Pachter our gaming clairvoyant has been at it again and this time he is having a go at both Nintendo and Sony for sticking to their pricing structure for too long and negatively affecting the sales figures. Nintendo have unbelievably not dropped their price since they released the Wii even though they have sold the hardware at a profit …

Kotaku has been dragging through all the Sony financials since the PS3 was released and they can now announce exactly how many PS3’s have officially been sold according to Sony. VGChartz currently has the PS3 sales sitting at 23 million while the official Sony stats are sitting at 23.8 Million, which is pretty close really. Last Updated: August 3, 2009

The Wii is – without doubt – a sales powerhouse. It’s been dominating console hardware sales since its release, and hasn’t really showed any signs of slowing down. Until now, that is. Recent sales data from Gfk ChartTrack shows that whilst still ahead in lifetime sales (by a large, large margin) Wii sales have slowed in favour of the Xbox …