Console sales up 10%, Wii Fit most popular
U.S. sales of video games, consoles, and accessories slowed in February, market research figures showed. The industry posted a 10% revenue increase over the same month a year ago to $1.47 billion, the NPD Group said. In January, sales at U.S. retailers rose 13% from a year ago to $1.33 billion. Nevertheless, the industry as a whole remained strong. “The U.S. video-games industry continues to post strong year-over-year comps despite the tough economy,” NPD analyst Anita Frazier said in an e-mail sent to media late Thursday. “Unit sales increased even more than dollar sales did, reflecting a slightly lower average retail price for all categories as compared to last year.” Sales of consoles rose 11% to $532.7 million. The Nintendo Wii and the company’s portable console, the DS, continued to lead the market in February in terms of unit sales at 753,000 and 588,000 units, respectively.
While unit sales of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 were considerably less, both sold relatively well. “The Xbox 360 realized its biggest non-holiday sales month, save for September 2007, when the Halo 3 [video-game] release brought in a large group of new owners,” Frazier said. On the software side, U.S. video-game fans took advantage of lower prices and bought nearly 20 million games in February, a 14% rise from a year ago. The average retail price for games fell 4% from last year, NPD said. The latest version of the longtime video-game franchise Street Fighter was second in sales for the month, behind the Wii Fit with Balance Board. Capcom USA sold 446,000 units for the Xbox 360 and 403,000 units for the PS3. Nintendo sold 644,000 units of Wii Fit, which only runs on the Wii console. NPD rates sales by individual platforms.
Source: Infoweek
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Consoles LOL. PS3, Xbox, wii, will always be inferior to PC. They are like girly little kids toys.
True!….True!
very, very, very profitable kids-toys
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i used to be a pc gamer, but i switched to xbox 360; because it's more social: it's in my living room, friends can join in. the games are great and a gamer's pc is also about $2500 more expensive. not really worth it IMO to play crysis warhead and few other elite pc games.
Consoles are nicer ONLY on the multi player sports games. All you need is a decent PC. I bought this rig over a year ago and it still runs every game good enough @ max res on my 65" 1080p tv. q6600, 4gig ddr2 ram, 850w psu, 2 P/N: 512-P3-N808-AR in sli. (look'em up
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Bought it over a year ago but at what price? PSU alone probably cost half the price of a 360.
The point is for as little as £100 anyone can play any of the latest games. PC gaming is great if you want slightly higher res games but at the cost of some serious depreciation and huge initial outlay.
Erm, hang on just a damned minute. Isn't piracy meant to be putting these companies out of business. That's quite a yearly profit during these times of strife… oh well, on with the downloads..
its been proven that piracy has little or no effect on sales.
Yep, we can divide ppl in 2 groups
PIRATES
and
DUMMIES
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