Xbox 360 unit sales topped a minimum of 500K units in the month, probably more, with 200K in Black Friday week. Retailers attributed the increase to strong sales of Gears of War and “chronic press coverage” of supply constraints on PS3. Microsoft is now on track to sell through about 4.25 million units in the US in calendar 2006 with an installed base of around 5 million units.
As is well known, available quantity of PS3 was probably less than 150K units at launch, with a further 50K creeping into the channel in November. The low tie ratio for PS3 is blamed on eBay resale speculation with some retailers reporting less than 0.5 software units per hardware unit. Arcadia says a 600K total sell through for the year is reasonable.
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Last edited by denzilla on 07 Dec 2006 - 05:29
from the article:
Estimated November 2006 Stats
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Wii 500,000
PS2 500,000
PS3 150,000 (possibly 200,000)
Xbox360 500,000 (possibly 700,000)
(still only 2.7M, not sure where the other 500k went)
Estimated Calendar Year 2006 Stats
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Wii 1,300,000
PS3 600,000
PS2 4,700,000
XBox360 5,000,000
"The analyst bases its numbers on retail surveys, although these are less definitive than NPD’s numbers, due out later this week."
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