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Windows 7 more popular than Harry Potter in the UK

Matthew Hopson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:18:00 +0000

Boy wizard Harry Potter has been outsold by Windows 7, as Microsoft's latest operating system becomes the biggest pre-order of all time, according to Amazon. More pre-orders of Windows 7 were sold within the... Read more...

Blu-ray outsells HD-DVD in U.S. for first 9 months

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:20:18 +0000

Home Media Research, a division of Home Media Magazine, has found that from January 1 through September 30, total U.S. sales of Sony's Blu-ray discs amounted to 2.6 million units compared with Toshiba's 1.4 million... Read more...

Japan: Wii outsells PS3 'six to one' in June

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:38:28 +0000

According to Enterbrain, a Japanese publisher that tracks console sales, Nintendo's Wii console outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 in Japan last month by six to one: 270,974 Wii consoles to 41,628 PS3s. Can it get worse?... Read more...

Nintendo Wii Outsells Xbox 360, PS3 During February

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:53:17 +0000

Market research firm NPD Group reports that during February, consumers bought 335,000 Wii consoles, while Xbox 360 sold 228,000 units, followed by PlayStation 3 with 127,000. The Wii is simply the cheapest console and it... Read more...

Sony Gives Blu-Ray Discs for Free: Blu-Ray Outsells HD DVD

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:12:34 +0000

According to a study by market tracking agency Nielsen VideoScan, Blu-ray movie sales have surpassed HD DVD movies sales in the USA thanks to Sony bundling some PlayStation 3 game machines with a BD movie... Read more...

PS3 outsells 360 at launch period

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:16:41 +0000

Sony today announced that they have sold 1 million Playstation 3s in North America since the launch of the console six weeks ago. That makes the Playstation 3 the fastest selling home console Sony has... Read more...

Xbox 360 Outsells Five Year Old PS2

Joe Cashman — Sun, 21 May 2006 21:27:30 +0000

Xbox fans are touting the success of Microsoft's latest console after it outsold the PS2 last month, five months after the release of the console. Despite the PS2 now being five years old in the... Read more...

AMD Outsells Intel in Retail Stores

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:08:33 +0000

Thanks to amitpagarwal and Hurmoth for their contributions. According to market researcher Current Analysis, AMD processor based notebooks and desktops outsold Intel 49.8 percent to 48.5 percent in the month of October. ... Read more...

Xbox officially outsells PS2 in US

Thu, 27 May 2004 15:14:55 +0000

Citing NPD numbers, Microsoft declares its console had a 51-percent market share in April 2004. In the time before E3, many analysts were saying that, as a result of its $149 price... Read more...

GameCube outsells PS2 in the USA following pricecut

Marcel Klum — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:15:16 +0000

Nintendo has shot to the top of the class in America, with the GameCube outselling the PS2 by 20 per cent to become the best selling home console in the USA last week following a... Read more...