Jan 5, 2008

Santa casts his vote

I was wondering, some time ago, "What console shall Santa choose?".

Well, Santa's come and gone, and it's time to see what has happened to the console-wars during this period.
Here are the long-awaited (by some) results of the console-wars in the period of the Christmas Holidays (well, actually, Dec 2 - Dec 30):

ConsoleWiiPS3X360PS2
Total
3,869,926
2,081,432
1,894,335
1,958,444
America
1,505,926
728,434
1,169,933
904,540
Japan
885,678
211,931
32,743
77,251
Total Others
1,478,322
1,141,067
691,659
976,653
UK
412,114
206,017
274,454
144,126
France
387,149
148,265
73,981
99,997
Germany
224,068
169,023
41,672
134,139
Spain
88,394
170,757
19,309
134,380
Italy
58,396
119,413
31,932
146,761
Scandinavia
90,556
57,117
47,427
66,438
Other Europe
112,171
119,623
45,258
91,157
Australia
74,171
45,818
55,158
38,768
Other
31,303
105,034
102,468
120,887


Very interesting, what's noticeable (except the fact that the Wii is thrashing everyone else) is that PS3 has overall defeated the Xbox360 in total sales, overcoming the gap caused by the American buyers (the Xbox sold 1.6 times more consoles than the PS3) with bigger sales in Japan (PS3 : X360 = 6:1) and Europe (PS3 : X360 = 1.6:1).

We can notice that the PS2 is still holding on, still selling quite a few consoles, even more than the X360, after last Christmas when it was the nr.1 best-selling console (yes, better than the wii).

- source: VGChartz -

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