Some November Sales Stats in for Games

Looks like Wii sold out at 350,000 units while Microsoft Xbox has come in at some 310,000 units, and we are still waiting on the Sony Numbers that are yet to be released, but Todd Bishop is thinking that they came in third in what is shaping up to be the average way that sales are going. Wii wins, Microsoft takes it usual second place, but the sad part of the story is how Sony squandered their first place major lead, even with a big price cut.

Sony hasn’t disclosed the raw number of PlayStation 3 units it sold last week. (A Sony spokeswoman says it will give those numbers when NPD Group stats come out in mid-December.) The company did say that PlayStation 3 hardware sales were up 245 percent last week, when compared with the same week last year, among the top 10 North American retailers. This morning, Microsoft said the Xbox 360 still outsold the PS3 two-to-one last week, according to “estimates from top retailers.” Source: Seattle PI

The interesting part is that while Sony disputes the numbers, you would have thought that with comments like that from Microsoft, that Sony would have been all over that, rather than the tired line of “we don’t disclose numbers until the NPD results come out”. While Microsoft and Nintendo are crowing over major sales, Sony is somewhere in the background hugging the tired line.

In the mean time, this also gives Microsoft and others more room to create buzz, which could translate into sales. We will know more in mid December, but honestly people would have thought that Sony would say something, and that if it was the 245% increase (meaning a 100K unit would come in at 245K units sold, something to note) they will still lag in 3rd place, even with the 40 gig version on store shelves.

They need a much bigger turn around.

11/29/2207 - interesting update on PS3 outselling in Japan in November here.