September NPD: PS3 sales up 134%
- Posted October 20th, 2009 at 03:46 EDT by Adam Dolge
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The month of September was a big month for Sony. The release of the new PlayStation 3 Slim drove sales past Nintendo and Microsoft’s consoles, outpacing its closest rival by some 30,000 units, according to data released today by the NPD Group. This marks the first time Sony’s console has outsold both its competitors in the U.S.
Sony pushed 491,800 PS3s in the month of September, outselling the Wii and the Xbox 360, which sold 462,800 and 352,600 respectively. PlayStation 3 sales were up by 134% from the previous month. In fact, all consoles saw decent sales increases in September.
“The industry managed a modest increase over September 2008, and generated the second bestselling September on record after 2007 when Halo 3 released and sold over 3 million copies that month,” said NPD’s Anita Frazier.
For the sixth straight month, the Nintendo DS outsold all consoles, but ultimately fell by 5% with 524,000 units sold. Compared to last September, the PS3 was the big winner as sales more than double compared to 2008. The month of September proved to offer a “modest increase” from previous years.
“All three console manufacturers enjoyed the impact of lower prices on unit sales as the PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360 realized an increase over August of 87%, 33%, and 31% respectively, on an average sales per week basis (keeping in mind September was a 5-week month compared to 4-weeks in August),” Frazier said.
* Nintendo DS - 524,200
* PlayStation 3 - 491,800
* Wii - 462,800
* Xbox 360 - 352,600
* PSP - 190,400
* PlayStation 2 - 146,000
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l5t7v9- 3:48am BST - October 20th, 2009
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2nd woo! good news! PS3 IT ONLY DOES EVERYTHING
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Sweet Tooth
- 5:24am BST - October 20th, 2009
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clearly the reason why BC support was dropped was becasue of the strong PS2 sales.
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lancekain |
ssj2k5- 5:57am BST - October 20th, 2009
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Now if they can keep this up and keep slapping down MS with heavy hitting titles like Uncharted while slashing the prices so fast that MS wont be able to catch up. When u realy take time to look at it MS's 360 realy cant even compare TO Sony's PS3. Now should MS buy out EA like whats bin buzzing round the net then there will be a strong chance than MS will run away with the leed and keep it that way for years to come.
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terminator12259 |
tacitassassin25- 12:09pm BST - October 20th, 2009
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Look at the PS2 holy crap. i just think these people are stupid though, just save up and get a PS3. i know sony doesnt care but still. good way to start off the early holiday season
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tristan88888888 |
Tristan88888888- 12:18pm BST - October 20th, 2009
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sadly this is most likely the first and last month well see this. at least when it comes to beating the wii. there is still hope for the 360.
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PSX_Legend |
KillZone3000- 12:25pm BST - October 20th, 2009
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Funny the PSPGo isnt helping very much with sales.haha Sony i hope you learned.
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masonmcglasson
- 1:22pm BST - October 20th, 2009
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I would like to know who are still buying 360's...
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Lefein |
Lefein- 4:59pm BST - October 20th, 2009
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All too common myth. People take NPDs numbers as bilbical truth. Not every retailer reports to NPD in the US. It's not like a government entity or anything. If Online sales were particularly strong, then it would throw the percentages way off of NPDs mark. Did you know that Wal-Mart has the largest volume game sales in the US? They do not officially report to NPD and keep their own sales data.
NPD is nowhere near an exact number of consoles sold for any system. That's always get a lol out of trolls whos ay things like "I guess the PSP didn't break 150,000 this month" or "I'm disappointed, the PS3 didn't sell 600,000 consoles"... The truth is they probably did.
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Sub-stance1 |
Ironranger6- 5:35pm BST - October 20th, 2009
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looks like everyone did pretty good to me.
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