| 2007: It was neck & neck PlayStation vs Wii in the U.S |
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| by Mike Bantick | |
| Monday, 21 January 2008 | |
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The U.S, it is claimed, is Microsoft’s home ground, with the extensive game library of the Xbox 360 seemingly more orientated towards Western tastes, with contrasting floundering sales in Japan. Despite this, the Xbox 360 with 4.62 million units sold came in a distant third behind the Nintendo power house gaming hardware options. The world beating Nintendo hand-held, the DS entranced 8.5 million Americans, whilst the DS’s big brother the Wii swung into 6.29 million U.S households. Not to be outdone, the Sony behemoth is gathering momentum; the current generation consoles, the PlayStation 3 (2.56 million) and hand-held PlayStation Portable (3.82 million) were popular. Not as popular as their spiritual dad, the venerable PlayStation 2 however, which continued to sell well racking up 3.97 million. Ignoring the hand-held market for the moment, this meant that more PlayStation branded consoles headed indoors (6.53 million) than the Nintendo Wii, though Nintendo would be continuing to rub hands together with glee as the Wii is immensely more profitable than the expensive PS3. Given the popularity of hand-held consoles, with the new and slimmer PSP introduced last year, one could easily image Microsoft looking for a slice of the action as soon as possible. Watch this space. How about Software? What were the biggest games of 2007 for U.S consumers, click on to find out. |
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