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American Hardware and Software Chart for Week Ending July 19th, 2008

VGChartz reports that their estimate for American hardware and software chart for week Ending July 19th, 2008 is as follows:

Total Hardware: [Last Week #]

Wii: 159,292 (+25%) [127,354]
DSL: 152,241 (-9%) [167,205]
360: 101,967 (+111%) [48,398]
PSP: 77,207 (+9%) [71,092]
PS3: 58,145 (-22%) [74,626]
PS2: 37,245 (+18%) [31,537]

Top 10 Software:

1 NCAA Football 09 (360) 290,627 290,627 [NEW]
2 Wii Sports (Wii) 159,292 12,956,112
3 NCAA Football 09 (PS3) 124,663 124,663 [NEW]
4 Mario Kart Wii (Wii) 84,951 2,631,086
5 Wii Play (Wii) 77,134 6,692,795
6 NCAA Football 09 (PS2) 71,288 71,288
7 Guitar Hero: On Tour (DS) 64,525 566,805
8 Wii Fit (Wii) 60,444 1,403,982
9 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3) 47,707 1,044,378
10 Battlefield: Bad Company (360) 40,501 427,639

Other New Releases:

11 NCAA Football 09 All-Play (Wii) 37,183 37,183 [NEW]
18 Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1 (Wii) 30,906 30,906 [NEW]

Software Totals: [Last Week Total]

360: 1,172,174 (+31%) [897,260] Tie Ratio: 9.27
Wii: 1,089,920 (+20%) [906,285] Tie Ratio: 6.19
DSL: 993,109 (0%) [991,077] Tie Ratio: 4.35
PS3: 571,747 (+10%) [517,646] Tie Ratio: 6.45
PS2: 425,420 (+14%) [372,316] Tie Ratio: n/a
PSP: 256,700 (+17%) [219,909] Tie Ratio: 4.02
Cyrus365 - contributor
Published: 523 days 15 hours ago | Rumors | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | Wii | Sony PSP | Nintendo DS | PlayStation 2
 
 

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1 Poor Xbots | 523 days 17 hours ago - comment has been reported as SPAM -
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RememberThe357 - 523 days 16 hours ago
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PikkonX - 523 days 15 hours ago
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That's not really true at all. Anytime VGChartz is posted, it gets ridiculed by fans on both sides of the "war".
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Scar 360WA - 523 days 15 hours ago
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Here's a better question. Why are your comments still allowed in the gamer zone? That way please---------------->
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creeping judas - 523 days 15 hours ago
1.6 - Sorry Pikk
but generally for the last 7 months, with PS3 having posted on VG charts better sales then the 360 the attacks have been quite subdued???

but now a big win for 360, and peeps need to CAPITALIZE their hatred for VG charts!!!!

you just gotta remember this is a fanboy site, and if youre not on the winning side then you're on the wrong side.

i cant wait for the real News For Gamers website!!!!!
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red_ring_of_death - 523 days 15 hours ago
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LOL
RELAX THIS IS ONLY 1 WEEK IN THE USA
THEY HAD A PRICE DROP
ITS NOTHING
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PikkonX - 523 days 15 hours ago
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@1.6
Yeah you're right. Looking back at past VGChartz posts, I see that people on both sides still doubt the numbers, but not to the degree of what happens when 360 is in the lead. It's amazing how fast this site has turned around. Last year at this time, it was a disaster zone if you came here as a PS3 fan, but since January of this year it's been completely the opposite.
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butterfinger - 523 days 15 hours ago
1.9 - There's no reason to report this as fake...
we all know how crappy VGChartz is. We also know by now to wait for NPD numbers if we really care. Owning a PS3 and 360, I honestly could care less. I would prefer that they both sell at a similar rate from here on out so as to keep the competition level very high between the two heavyweights. When the competition is neck and neck, it can only be good for us, the consumers.
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PooPooPlatter - 523 days 15 hours ago
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"but now a big win for 360"

It is amazing to see how much people will believe numbers because they want them to be true.

Here are my more accurate week sales numbers for Week Ending July 19th, 2008
PS3 101,967
360 58,145

Look! It typed a bunch of random digits in the 100s,10s,and 1s digits to make it look like they are real numbers!

What a 'big win' for the PS3 this week. High five Sony!
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thePatriot - 523 days 12 hours ago
1.12 - did the price-cut go in effect
that week? I thought pricecut is comming next week.
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sushipoop - 523 days 17 hours ago
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Oh for the love of the god can we please just stop approving all this crap from VGChartz? They overestimate 360 sales.
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uxo22 - 523 days 13 hours ago
2.1 - Wow
Look how many people have reported this story as fake. This is crazy, perhaps "poor xbots" should be reported as spam.

Anyway, kinda stupid how worked up this guy is getting over this vgchartz info.

This story will not last, "THEY" will see to it that it gets removed. Kinda scary, that it bothers "THEM" so much.
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Ben1054 - 523 days 8 hours ago
2.2 - omg
just because 360 is selling more now, its fake
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Wildarmsjecht - 523 days 17 hours ago
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The price reduction to bring out the new SKU is definately doing it's job to help the 360.
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Wildarmsjecht - 523 days 17 hours ago
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I agree. I don't see it being a consecutive weekly thing so that they'll sell 400k next month, but it's a nice little bump. But I don't believe it'll last long at all.
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Dark vader - 523 days 16 hours ago
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Yea i expect the 360 to outsell the ps3 due to the firesale, but the question is by how much.
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PooPooPlatter - 523 days 15 hours ago
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"The price reduction to bring out the new SKU is definately doing it's job to help the 360. "

You realize that those numbers are just some teenage Xbox fan typing numbers into a computer...right?
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creeping judas - 523 days 15 hours ago
3.5 - PooPoo
can you prove what you're spouting about???

if you really feel that it's a teenager, then please prove yourself????
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PooPooPlatter - 523 days 15 hours ago
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The kid who runs the site calls himself ioi. He use to post his fake numbers on console messageboards until he was permabanned for his garbage and went off and created vgchartz so he could continue putting out fake/inflated 360 sales numbers without interference.

People can't honestly think that some little website has the resources to:

1) Track retailers who sell console hardware and software

2) Do so in large enough quantity to get meaninful data and actually have stores willing to share their sales data with some little website or actually have the time and man power to visit enough stores across the country every week

3) Do all of this for essentially free for what NPD charges game companies for

4) And even more, do it for all major console regions. Something that even big paid for retail research firms can't do or handle

5) And finally and most ridiculously do it every week instead of every month like NPD does

It's just some little kid Xbox fan typing numbers into his computer. Make the 360 ones as high as he can get away with. Make the PS3 ones as low as he can get away with. Weeeee!!!

What a loser.
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butterfinger - 523 days 15 hours ago
3.7 - @ creeping judas
To be fair, VGC can't prove one thing about any of their numbers:P Even if it's not a teenager, they are still made up numbers (estimates).
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uxo22 - 523 days 13 hours ago
3.8 - @poo poo
So, way wasn't this kid making the 360 numbers higher than the PS3 for the past 3 or more months. Why would such a 360 fan only do it this week?

Stop whining.
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DaTruth - 523 days 7 hours ago
3.9 - NPD
Because the NPD comes out and blows his numbers away. Which happens on the regular. Last 3 months he did say xbox was winning.
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Cyrus365 - 523 days 17 hours ago
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I can see people trying not to approve this story this week, especially considering VGChartz numbers have 360 2x the PS3 sales.
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The gaming GOD - 523 days 17 hours ago
5 - I can care less what they show for numbers
January and February vgchartz had 360 destroying the ps3 in U.S. numbers.

Yet when NPD time came around, those numbers were different.

So as usual, they are "assuming" numbers. And they are so high because they "assume" people are jumping on the price break

And as usual, if the NPD shows their numbers to be off (sometimes WAY off), vgchartz won't even bother to correct them
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PooPooPlatter - 523 days 15 hours ago
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Vgchartz little game is to:

Massively inflate the weekly 360 sales numbers

Throw a fit about how their 'data' is actually more reliable than NPD when the real numbers come out

Adjust the numbers somewhat but still keep the inflated 360 sales, just less so

Once a quarter when the companies report shipments do a massive correction before everyone realizes that the 360 sold > 360 shipped

That way the teenage Xbox fan at vgchartz can keep fake sales numbers giving the impression the 360 is selling much, much better than it really is every week in the headlines. And no one ever posts articles(or notices) when he is forced to do the quarterly shipment correction.

This why the numbers don't seem to add up and many people can't believe the PS3 is only 4.5 million or so behind the 360 now - because they literally DON'T add up.
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pumpkinpunker - 523 days 15 hours ago
5.2 - lol poo poo
And I thought vgchartz was run by Wii fanboys. Thanks for the hot tip!
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Dark vader - 523 days 17 hours ago
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meh vchart = crap
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Dark vader - 523 days 17 hours ago
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Vchart had the ps3 losing on may januray and february and when npd came out it was the other way around.
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masterofpwnage - 523 days 15 hours ago
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why da big jump of 360.

imean wtf.

is this fake or something imean, there wasnt anything big release or maybe because it is mico homeplace
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JVIDICAN - 523 days 15 hours ago
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there wass a pricecut/fire sale(getting rid of 20GB stock)
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pumpkinpunker - 523 days 15 hours ago
8.2 - it was the price drop.
they dropped the price of the 20gb 360 by $50 to phase them out.

These numbers aren't a huge surprise. The X360 is still the console to buy besides the Wii in North America despite recent gains by the PS3.
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Expy - 523 days 15 hours ago
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They're phasing out the 20GBs.
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JVIDICAN - 523 days 15 hours ago
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not really a price drop since once the 20GBs are sold the pricing returns to normal ;)
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Funky Town_TX - 523 days 15 hours ago
9 - Darn, M$ gets richer
Look at the 360 software sales.

M$ must be buying the games.
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Dark General - 523 days 15 hours ago
10 - It makes me a bit queezy
Seeing NCAA09 up there.
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11.1 Zerodin | 523 days 15 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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masterofpwnage - 523 days 15 hours ago
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why would he be bitter, he knows that the ps3 will be in the top in world wide month sales
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Jigsaw- - 523 days 15 hours ago
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no,what makes you think i am a ps3 fan and not a wii fan? facts are that 360 had 3rrod with 33% failure rate and the games do go to pc,check the game sites.
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Bzone24 - 523 days 14 hours ago
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Facts are that you are posting in the wrong section.
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AclayPS3 - 523 days 14 hours ago
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VG Chartz underestimated PS3 sales for the month of June a lot and the PS3 went on to go and sell a lot more than what they predicted.

I'm guessing that VG Chartz "thinks" that 360 sales will all of a sudden be higher just because of the Xbox 360 20GB model being lowered to $299, but the funny thing is that Microsoft has a Xbox 360 Arcade at $279, but the PS3 has been outselling the Xbox 360 almost every month of this year still.
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pumpkinpunker - 523 days 14 hours ago
14 - sony fanboys are so obnoxious
You guys seriously need to chill.

read their commments on this vgchartz post from 2 weeks ago:

http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/...

the statistical difference between vgchartz and npd numbers is not large enough for people to start throwing cyber temper tantrums. keep it to yourself. you're just setting yourself up for heartbreak anyway because it will almost take a small miracle for the PS3 to catch up to and surpass the X360. Even the gains the PS3 has made recently are a drop in the bucket compared to the 5 million console base lead that the X360 already has.

@AclayPS3

Yeah, too much time. the 360 is already halfway through it's lifecycle. And it hasn't even hit it's mass-market price of $199 which it will before the PS3. At this rate by the time the PS3 even gets a sniff of catching up to the X360 Microsoft will be releasing its new console and no gamers will really care when there is a console out with 2-3 gb of ram putting out graphics that make this gen look silly. I know I won't care about the 360 or PS3 at that point.

Like I said, don't sweat it. I never owned a playstation. I owned Nintendo products before buying the original xbox which ended up a third place console but I didn't care because it had awesome games like KOTOR, Halo, and Fable. Plus there was nothing comparable to xbox live at the time so I was happy.
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AclayPS3 - 523 days 14 hours ago
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It wont take a miracle for the PS3 to outsell the 360 because it's going to happen and it's just a matter of time.
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masterofpwnage - 523 days 14 hours ago
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shhh just leave them alone

360 fans are in denial now a days.

its ok keep telling ur self that like wat u guys did with the

"ps3 is only a blueray player, it has no games"

or the

"it will never outsell the 360 world wide, especially america"

imean ayy wat ever make u sleep at night
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Dark vader - 523 days 14 hours ago
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What are you talking about, vchart fail miserably all the time. I remember once upon a time the 360 had a 10 million lead, and now its all the way down to 5. What does that tell you? the ps3 is in fact gaining ground on the 360. if the ps3 cut the 360 lead in half in one and half year, in another 1.5 year the ps3 will catch up to the 360. And vchart has been proven wrong time and time again, they predicted that the 360 out sold the ps3 in the month of january, february and may, but when NPD number was released it showed that the ps3 was the one that came on top. And so far the ps3 has outsold the 360 in NA, where the 360 only hope of surviving relies at.
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