The week ending 22nd December 2007 saw the greatest sales the video gaming business ever achieved in history. According to the data collected by VGchartz.com more than 5.4 million gaming systems and 21.6 million software units have been sold during the last week of the Christmas shopping season.
The sales leader was the Nintendo DS with more than 2.0 million units sold, breaking the PS2´s all time record of 1.7 million units in seven days.
Wii took the number two spot, selling in excess of 1.4 million units – outselling Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 combined.
The Playstation Portable continues to sell well with more than 725,000 units worldwide. On the other hand software sales for Sony's handheld continue to disappoint considering the big user base – only 880,000 software units were sold last week, a weekly attach rate of less than 1.3 games per system.
The HD systems sold head to head with the Xbox 360 having the edge in the US and the Playstation 3 outselling its competitor by a great margin in Japan (although selling at a disappointing slow rate of less than 60,000 units in the biggest week of 2007) and to a lesser extend in Europe.
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Even if Redfall were a good game, the closure of Hi-Fi Rush proves even that doesn't matter in the industry.
Yeah it would have mattered especially since their huge game that year wasn't all that it was cracked up to be remember redfail was almost heavily promoted and hyped not to the level of starfield but still more promoted than the average game.
There was still a decent marketing campaign behind the game I'm sure millions were spent advertising it on websites and I saw a few billboards and bus stop signs in real life
No it wouldn’t matter it wouldn’t bring in enough profit to offset their 100 billion dollar acquisition. It would maybe delay the inevitable by some months.
I would f*cking think so. Good games are what draws people to your platform. It’s why I adored the 360 era with Gears of War being one of the highlights for me. You make sh*t games and it just makes your platform that much worse and you start gobbling up studios I like and then killing them off it also makes me hate your platform as well… just sayin’
Unless the game would’ve been War Zone, or Fortnite level. No. Maybe even Hell divers 2 I doubt would’ve been enough.
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With people being able to install their own firmware on all PSPs now it's guaranteed that software sales would be low.
wii laughing straight to the bank..hahahhahahha.. fanboys dont understand that innovation beat upgrades....look what the ds is doing to the psp.. but they are too crazy to let it sink in... the wii will have the most variety and interesting games next year. ..and sales will be even more lopsided..then you'll eventually get it.
Well, Nintendo is waay in the lead. How about that.
I will say that, although I do have a Wii, as someone who finally got his own PS3 80GB during the holiday season sales have really stopped mattering so much. I probably AM rooting for Nintendo a bit, truth be told, but at this point I don't care how many PS3's or Wii's are sold because I already have them.
Right now I would be much more interested in Brawl news, or maybe the release of PS Home or the LBP beta. (Either of those would make a SLAMMIN' new year's surprise.)
My family owns all three of the current consoles. We enjoy playing the Wii far more than the 360 and PS3.
I just hope that the Nintendo Fans show way more class than the Sony and MS Fanboys.
so much for fad.. next year will get worse... and what gimmick.. sony try to copy it and release that garbage lair with the so call sixaxis aND NOW microsoft is planning on copying it too by releasing their own wiimotes... losers.. the original is always the best and sales numbers will keep showing that.