Console sales update: Xbox 360 sales reach 19 million worldwide. Comparison to Wii and PS3

29 April 2008

Posted by:Ferry

The three consoles: Xbox 360, PS3, Wii Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices division results for its third quarter show that global sales of Xbox 360 have now surpassed the 19 million mark. This means a 74% increase compared to a year ago.

Microsoft said that it shipped 1.3 million consoles during the last three months compared to 500,000 in the same period in 2007. The company added that it had shipped 7.5 million consoles the past nine months. (Officially they said 7.5 million during the first nine months of the fiscal year, and 5.9 million a year ago, respectively.)

The official numbers of this 7th console generation:
Wii: 24.45 million sold as of March 31, 2008. [1]
Xbox 360: 19 million sold as of April 25, 2008. [2]
PlayStation 3: 13 million sold as of April 21, 2008. [3]

[1] The Wii sales number is almost one month behind the rest; Nintendo has stated they are currently producing 1.8 million Wiis each month in an attempt to meet high demand.

[2] In January, Microsoft reported it had sold 17 million consoles overall, a figure that hit 18 million a month later. So they are selling 1 million Xbox 360s monthly.

[3] EA Games predicts that 9.5 to 11.5 million PlayStation 3s will be sold in North America and Europe in 2008. So sales of Sony’s console are expected to go up to nearly 1 million a month as well, but at this moment seem to be half that.

Categories: News, PS3 News, Wii News, Xbox 360 News

1985 gamer

nintendo has just began to domanaet the maret i seen what xbox 360 has to offer on it’s consel and it s*cks b*lls but the wii is revoloushenysed the gameing consept and how wii play games i’m not replying to this
http://videogamesblogger rodney

dude for one get your spelling right, secondly u are wrong xbox 360 rules if u tell me, xbox live and it has great games. the graphics are good and its more powerful than wii, plus the wii just revouluionize the controller not the overall gaming system, if u tell me thats dume where as xbox even playstaion are smart and looking to revolutionize the overall console, so the wii may be selling more but only because its cheap and its different (somewhat) but overall xbox beats all of the game console clearly, sales or not and it will win its the future just wait for the portable just wait, and bye the way start saving up because xbox’s cost at least $299 so if u want to keep up with real games or gamers get one, plus xbox got better games peace!!!!!!
http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2007/03/13/next-xbox-720-to-launch-in-2011-2012-according-to-microsoft.htm#comment-439339 JQ

This info is now out of date. JQ
Matt Stephan

xbox 360 is fare better then any other console in the world

and i dnt think they should make a 720 for another 6 years
redcricket

first off post one AND two. How about learning to spell before posting. Holy crap bros, it seems you guys skipped school just to play video games. This does not bode well for your futures. In the end its just a game! Go Xbox 360!!!!

PS Post one it is spelled: revolutionized, market, console, dominant, concept
xbox360legend

the Xbox 360 im my opinion is the best since it has way more games and xbox live kicks ps3 networks ass. some people say its crap coz u hav to pay for xbox live but 1 ps3 is £299 but an xbox 360 is £159 and 1 year of live is £10 and 500 microsoft ponts is £50 and cod 5 is £30 which makes £240 so its cheaper to get a 360, a year of live, 500 microsoft points, and a good game than to buy 1 ps3!