xbox 360 won 2006 holiday sales battle

January 2nd, 2007 post a comment (2) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob

Inching out the newly released Nintendo Wii, and thoroughly trouncing Sony’s troubled Playstation 3, it looks like Microsoft took the lead in holiday sales with their Xbox 360 console in the U.S. market over the 2006 holiday season.

In a televised report on CNBC, market research firm NPD, reported the following preliminary numbers for the period between November 1, 2006 and December 25, 2006:

Xbox 360: 2.0 million units
Wii: 1.8 million units
PS3: 750k units

Granted, this doesn’t mean that Microsoft has won the so-called “console war”, just a single battle. The Wii is certainly in the game, and as more games emerge, the PS3 still could be a contender in 2008 and beyond.

[via The Register]

January 2nd, 2007 post a comment (2) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob

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1. ManChicken | January 4th, 2007 at 9:46 am

I’m happy with Xbox 360 and Wii being major contenders here. As long a Blu-ray dies a horrible death of doom and unprofitability I’m happy.

Wii’s a fun system. My family could not keep their hands off of it this Christmas season. Madden 2007 on Wii is an OUTSTANDING game.
2. Mr. Obvious | January 5th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

Well let’s see, the 360 has been out for like what? 2 years now?

Ps3 and Wii lauched when? A month ago?

Wii had how many units avaliable world wide? 4 million?

So that’s like a million for each region right?

Ps3 has had like 500k units avaliable worldwide? So wouldn’t people expect the 360 to “trounce” the ps3 in sales?

Holiday 2007 is when the REAL war starts, Ps3 will have had their Killer App, MGS4 released by the holidays, and nintendo will have their heavy Hitters out by then as well. If you think Microsoft doesn’t have anything up their sleeves as well for Holiday 2007 you are retarded, they will release their main heavy hitter, Halo 3 by Fall ‘07.

I expect Sony to have a breakout year and when the battle in 2007.