2008 Console Sales Analysis: Microsoft Down, Nintendo Up, Sony Mixed

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2008 Console Sales Analysis: Microsoft Down, Nintendo Up, Sony Mixed

Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Gaming, ZOMG

Gamasutra has done a fine analysis of The NPD’s 2008 console sales data. After busting out some sweet pie charts and breaking the information down, Gamasutra has concluded:

“The key observation here is that Microsoft’s market share, both in dollars and in percentage, contracted marginally. While Sony’s dollar share increased slightly, the total increase in the size of the industry actually resulted in a decrease in its percentage of the market.

All of that lost share, of course, has shifted to Nintendo’s column, and the company now appears headed for a nearly 50 percent share of the market in terms of its own hardware and game sales, plus third parties selling merchandise for it.”

It will be interesting to see how it all plays out in 2009. Will Nintendo take a dip since so many people already have DS and Wii systems? Or will the company continue to run wild with those two consoles and the DSi? Will Sony start to close the gap in a significant way this year because of all the exclusive, awesome content? Or will Microsoft take a bigger lead because of its already established base of great games now at a discount?

[Gamasutra]

Tags: Consoles, Microsoft, Nintendo, PlayStation 3, PS3, Sony, Video Games, Wii, Xbox 360

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2008 Console Sales Analysis: Microsoft Down, Nintendo Up, Sony Mixed

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