Aug 11 2008

Nintendo releases third-party sales chart, NPD clarifies some details

Posted by: in Xbox360

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

Nintendo has sent GameDaily a second chart to set the “record straight” that third-party titles do sell on the Wii — when comparing all consoles for the first 19 months. We contacted NPD to get a little more objective perspective on the matter and the company broke down some data and answered our questions about the true impact of Wii Play.

For the first 20-months at market, which is pretty much what the above graph shows, this is the breakdown:

Wii: 60 million software units total, 56% are third-party units or 33 million (Nov. ‘06 through June ‘08)
Xbox 360: 35 million software units, 84% third-party or 29 million (Nov. ‘05 through June ‘07)
PS3: 25 million software units, 82% third-party or 20 million (Nov. ‘06 through June ‘08)

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