I knew Jesus was relatively short, but jeez.

Erwin211

WOW @ PS2.
I wonder if ps2 sales will positively influence future PS3 sale (due to brand loyalty or whatever) or is every PS2 sold a lost sales opportunity for the PS3?

TheHun

@caseypenk: I will agree with you that numbers are made to be fucked with but can you guess who's not making a healthy profit this December?

okenny :)

360 was sort of out of stock in some places

reptile168

Good numbers on all sides (yes, even the PS3). Congrats to everyone on the great sales numbers (and a special mention to Nintendo... Holy shits!)

2NinjasTapedTogether

@dadeisvenm:
In one month?

暇人

Ps2 is still truckin' on.

Viet

@EddyBrentwood:

If the developers are based in the USA and are able to sell enough games to turn a profit then it could be the case.

Consider the number of titles that were made by Japanese developers and released only in Japan up until quite recently, same for Europe.

aka Bitter

Kotaku's just being merciful. They didn't include Game Boy Advance numbers for the season.

Frank

@NeoAkira:
Nobody knows when Nintendo will release a handheld, the original Gameboy lasted 9 years, GBC was 3, and GBA went for another 3. The DS has been around for 3 years now, there might be 6 more left or next year we might see a new one.

Superstar90 lieks mudkipz

@Torgen thinks AAA has lost all meaning:

Did you forget there's a $500 model as well?

ssjmichael

@ballaboy311: yeah, but xbox 360 is losing in 5th place worldwide sales. I know people in USA dont always get this but its not just about USA.

EddyBrentwood

@metadae:

I know. I'm holding out on a DS in hopes of a new handheld but it doesn't seem like they have any plans to make a new one.

NeoAkira

@EnigmaNemesis: If the retail price of a console is $400 and the cost to build it is $400 then the manufacturer still loses money.

Torgen thinks AAA has lost all meaning

At this rate, we're going to have to wait at least another 5-10 years for a new Nintendo handheld!
What's the point in even thinking about making a new one if you're selling millions of what you have already?

metadae

Cool! The 360 came pretty damn close to the Wii. I'm glad.

altgod

Dang, how many more PS2s are gonna be sold next holiday season when its price will most undoubtably be under $100?? That thing has been out for over SEVEN years....
Wow, maybe Sony knows what they're doing to be thinking in such long-term scenarios. Unfortunately, all the haters think in the short-term only... Oh well, their loss.
I think Sony did a great job. :)

TheFaze

@tufty:

Here we go!

EnigmaNemesis

Impressive numbers for all 3, but the Wii and 360 were a lot closer than I expected. Recognize the trend, as 2008 will be VERY similar.

For the record, though, I think its important for everyone to remember than the NPD is still an EDUCATED GUESS for how much was sold. Not all retailers are represented, some of those being significant retailers.

Darth_Tigris

@CortezTheKiller:

No way, they make money off the hardware now!

(shit that fanboys said would never happen to it, ironically it is)

Goes to show you that armchair analysts don't actually know as much as the billion dollar corporation that does this for a living.

EnigmaNemesis

@thereturnoftheufo: I wish Jesus where here. He could give supply Wiis and DSes to everyone from just a crate of 10 each.

Sabre_Justice

@suya123: It can't be catching up if it came in dead last. At best, it didn't fall behind as much.

Mezodon

While these numbers are great for MS in the US, I have two concerns: upcoming roster doesn't look so great, and in terms of worldwide ongoing sales, the 360 is now behind the PS3. Of course, the 360 has more total units sold, but the momentum worldwide is with the Wii and PS3. Blu-ray and better exclusives can only improve the PS3's future. I see the 360 going the way of the... xbox.

tufty

@Tzepish: Quite the contrary. Jesus bought way more people than that.

thereturnoftheufo

What a conundrum for Sony. Their best selling system for the holidays was a system they would rather not have people play! Sure they improved their sales of the PS3, but its not hard to imagine the suits at Sony tearing their hair out wishing that all the PS2 sales were PS3 sales. But discontinuing the PS2 is like burning a huge stack of cash.

Oh, and Nintendo... seriously well done.

StrikerGold

Nintendo = 3,820,000 (47.5%)
Sony = 2,957,600 (37%)
Microsoft = 1,260,000 (16%)

Thankfully for Microsoft, their software profits make up for a 3rd-place hardware showing.

caseypenk

Too bad the Ps3 didnt do any better

TheNocturnalSun

My friend got a PS3 for Christmas. He's very happy. I got one in August. It's not a bad console guys =/

thereturnoftheufo

It seems like the seniors love them some DS. I wonder what games they got along with it besides Brain age?

deathsyth8888

@mindinrewind: Ah, well I'll stand corrected then. Just figured the lower price point would appeal more to people.

@Tulkamir: Wasn't the point I was making. Like I just mentioned, just figured the lower price point of the 360 Arcade will be more appealing to parents and such.

Saint Anima (PSN = PoeticMassacre)

My lord, the DS is selling like crazy.

You know, I'd love to see a top ten list of the best selling DS games. First, of all regions, then broken down by region.

I can't believe the DS is doing so well... when the first iteration came out, most people that I knew thought it was a joke of a handheld, now it's a frickin' powerhouse.

BuckTwenty

Wii could have done at least half a million more if they'd fixed supply... 360 had a chance at another couple of hundred thousand had they not started to run out of Premiums and Elites.

Not sure what to say about the PS3 really. Could say be thankful for Japan, but the Wii is utterly crushing it there too.

Psychotext

...perhaps Sony should start making the PS2 difficult to find in stores?

CortezTheKiller

Strong improvement for PS3 sales, everything else was very respectable.

Uncharted sales were a little higher this month. Orange Box PS3 sold only 50,000 units. Patch it, Valve.

Pai Pai Master

PS3 did better than I thought it would do.

ballaboy311

WTF? The PS2 beat the PS3 by 300k? Who the hell are these people?

Horrific figures for the PS3 all round, and I speak as a PS3 owner. The 360 did awesome figures against the Wii......

CortezTheKiller

What is this? Nintendo steam rolling the console again? How can this be?! /sarcasim

The only reason the Wii lost to the DS was because it was sold out everywhere. If they had 9 million wii's to sell in NA they would have sold 9 million wii's last month.

BassForever

@giovonti: Didn't read that anywhere. It just makes sense, especially if a family couldn't land a Wii. The Arcade is in the same price range of the Wii, and it's not as hard to find. Either that or they can just buy a PS2.

Saint Anima (PSN = PoeticMassacre)

@Saint Anima (PSN = PoeticMassacre): Judging by local stores, the Premium did the most business, by far. Followed by the Elite, then the Arcade. Coming in last: Halo 3 edition.

Still can't find a Premium or Elite around here (Los Angeles). Arcades and Halos are plentiful.

mindinrewind

@Tulkamir:

Um, the DS sells quite a bit of software.

dead_red_eyes

@Saint Anima (PSN = PoeticMassacre):

Also, console price means nothing, software sales are what matters. Doesn't matter if the PS3 costs more than the other consoles because they aren't making more money from that. In fact, Sony loses more money per console sold than MS or Nintendo does.

Tulkamir

That's a lot of happy gamers.

Eman311

DS Sells the most hardware, but way less software than the others, kind of funny.

Great overall year for gaming though, shit loads of consoles moved. :D

Tulkamir

@Saint Anima (PSN = PoeticMassacre): Where did you read that?

giovonti

@DigitalHero:

Don't you think global sales are helping though? I mean for every 160,000 PS3's sold in Japan, Microsoft sells like 28,000.

I could care less about the Wii btw, that's not the PS3's competition, the 360 is. First place for the Wii does nothing to impact the PS3 as it won't take exclusives awaay, nor lead developing. The 360 can.

ssjmichael

@BD:

goddamn you're a deluded fanboy. the 360 has a GREAT library. get over it.

anyway, cool shit. i'm surprised the 360 kept numbers so close to the wii. of course if the wii could be kept in stock its numbers would be much higher.

coin_operated_boy

If more Wiis were actually available it might've sold over 2 million perhaps...

Nintenboy01

does anyone think that this gen the ps3 will be like the xbox or gc were last time around, i think the sales numbers were way higher for the ps2 last round, so maybe this gen will be a little more equal or something
just my personal ramblings sorry

bobbus-maximus

Im surprised the 360 is right up there with the wii, considering how "hard" it seemed to get one. Anyways, all the systems did well, Sony just had the dishonor of being ranked 4, 5, and 6.

convergecrew

@suya123:

The PS3 will never catch up until it outsells the competition. It's still in a deficit since that has never happened in the United States. Quite unfortunate.

DigitalHero

@Tzepish: WAAAY MORE. Lord forgive Mc Whertor.

dadeisvenm

Before I realized it was the PS2, I thought the PS3 had sold 1.1 million units. Still, 800k isn't too shabby for the PS3.

I expect they'll sell a lot more of them now that HD-DVD is dead. That's the rub with PS3 though, it's tough to tell how many are being bought for gaming, movies, or a little of both.

skullivan

@CerberusXTX: I am sure too :)

Irenicus-the one and only

@Trochan: They haven't hit their 6 billion sold mark quite yet.

dowingba

This completely pisses me off that I didn't invest in nintendo stock when I had extra money in the bank.

Terrorsaur

@funkrusher: "I'm shocked the 360 didn't get over 1million in Dec. I thought the holidays would've made that a sure bet."

Uhh, it did. The PS3 didn't, though.

"At the same time NPD doesn't track toys r us. So The total numbers could be slightly higher or significantly higher for all systems."

NPD figures out the sales for every retailer in the US. They extrapolate the numbers based on the figures that they get from retailers that they do survey. This method can be extremely accurate. In fact, Microsoft has commented in the past at how accurate NPD is.

Rectangle

I don't see how the Nintendo DS is selling so well. Seeing how many they've sold already, you would think that everybody has one by now.

Trochan

PS3 did fine, in my opinion.

You also have to consider what 360 sku counts for the majority of it's sales. I believe the Arcade did a good job of being sold due to it's price. So although the PS3 is cheaper than it was before, it's still more expensive than the Wii and the Arcade 360.

All in all, good sales for all.

Saint Anima (PSN = PoeticMassacre)

@funkrusher:

What are you talking about? The 360 got up to one million units sold O_o It got exactly 1,260,000 units sold.

daknight

@fyren: uncharted is pretty good.erm. yeah, although stardust is pretty good, and although i haven't got it (due to being in europe) everyday shooter is apparently good, erm... yeah. final fantasy 13?

btw i have a ps3 and i like it a lot

comedy

once again, low ps3 sales have made me sad. :(
hope fully 2008 will be a better year, mgs4 is still going to be awesome though.

bobbus-maximus

@Flowen: The 360 seems to be doing steady. It's the only system I've played since like November with that huge game rush so mine's at least getting a workout. (About 60 hours of Rock Band so far with no RROD. A broken drum pedal though.)

dowingba

@funkrusher: Those are good numbers for the PS3 my friend. I mean its not wii numbers, but it appears to be picking up steam.

RabidSquirrel

PS3 will come august or october for me. I just don't see the need to purchase it right at the moment.

fyren

@Irenicus-the one and only: you make a wonderful point, im sure if they had 5 mil available, they would have sold all 5 mil.....

CerberusXTX

Hey, the PS3 seems to be catching up, thats a good sign.

suya123

....all I can say is...wow

Zho

Hats off to the big N for their stats this december, I bet the PS3 will do much better next year, as for the 360? I really don't have a clue! HA!

Flowen

Wow so much for Ps3 picking up steam. It seems to only be getting worse.

I'm shocked the 360 didn't get over 1million in Dec. I thought the holidays would've made that a sure bet.

At the same time NPD doesn't track toys r us. So The total numbers could be slightly higher or significantly higher for all systems.

Nintendo DS damn I want one bad. But I don't want to trade in my Psp for it. Although I suspect once I get a DS my Psp will be taking a backseat while I get caught up on the library of DS games that I've never played.

funkrusher

@Seiferoth: Like I count those. I am an American! We dont care about the rest of the world. Unless they have oil. Then their our best friends.
/sarcasm

ballaboy311

Those are insane numbers for DS, and excellent for Wii and 360.

DigitalHero

*looks at his 2 DSes*

*feels dirty*

Witzbold

@ballaboy311:

Folks in Europe or Japan;)

Seiferoth

Wonder how many more Wii's would have sold if they had been available...

Smadubaku

wow...

LLamaStar

that's a lot

Heavyfuel

@McWhertor: The cat persists!

waitinthecar

@McWhertor: The new picture trumped it :P cats are just cute.

@CerberusXTX: Cause the Wii was sold out? :D

Irenicus-the one and only

It's amazing to me how well the handhelds are selling - particularly in the Land of the Rising Sun. I honestly never believed they would become such a huge piece of the gaming pie. And then to sell that many DS' in the US. I have a DS and PSP, but they don't get nearly the love that my regular consoles get. I guess I'm becomming the minority.

Smadubaku

@matizzy: nah.... all the outside cooking is done in the summer.

kofrez_portuguese_do_it_better

Oh PS3 got pwned again. Anyone not see that coming.

ballaboy311

@BigKidIcarus:

Actually I'm surprised with the PS3's sales.

Sure it got slaughtered, but it sold better than I expected.

That DS though.... Bloody hell, I gotta buy one and see what the fuss is all about

kofrez_portuguese_do_it_better

ps3 are going to be moving very rapidly this year tho, and especially fast during winter season

matizzy

LOL @the picture with the seniors :D

Irenicus-the one and only

@Tzepish: In December 2007 alone?

waitinthecar

"I can has Nintendo DS?"

or maybe

"Invisible stylus"

comes to mind

MechanisMs

wow. a great year for games... truly.

comedy

I can't believe the PS2 even beat the PSP... Insane, I hope this is the last year for the thing, I love it but enough is enough.

And the DS, well, wow, I don't know what to say. I don't think anyone saw this coming back in the day when it released as the fat DS. Atleast the PS3 did not die, actually I am pretty happy with the PS3, considering everything it has had against itself since release, but I bet 2008 it will grow strong with all titles coming out.

Irenicus-the one and only

i wish the PS3 had broken the 1 million mark. oh well, it's still doing quite well.

NeoAkira

i cant believe people are buying the ps2

matizzy

woot first comment on story and account. hooray!

TheLostHiro

@waitinthecar: Sorry, cat has been removed. :(

McWhertor

So Xboxars aren't twice the PS3's.

Though I'm amazed at their sellthrough considering it's got nothing coming for it... well forever. Great job there.

Nintendo though. That company is a monster.

BD

JESUS H...

syl1985

Anyone know what the pictured cat is playing?

waitinthecar

Good for them.

There are a million jokes about Nintendo's new target audience in that picture.

Moonshadow101

I think Jesus has sold more than 2,470,000.

Tzepish

It prints salvation!

dowingba

Nintendo is back on top baby! Sony...you poor poor soul...
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tec2030

I'd say the 360 did quite well against the "MUST HAVE" Wii.....

CerberusXTX

wow the PS2 beat the PSP by a slim margin.

teh_joe

Move along nothing to see here.

Nice to see the PS3 climbing a bit in sales though

kofrez_portuguese_do_it_better

Poor PS3 got slaughtered.

BigKidIcarus

As others of said, I think the 360 would have done loads better if it had not been supply constrained. I work at a major retail chain, all the stores around us have been sold out of 360's since 2 weeks before xmas. We've gotten like 8 in so far, and they sell instantly.

scottyboy218

@DigitalHero:

The Wii directly took Monster Hunter 3 away from the PS3. It's now exclusive to the Wii, and in 2007, MH2:Future was the best selling game on any Sony system. :P

zenfoldor

@CERBERUSXTX

Not flaming, but the Wii was supply constrained. How is this news to anyone?

zenfoldor

@CerberusXTX:

360 couldn't even beat a severely supply-constrained Wii.

dcartist

Lol, the PS2 does not want to die! I'm so happy Nintendo is back in the groove after the abomination called "Gamecube".

bigbobo

The PS3 had a good month with nearly 800k sold. That's the end of the good news for it, though, folks.

- Many have said that the PS3 is tracking as well as the 360 did during its first year. Well, the 360 sold 4.58 million by the end of 2006 in North America. PS3 in 2007? 3.2 million.

- While the Wii led the year in hardware (I'm not counting portables for this comparison), the 360 led in software. The PS3 led in ... nothing. And it wasn't remotely close to the leader in either category.

- Many have stated that 2008 will be the year for the PS3. This is based on some key software that has generated a lot of interest and said interest could turn into sales. While this could happen, the trend for PS3 hardware and software sales in NA do not support that. While I do agree that the PS3 should do BETTER this year we don't know for sure (SIDE NOTE: vgchartz, which proved to be fairly close in its hardware guesstimates for Dec has tracked the PS3 as returning to sub-2007 January numbers so far this year). Video game sales trends tend to be fairly illustrative and relatively steady.

- As for the 360, with sales so close to the Wii in December, what will happen if/when MS decides to drop the price SIGNIFICANTLY? I ask this because the $50 cut last year couldn't have been the real cut. The system has been manufactured for nearly 2½ years, so manufacturing cost are surely MUCH less than they were in Sep 2005 (Sony has reportedly halved the manu cost for the PS3 is much less time). Has MS positioned themselves to drop the price of each SKU nearly $100 in short order? How much will that boost sales for a system that is ALREADY outselling the PS3 consistently in NA?

2008 should be a very interesting year for gaming (lots of potentially great software in particular), but I see the much talked about CONSOLE WARRRRRR playing out much the same as it did this year with the PS3 possibly having a slight increase in sales growth.

Darth_Tigris

So if the DS was engineered by Buddhists does that make the order:
Buddhism > Nintendo DS > Christianity?
^^^For some reason I think that would be an awesome grafitti tag. I'm in an odd place tonight...

Horsefly

"Nintendo DS Bigger Than Jesus This Christmas"

=\

d1sco_d3ath

@scottyboy218:

Sounds like the Wii for the past year.

Sintariot

@tufty: Huh? I don't see too many named exclusives for the PS3 other than MGS and LBP, and while the games have slowed down since the holiday line-up, it's not as if nothing's coming out. I think many people are deluded. And don't expect FFXIII until 2009, at least in English.

peacefuloutrage

The frightening thing about the Wii sales is, thats probably all they had to sell.

Imagine if they had the kind of built up stock the 360 enjoyed this christmas.

Everything sold pretty well actually, but the DS sales are just insane.

brent_w

Come on, we're all gamers here - ain't NUTHIN beats 'replay' function, and it's Jesus Christ who GIVES us the 'replay' ability, without Him it's 'reality' setting with extreme violence and NO extra lives. NOTHING is bigger than JC, don't you forget it!

banmojo

@banmojo:
Good one :)

Looking at these numbers I can't help but think if Sony left BC in the 40GB PS3 a few of those PS2 sales might have been PS3 sales. It's easy to convince yourself to pay more cash for a PS3 to play PS2 games but you also get the Blu-ray player and Metal Gear latter this year.

I'd seriously contemplate getting the PS3 if I was going to buy a PS2. PS2 is $130+$20 for memory card. I'd easily pay $250 difference to have a Blu-Ray player and play the PS3 games.

Kinburn

@暇人: "6,000,000,000 Bibles in more than 2,000 languages and dialects. Whatever the precise figure, the Bible is by far the bestselling book of all time."

dadeisvenm

well, this is it people. This is how the race is going to be from now on. This was the Holiday Season that everyone needed to bring everything to the table. Barring some fantastic, Earth shattering change, the race is set.

Tepoz

Sony sold just about 3 million pieces of hardware in December alone, thats impressive. Dont forget Microsoft blew their software wad in 07 and Sony's software lineup looks great for 08 plus it appears Blu-Ray is going to win the format war. Things are looking good for Sony this year. I still dont understand the Wii's success. I have one and all it does is collect dust. They're way more compelling games out there for the 360 and PS3. And apparently 3rd party titles aren't selling well at all for the Wii. What gives?

Phenom88

@Saint Anima (PSN = PoeticMassacre): I think the general public actually realizes that the Arcade is the gimped version, which is good.

mindinrewind

I think this iteration of the console war will end up like the last one, only roles are reversed. Sony and Nintendo have swapped places, with MS still in the middle. Next round I am expecting a shakeout where one of the players will fall out.

krln99