By our estimates, sales were somewhere between 45,000 and 59,000 units for the month, which is lower than any of the three previous -
generation home consoles sold in their worst months, with the possible exception of a recent performance by the original Wii.
Not exact matches
However, rather interestingly, the Xbox One continues to lead in software sales with Microsoft drawing attention to the fact the Xbox One had «the most cumulative units
sold for any eighth
generation home console platform life - to - date».
Even if Kingdom Hearts is the only one at E3 it would still be a seen as a big announcement as the series was one of the biggest
selling on the PS2 and is yet to make a
home console debut this
generation.
According to the NPD Group, the Wii surpassed the Xbox 360 to become the best -
selling «next
generation»
home video game
console in Canada with 813,000 units
sold by April 1, 2008, and had been the best -
selling home console for 13 of the previous 17 months.
According to the NPD Group, the Wii had
sold a total of 1,060,000 units in Canada as of August 1, 2008, making it the first current
generation home console to surpass the million unit mark in that country.
In the United States, the Wii had
sold 10.9 million units by July 1, 2008, making it the leader in current -
generation home console sales, according to the NPD Group, surpassing the Xbox 360 which was released a year prior to the Wii.
In the United Kingdom, the Wii leads in current
generation home console sales with 4.9 million units
sold as of January 3, 2009, according to GfK Chart - Track.
Had
Home been positioned up front as a freemium gaming platform — and had launched with the wide array of third - party games currently available — it really would have been a major
selling point for owning a PS3 at the onset of this
console generation.
The seventh
console generation was SEGA's big test as a 3rd party publisher, while they were still a 3rd party during most of the sixth
generation, the seventh was the first time they didn't have
home console hardware to
sell from the very start.