Sony has announced that the Playstation 4 has sold 4.2 million consoles since December 28th. This comes one day after Microsoft announced that the Xbox One sold 3 million consoles.
One million PS4’s were sold in the first 24 hours of the system’s release and the last report had the sales at 2.1 million during the first weeks of December.
There is really nothing else to this news. So here is this:
The Xbox One keeps on leaving stores as soon as it comes in.
Yusuf Mehdi, who has an extremely long and I am sure very important title with Xbox has announced that the next-generation console has hit the 3 million mark in sales at the end of 2013. The console released on November 22nd and had reached 2 million sold by December 11th.
Sony also announced sales of 2 million Playstation 4’s around the same time in December but have not updated the numbers since then.
Also, in case you were wondering, Mehdi’s title is Corporate VP of Marketing, Strategy, and Business for Xbox or the CVMSBX. Told you it sounded important.
Nintendo released system and game sales figures for the Wii U and 3DS and to put things bluntly, the 3DS seems to be keeping Nintendo afloat. The handheld sold over a million units this quarter and moved a staggering 11 million games.
Now onto the Wii U. This is gonna hurt.
The Wii U has sold a whopping 160,000 units…from April to the end of June…GLOBALLY.
To put this simply: that is bad.
To put it in internal Nintendo speak: Are we fu**ed? We may be fu**ed. Fu**.
Only 160,000 systems in a three month period in every territory you sell in is no laughing matter. Even the Wii managed to sell over 200,00 systems in the same period. Total sales of the Wii U are sitting at 3.6 million after almost seven months of release with two new consoles on the horizon and Nintendo showing no signs of giving the system a price drop.
This has got to change. The only reason the [amazon_link id=”B002I096AA” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]3DS[/amazon_link] took off after its horrific launch was the huge price cut the system received just months after its release. Nintendo noticed that people were not going to pony up $250 for the new handheld and slash its price by $80. If the [amazon_link id=”B009AGXH64″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Wii U[/amazon_link] is to even survive to see another console cycle then this has to be step one in its rehabilitation.
It seems like I do this every seven days so here we go again.
Another week, another sale on the Playstation Network. This week Ubisoft is offering over 30 games, each discounted up to 50% for PS Plus users. Regular member will get a 30% discount. There are some pretty good games on this list as well as some dogs so I will leave it up to your discerning eye to pick out which is which.
Hint: Michael Jackson: The Experience is not among the good.
Go and check out the full list of games and the other deals available to PS Plus member on the Official Playstation Blog.
Nintendo has sold just over 3 million [amazon_link id=”B009AGXH64″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Wii U’s[/amazon_link] between launch and December 31, 2012. This is a decent number but still behind what the Wii sold back in 2006. The company had forecasted to sell 5.5 million consoles by the end of March, but have scaled that number back to a more modest 4 million. 3 million is still a good number for a console that not everyone was sold on. If Nintendo expects the Wii U to sell like the Wii then they are in for quarterly disappointment.
[amazon_link id=”B00A9L2TZE” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]New Super Mario Bros. U[/amazon_link] led the way for game sales on the Wii U with 2.3 million copies sold which is an insane 75% attach rate with the system. NintendoLand was the next best seller with 2 million copies, but I am assuming that the copies sold inside the Wii U Deluxe Set were counted.
Nintendo also updated the lifetime sales numbers of the Wii (99.38 million), 3DS (29.84 million) and DS (153.67 million).
Today was not a good day to be an employee at website Machinima who laid off almost 10% of their staff just two weeks before Christmas. The layoffs affected the editorial staff. Machinima employees were given no forward notice of their terminations.
To rub salt in the wound, Machinima released an official statement about the matter.
“Today Machinima underwent a reorganization to address its global growth, and this process unfortunately resulted in layoffs. Less than 10% of Machinima’s workforce was effected. Also as part of the restructure Machinima is hiring across key divisions including Sales, Marketing and Product.”
So for all the people that created and edited content for the website take heart, they are hiring new employees to help sell your content.
Sony has announced today that over 525,000 Playstation 3 consoles and 160,000 Vita’s were sold over the week of Black Friday. The Playstation 3 bundles saw a 15% increase over the same time last year and the Vita sales has the handheld off to a good start in it’s first holiday season.
Sony definitely upped its game this season with a number of different bundles available for both systems including a Playstation 3 w/ Infamous 1&2 and Uncharted 1&2. The Vita had numerous bundles including games like Call of Duty: Black Ops, Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation and Lego Batman 2.
Nintendo’s sixth home console is off to a strong start but not quite the sales that its predecessor saw.
Reports are that Nintendo sold approximately 400,000 Wii U consoles in its first week of release. That is a strong start but not as big as the Wii’s release which saw 600,000 units sold back in 2006.
It was an all around great sales week for anything Nintendo in general. Along with the Wii U’s sales, Nintendo announced that almost 300,000 Wii’s, 275,000 DS systems and 250,000 3DS systems were sold in the same week.
Only time will tell if the Wii U is truly a hit with sales always spiking at launch and during the holiday season.
Black Friday is quickly approaching and to get everyone ready Best Buy has just posted their Black Friday ad and there is plenty to get excited about in the gaming department. The 360, PS3, 3DS and Vita will all have bundles on sale as well as some of the best selling games of the year like Borderlands 2, Assassin’s Creed 3 and Darkstalkers 2 will be almost 50% off.
Here is the rundown on the best of what Best Buy has to offer for gamers.
(Items marked “Doorbuster Deals” are only available at the midnight opening until out of stock. Tickets will be handed out at local stores)
-Playstation 3 250GB system w/ Uncharted 1&2, Infamous 1&2 and one month of PS Plus- $199.99 ($100 off) *Doorbuster Deal*
-XBox 360 250GB w/ Skyrim and Forza Motorsports 4- $199.99 ($100 off)
-Playstation Vita Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Declassified Bundle- $199.99 ($50 off)
-Nintendo 3DS (Fire Red) w/ Super Mario 3D Land- $149.99
-Assassin’s Creed 3 (360, PS3)- $34.99
-Borderlands 2 (360, PS3)- $34.99
-Madden NFL 13 (360,PS3)- $34.99
-Forza Horizon (360)- $34.99
-Diablo 3 (PC)- $34.99
-FIFA Soccer 13 (360, PS3)- $34.99
-Need For Speed: Most Wanted (360, PS3)- $29.99 *Doorbuster Deal*
-Darksiders 2 (360, PS3)- $29.99 *Doorbuster Deal*
-Medal Of Honor: Warfighter (360, PS3)- $29.99 *Doorbuster Deal*
-The Amazing Spider-Man (360, PS3)- $29.99 *Doorbuster Deal*
-Epic Mickey 2 (Wii)- $29.99 *Doorbuster Deal*
-Battlefield 3: Premium Edition (PS3)- $29.99 *Doorbuster Deal*
-Dance Central 3 (360)- $24.99
-Just Dance 4 (360)- $24.99
-Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (3DS)- $14.99
-Mortal Kombat (Vita) $14.99
-Halo: Reach (360)- $14.99
-Dead Island: Game of the Year Edition (360, PS3)- $7.99
-Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (360, PS3)- $7.99
Ubisoft has just reported their first half numbers for the 2012-13 fiscal year and have announced that Assassin’s Creed 3 is estimated to have sold more than 3.5 million copies in its first week in release.
I think we were all expecting Assassin’s Creed 3 to pop a big number but that is a huge amount of games. It is over double the sales from last year’s Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. It seems the swap from Italy to the American Revolution is just what this series needed.
Ubisoft still has a strong lineup for the rest of the year as well with Far Cry 3, Just Dance 4 and seven titles releasing on Nintendo’s Wii U. It is basically the exact opposite of the THQ article I posted this morning.