Not only did the industry see two of the biggest releases ever in Halo 3 and Grand Theft Auto IV , but new accessible games like Rock Band and the Wii Series of games were welcomed by new gamers. In the first 18 months of release, the Wii sold over 50 million games, not including the bundled Wii Sports or Virtual Console games. Not only does this best the sales of this generation's competitors, but it is larger than the extremely successful PlayStation 2 , which had 42 million.
About 8 million units separated the Xbox and PS3; the former had 28 million while the latter had 20 million. Xbox leads total software sales as of October Over 94 million games have been sold for Microsoft 's console.
Wii and the PS3, released a year later, are at 73 million and 30 million respectively. According to NPD sales figures , the Xbox has generated more revenue at retail for third-party publishers than the PS3 and Wii combined this generation , a very remarkable feat. In addition, the attach rate for the Xbox is at a staggering 8. This is far greater than the 5.
Video Game Sales Wiki Explore. Best Selling. Top Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? NPD Seventh generation. View source. History Talk 1. For worldwide sales, see seventh generation of video games Contents. Analyst prediction at the beginning of the console race by a market research firm.
PS3 vs PS2 sales figures. Software sales figures. Penny Arcade comic. Universal Conquest Wiki. Sales figures. Console sales Seventh generation Fastest selling video games Best selling video games Records and milestones. NPD November December sales figures. That was Microsoft's promise. While Community Games has launched without a hitch, the situation is more troublesome behind the scenes, Community Games developers told MTV Multiplayer, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
The root of the problem: we know as much as developers do about how games have been selling. Official Xbox Live evangelist Major Nelson has released several top ten lists seemingly indicating Xbox users would pay for quality indie games , but how many people are buying them?
Our sources said those numbers haven't been disclosed to anyone outside of Microsoft, developers included.
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