I didn't see a sticky. Maybe I missed it. Anyway:

Industry Sales
Mar-07 Mar-08 CHG
Total Video Games $1.1B $1.7B 57%
Video Games Hardware $377.9M $551.3M 46%
Video Games Software $579.1M $945.6M 63%
Video Game Accessories $139.5M $220M 58%


HW Sales

Hardware Mar-08
PlayStation 2 216K
PlayStation 3 257K
PlayStation Portable 297K
Xbox 360 262K
Nintendo DS 698K
Wii 721K

SW Sales
Top-Selling VG Software - March 2008

Platform Title Publisher Release Date March Units
WII SUPER SMASH BROS: BRAWL NINTENDO OF AMERICA Mar-08 2.7M
360 *TOM CLANCY'S RAINBOW SIX: VEGAS 2 UBISOFT Mar-08 752.3K
360 ARMY OF TWO ELECTRONIC ARTS Mar-08 606.1K
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA Feb-07 409.8K
PSP GOD OF WAR: CHAINS OF OLYMPUS SONY Mar-08 340.5K
PSP CRISIS CORE: FINAL FANTASY VII SQUARE ENIX INC Mar-08 301.6K
WII GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK ACTIVISION Oct-07 264.1K
360 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 2K8 TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE Mar-08 237.1K
360 *CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION Nov-07 237K
PS3 ARMY OF TWO ELECTRONIC ARTS Mar-08 224.9K

Anyway, some funny GIF's to go along with it:

From sheep to everyone else:

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Anybody got anymore? Maybe a pro-sony or pro-MS one?

Well, at this point. I feel sorry for my brother because he bought a 360. I would never tell him that. It's just that....the 360 ain't doing to hot right now, saleswise, and it's only getting worse. It's got a great library, but then there is that RRoD monkey on your back.

Thing is, the 360 will probably be dropped first. Microsoft isn't a good company, in fact they are pretty non-chalant when it comes to their customers money.

You're getting an awesome gaming system, either way you go. However, I'd say that only console with a dimmer future than the 360, is the PSP. This forum has a lot of pro Microsoft supporters, so your not gonna get a fair opinion here. Check out the forums as IGN, Gametrailers, VGChartz, or Neogaf. They're gonna tell you to get a PS3 and a Wii. That's where the market is headed.

Is the 360 a bad system? No sir, has lots of fine games, out and upcoming. However, we've got several factors against us:

A. RRoD

B. Microsoft

C. 720 market introduction will drop 360 without a moments notice

Now, the games for the 360 you'll be missing out on are great, but there isn't a game on the 360 so far that is a must play as far as gaming history goes. The closest thing has been Gears of War, and even it is not near the level of a generation definer. The PS3 has virtually no games atm though, so take it with a grain of salt. GTAIV should tide you over till the big ones hit for either system.

The PS3's biggest problem is, the lack of Japanese support. 1 very crappy JRPG is out for the system so far. That looks to change eventually, but your buying your PS3 for the promise of a library with a few really great games, and your hopes really lie in Final Fantasy XIII. Since it is the XIII's installment, and hasn't let me down yet, I would say you have a safe bet if your willing to wait.

The Wii has a generation definer in Mario Galaxy, but its major problem is relative lack of the shooter genre FPS and TPS. The Wii is starting to get some good 3rd party support due to strong sales and if you like its 1st party offerings, then yes, the Wii has one hell of a lineup, offering the best 1st party Nintendo games since the 64. However, if you like FPS and the AI, Graphics, and draw distances that define the genre, then your not gonna be happy with the Wii. MP3, while awesome, isn't a FPS. It's also worth mentioning that the Wii is very hard to find, but relatively less expensive in hardware and software.

I've played all 3 systems extensively, and here's where it stands, imo.

If you have played all the great games on the 360 that you care to, already, then the system is a lame duck. It has a mediocre 08 lineup. However, the 07 lineup was better than the PS3 08 linup is, and if you've never played those old news games, they are unbelievably good, but none of them are absolutely required plays, except Portal which is also on PS3.

The Wii now has a good library, because its 08 lineup has been great so far, and has been the only console to really deliver so early in the year, but the rest of the year after Mario Kart, looks slim, realitively. However, E3 is looking like Nintendo is going to own, with all the 3rd parties hyped up on the Wii and the big secret announcments, which have been confirmed as Icarus Wii by IGN. If you don't like Nintendo games, however, and money is no object, then A. You are the opposite of me, and B. go with the PS3, imo, and if you do a second system, get the Wii, PS3 and 360's future libraries are very similar.

The PS3 has virtually no games, and hasn't delivered at all. The Wii and the 360 are both lightyears ahead of the PS3 in games atm. However, the PS3 has the brightest future, when it comes to games, with FFXIII leading the way and of course MGS4. The PS3 also won't break down on you.

Call me anti 360 if you want.

XBL does have over 10 million subscribers so I can see the reason for the slow down the times a big item is released Online.

The time PSN gets that many enjoy the crashes. :lol:

PS3_3DO

Well, to be fair, PSN is free, and XBL costs money.

...and just for the record, the lowest scores these games got were:

Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword 60/100 Xplay

Final Fantasy Core Crisis 40/100 Xplay

Fail.

They also just gave NG: Dragon Sword a 3/5.

While CC getting a 2/5 should be nice ammo for fanboys, imo, this ruins Xplays credibility, and I HATE the PSP, but honestly, this isn't ammo, its stupid.

For giving Dragon Sword and Core Crisis, the probably 2 best handheld games so far, 3/5 and 2/5 respectively in the span of a few days, Xplay fails to be a credibile review site, and this is a PSP hater speaking. This is bullcrap.

Hi all. I just thought I would point out that last month the Wii outsold the PS3 by 4 units too 1 unit. This month, and indeed this week, the Wii is outselling the PS3 3 to 1, which is on par with its overall track in Japan.

The DS has and still is outselling the PSP worldwide by about 2 to 1, and has a 70 percent marketshare. The PSP has a 30 percent marketshare, and has a far lower percentage of software marketshare for the handheld market about 10 percent.

The PSP is selling as a multimedia device and spikes off color changes and firmware updates, while its biggest games, like God of War, will be lucky to reach a million units worldwide.

In America, the PSP is again a non-entity compared to the DS, which is outselling it a 3 to 1 rate in hardware easily.

The PS3 in Japan is tracking below the gamecube. The gamecube never reached 7 million units sold in Japan.

Soon the number of people who own a Wii fit balance board will be more than the number of people who own a PS3 in Japan.

PS3 software barely breaks the top 20 in Japan, and its biggest games have virtually no legs, and sell no hardware.

For Final Fantasy XIII to sell was well as the last Final Fantasy in Japan, it would need over a 100 percent attach rate, at this point in time.

The Nintendo DS, the most successful console of all time in Japan, some claim has hit its saturation point, however it still manages to far outsell the PS3 each month and only be outsold by the PSP on rare occasions, aka, when a new color is released.

The PS3 itself often finds that it can barely track above 10k units, and is sometimes threatened by the 360's 6k units a week.

Software for Sony's systems is in a dire state. The once gaming giant now struggles to sell any portion of the months software, while Nintendo first party games alone usually account for 50 percent of Japan's marketshare, that's not accounting for most of the DS and Wii software sales, which are 3rd party. If not for the PS2, the whole sony family would be lucky to rake in 10 percent of the weekly software income in Japan.

We tend to compare things needlessly, but when Sony is being outclasses so severely by Nintendo in Japan, and indeed worldwide, its far too entertaining not to draw comparisons.

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Does Nintendo count?

Because they have created some amazing games recently (SMG, SSBB etc)

Nintendo_Ownes7

I could easily change mine to Intelligent Systems, Retro Studios, or Nintendo Keyoto, because GDMF they make some good games.

Let me also mention Level-5 is actually an almost Nintendo quality developer, and deserve a mention in this post.

This is coming from a Wii fanboy so I'm supposedly casual, learn gaming history and stop picking obvious companies like Capcom, who is great, but not nearly consistant enough, nor are they freakin worthy of any praise from a development standpoint considering they literally destroyed and fired Clover studios for money.

Lets see, worthy developers:

Suda

Clover Studios team(suck it Capcom)

SquareSOFT

Kojima

Miyamoto

Level-5

Retro

Intelligent Systems

No others.

Nintendo, no contest, no debate. The only company that consistantly puts out AAA games, with enough frequency to sustain a hardware system by itself. Never faultering, and always of top quality.

Imagine if Blizzard or Bioware had to put out enough games to support a console, no way, their games are way to infrequent for them to even be considered the "best." Any company can develop a AAA, if they spend 6 years and 50 million dollars in development.

Thing is, Nintendo can do it in 2, with 15 million in development and Miyamoto the only dude behind the computer.

I hate to fanboy out here, but there are have been studies on this, and Nintendo is always at the top of the list. Can't buck the champ, I don't care how anti-nintendo biased this forum is, this website and its reviewers are not biased, and they give Nintendo games the scores they deserve, except for Jeff, who was fired for bias, so yeah.

A lot of 8.5 games are truly great.

Even a lot of 7.0 and a few 6.0 and under games are great. Don't rely on GS' review scores, especially with the new(er) approximation system. I prefer to read user reviews (several of them), because they're usually more accurate and reflective of what I may feel when purchasing a game.
Saturos3091

Yeah, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn scored a 6 or something on this site, and it's bar none, my favorite Wii game. How the hell does that reviewer sleep at night, lol? That is the worst thing I've ever seen, worse than the Rachet and Clank score, imho, and honestly I don't think that guy played past the first chapter.

Its all about the games that interest you really. Are you interested in Super Mario Galaxy and Super Smash Bros Brawl? Or are you more interested in Metal Gear Solid 4 and Resistance? Final Fantasy XIII will also be coming soon, but I'm guessing by the time that comes you will be ready to buy another system.

Remember, many of the multiplatform titles you can and probably have bought for your 360 already, so that might be a deciding factor in choosing.

Neither is a bad choice, just do a little research, see if your friend would drop the price on the PS3 by $50) and yeah, see what you like.

Zassimick

But what you DON'T wanna say is this:

If he had a PS3 and not a 360 you would tell him to get a Wii in a SECOND over a 360. That's right, isn't it.

The thing is, as the years progress, the 360 and PS3's titles will get closer and more similar, while the Wii's exclusive's will get more diverse as they branch out from the PS3 and 360 and the PS2 dies.

That's the reality of it. In the short run, the PS3 is almost as good as the Wii for a second console, but in 3 years, no sir, you know as well as I, that some of the "exclusives" will be on the 360 and vice versa, and there will be a lot of new Wii games that are exclusive from first and third parties.