Estimated Software Sales for Q4 2007
By Chris on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 at 9:31 PM PST In Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Games Industry, Microsoft, Microsoft, Nintendo, Nintendo, Sony, Sony
Next Gen recently posted a fairly well thought out story that takes the NPD numbers we’ve been given and extrapolates estimates of software sales, per platform, for Q4 2007. I won’t try to summarize his process, as he does a number of different things, but suffice it to say that he does a pretty fine job given what data we have.
And he sure does make some fine looking bar graphs.
Later in the article he uses data released by Microsoft, which might make you hesitant to believe his conclusions, but much of it comes from NPD numbers and simple multiplication.
I’d definitely recommend you read it; some of the conclusions were certainly unexpected. Check it out here.
Before anyone screams the chart above is inaccurate, these are NPD numbers, meaning US figures only.
Wow, I was really surprised by the “first 14 months comparison”. I didn’t realize the Wii was selling so much more software in its first 14 months than the 360 was. If you read on the net, you would believe that the 360 is selling way more software ever since launch.