Mon, Apr 13, 2009 | 14:17 BST

PS3 closed gap on 360 in US last month, says Pachter

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Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter has predicted that, despite another massive month for Wii in the US in March, PS3 significantly closed its gap on 360 compared to February.

The analyst guessed today that 800,000 Wii, 400,000 360, and 350,000 PS3 consoles were sold in America
last month.

PS3 was soundly beaten by 360 in February, selling 276,000 units to the Microsoft console’s 391,000.

“Our console sell-through forecasts reflect our belief supply and demand for Wii hardware are finally in balance, with most of the upside in unit sales attributable to growing demand for the Xbox 360 and PS3,” Pachter said in a note this afternoon.

By comparison, EEDAR predicted today that 900,000 Wiis, 395,000 360s and 300,000 PS3 were sold in the US last month.

March NPD figures will release on Thursday.

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6 comments

Patrick Garratt
13/04/09, 2:18 pm

Updated. I’ve added the EEDAR figures as well.

Lee
13/04/09, 2:51 pm

Uh it looks quite the opposite. That 7 million plus lead just got a bit larger in fact if true. Of course, this is Pachter were talking about. However, that is what NPD is for to set the fact and the fiction apart, ala Pachter.

Psychotext
13/04/09, 4:13 pm

So “closed the gap on the amount it’s falling behind by”?

Or something. Which would work… if it wasn’t for the fact that there’s a number of months where the PS3 outsold the 360. Anyway, here’s my predictions for the hell of it.

Wii – 865K
NDS – 630K
360 – 440K
PS3 – 300K
PSP – 245K
PS2 – 173K

Johnny Cullen
13/04/09, 4:19 pm

If he’s right, it looks like the Killzone 2 factor kicked in.

Retroid
13/04/09, 5:36 pm

“Which would work… if it wasn’t for the fact that there’s a number of months where the PS3 outsold the 360.”

Oh Psycho, you’re such an Xbot!