Mon, May 11, 2009 | 15:43 BST

360 demolished PS3 in April, US trade down 17% – Pachter

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Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter just put out his US console sales estimate for April, putting Wii at 480,000 units, 360 at 275,000, and PS3 at 175,000 consoles.

The analyst predicted another tough comp for the month, saying he expects sales of $550 million, down 17% compared to last year’s $660 million.

“April presents another month of difficult comparisons (after March’s –17%), with last year’s spectacular launches of Take-Two’s Grand Theft Auto IV selling 2.9 million units and Nintendo’s Mario Kart Wii selling 1.1 million units (combined for $235 million and 36% of April 2008 total sales),” Pachter said in a note.

“The release slate in April 2009 was very light.”

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27 comments

Psychotext
11/05/09, 12:54 pm

As always, mine for the hell of it…

NDS – 842K
Wii – 540K
360 – 292K
PS3 – 184K
PSP – 136K
PS2 – 126K

Patrick Garratt
11/05/09, 1:07 pm

Not that dissimilar. EEDAR’s will probably be completely different, just for a laugh.

Mike
11/05/09, 1:14 pm

14th? Nice. I’ll be around for that. I love the NPD rush.

Retroid
11/05/09, 1:17 pm

The 360 > PS3 margin is even bigger than last months, isn’t it?

Psychotext
11/05/09, 1:18 pm

@Mike: /snorts NPD figures

@Retroid: Slightly smaller, last month it was 112k. April is a 4 week reporting period vs 5 weeks for March though.

Mike
11/05/09, 1:19 pm

I get highhhhhh

Blerk
11/05/09, 1:22 pm

Seems the Wii ‘demolished’ both of them. Again.

absolutezero
11/05/09, 1:26 pm

Can’t write that in a headline though.

deftangel
11/05/09, 1:27 pm

I think he’s lowballing the Wii. Easter fell into this reporting period and I think that impacted March quite a bit, causing an over-reaction in predicting April. It’ll be 600k or there abouts I’d say.

Software sales will be nowhere near last year but half the internet will forget almost nothing came out this month and predict impending doom.

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Patrick Garratt
11/05/09, 1:42 pm

Mike –

Blerk – The Wii demolishing bit’s a foregone conclusion. I’ll do “DS demolishes PS2″ next month.

#11

Tonka
11/05/09, 1:56 pm

No patch for Pachter?

#12

warlock7
11/05/09, 3:24 pm

Wow what a spin!!!

Shouldn’t the article be more along the lines of “Nintendo demolishes all comers!”, but that wouldn’t address the spin towards Microsoft, now would it?

#13

The Benny
11/05/09, 3:30 pm

Warlock, Pat explained that just two posts above you. The Wii being on top isn’t newsworthy, whereas a big gap between the other two is slightly more so.

#14

Psychotext
11/05/09, 3:40 pm

EEDAR numbers are up: http://gonintendo.com/wp-content/photos/hardest.jpg

#15

Shatner
11/05/09, 4:08 pm

I can quote an area where 360 is 100% down from last month.

Would that be regarded as newsworthy?

#16

anasui
11/05/09, 4:08 pm

reading the ps3forums will be a pleasure as usual

#17

Patrick Garratt
11/05/09, 4:10 pm