Mon, Mar 08, 2010 | 21:02 GMT

PS3 only console up in Feb NPD, says Pachter and EEDAR

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Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter and EEDAR have both estimated that the only hardware to see a sales increase in February in the US was PS3, will all other consoles sliding back year-on-year.

Here’s the lot, thanks to Edge.

Wedbush / EEDAR February hardware sales estimates (change year-on-year):

Wii – 455,000 (-40%) / 425,000 (-44%)
DS – 425,000 (-28%) / 401,000 (-32%)
PS3 – 300,000 (+9%) / 280,000 (+1%)
Xbox 360 – 350,000 (-10%) / 335,000 (-14%)
PSP – 95,000 (-52%) / 90,000 (-55%)
PS2 – 45,000 (-66%) / 50,000 (-62%)
Total – 1,670,000 (-29%) / 1,581,000 (-32%)

Pachter predicted yet another software decline at the month, the eleventh in the past year, but reckoned February is “the last cloud on the horizon”.

He added that he expects “industry sales to improve significantly starting in March, with a rebound to positive territory as high-profile games begin to be released on a more consistent basis (top March games are Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Final Fantasy XIII, Pokémon, and God of War III).”

Fingers crossed, then. The NPD lands this Thursday, smack in the middle of GDC. Joy.

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3 comments

Razor
08/03/10, 9:12 pm

PS3 seemed to be having stock issues in the US, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it actually declined.

Psychotext
08/03/10, 9:38 pm

I doubt it’ll be down year on year, in Feb 09 it was a good 100k behind the competition and stock would have to be at disastrous levels to match that.

Goliath
09/03/10, 3:55 am

Year over year growth means little if the raw figures still puts you behind the competition.