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Activision CEO Mike Griffith announced today the company’s expected console install base for North America and Europe by the end of 2009.

• Handhelds: 108 million
• Wii: 50 million
• Xbox 360: 33 million
• PS3: 20 million
• Total: 211 million

Expectations for the console install base were lowered by one million units.

The figures came from the publisher’s Q2 earnings call.

EEDAR’s released its February NPD estimates, and they’re pretty much the same as Michael Pachter’s, released earlier today.

• DS – 500,000
• Wii – 725,000
• PSP – 200,000
• PS3 – 200,000
• 360 – 300,000

Check Edge for the software estimates. The final figures release this Thursday.

EEDAR’s put out its US sales estimates for October, predicting a Wii rise of nearly 45 percent to 750,000 units compared to the 519,000 sold in October 2007.

Xbox 360 will take a year-on-year tumble, said the firm, down from 366,000 to 270,000.

PS3, however, should have enjoyed a surge compared to the corresponding previous period, up from 121,000 to 220,000.

Fable II is expected to lead software sales for the month, with 750,000 units estimated.

More on GoNintendo.

EEDAR’s released its software and hardware estimates for September, showing what it expects to be a significant bump for 360. PS3′s in last place, according to the firm, although the list doesn’t include PS2.

And the crystal ball says:

Hardware

• DS – 600,000
• Wii – 600,000
• Xbox 360 – 320,000
• PSP – 235,000
• PS3 – 215,000

Software

1. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – 360 – 505,000
2. Rock Band 2 – 360 – 465,000
3. FIT W/ BALANCE BOARD – Wii – 450,000
4. Mercenaries 2: World in Flames – 360 – 350,000
5. PLAY W/ REMOTE – Wii – 275,000
6. MARIO KART W/ WHEEL – Wii – 275,000
7. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – Wii – 245,000
8. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – PS3 – 230,000
9. MADDEN NFL 09 – 360 – 177,220
10. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – PS2 – 175,000

Thanks, GoNintendo.

EEDAR’s made its August hardware estimates pitching Wii and DS clear of a cumulative 1 million units and PS3 ahead of 360.

DS – 551,000
Wii – 505,000
PSP – 211,000
PS3 – 201,000
360 – 187,000

That Wii figure’s worth watching. EEDAR’s put a note in its press release saying the machine may sell well under 500,000 units due to channel-throttling in advance of Christmas.

We’ll know soon enough. Full thing after the break. Thanks, GoNintendo.

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Speaking exclusively to videogaming247, Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter has released his global hardware sales forecast for 2008.

“I expect US and European Wii sales of 15 million units this year, expect sales of 360 to be 6.8 million, and expect sales of PS3 to be 10.3 million,” he said. “I expect Japanese sales of 3.5 million Wiis, 2.8 million PS3 and 300,000 Xbox 360s.”

Pachter earlier gave total estimates for the two machines in the US and Europe when speaking about projected GTA IV sales, saying that by year-end he expected 16.3 million PS3s and 21.3 million Xbox 360s to be installed in the two main gaming territories outside Japan.

Which is all a tad academic if you’re Nintendo, obviously: another 18.5 million Wii sales this year is hardly going to harm its cause.