Looking for some sales info

**Opaque** · 01 Jan 2005, 03:42 PM

I continuely see sales charts for companies and products in general, but I can't ever seem to find them. I was hoping someone could either tell me where to go look myself, or be super special extra jumbo awesometacular and give me the lists straight out. Currently I'm looking for two things:

1. Top selling PSX games of all time.

2. System sales wordlwide for 2002, 2003 and if already available 2004.

Any help of any sort is appreciated.

**Mykozo** · 02 Jan 2005, 01:40 AM

Maybe this will help.
Posted by: BabyJesus on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - 10:09 PM

Found these over at the GA Forums...

February Hardware Sales

PS2: 363,000 [+7% over January sales]
Xbox: 204,000 [+6%]
GCN: 137,000 [+5%]
GBA: 353,000 [+18%]

Cumulative Installed Base

PS2: 22,958,000
Xbox: 8,187,000
GCN: 7,133,000
GBA: 20,601,000

Tie Ratios

PS2: 8.10
Xbox: 6.58
GCN: 6.09
GBA: 3.42

US Top 20 Videogame Titles

(Ranked in $$$, not units)

1 GCN FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLE Nintendo $11,912,520 243,380
2 PS2 NFL STREET Electronic Arts $8,360,043 167,935
3 PS2 NEED FOR SPEED: UNDERGROUND Electronic Arts $5,813,065 120,155
4 PS2 BOND 007: EVERYTHING OR NOTHING Electronic Arts $5,747,493 115,944
5 PS2 CHAMPS OF NORRATH:REALMS Sony $5,048,062 101,684
6 PS2 MAFIA Take 2 Interactive $4,407,365 88,473
7 XBX BOND 007: EVERYTHING OR NOTHING Electronic Arts $4,373,694 88,038
8 GBA M ETROID ZERO MISSION Nintendo $4,364,623 151,807
9 PS2 SONIC HEROES Sega $4,185,546 84,098
10 PS2 JET LI: RISE TO HONOR Sony $4,151,180 104,084
11 GCN MARIO KART : DOUBLE Nintendo $3,973,327 81,233
12 GCN SONIC HEROES Sega $3,752,389 76,506
13 PS2 MADDEN NFL 2004 Electronic Arts $3,355,022 69,684
14 PS2 BALDURS GATE:ALLIANCE II Vivendi $3,158,646 65,234
15 PS2 TRUE CRIME: STREETS OF LA Activision $3,112,333 65,472

Source: CSFB/Wedbush Morgan estimates based on NPD Funworld data.

February Videogame Sales Results
• Overall videogame software sales were up 5.4% year over year for the month of February. 128-bit software sales were up 5.6% year over year, and GBA software sales were up 50% y/y. 128-bit hardware sales were down 6% y/y in February as the $179 price point is stretched further, bringing the install base of 128-bit consoles to 38.3 million in the U.S. GBA hardware sales grew 25% y/y, bringing the install base to 20.6M in the U.S.

• Electronic Arts (ERTS, $47.25, OUTPERFORM, TP $60.00, OW) U.S. videogame sales were stronger than expected for the month of February, up 35% versus last year due to the strength of NFL Street, Bond: Everything or Nothing and Need for Speed: Underground. For the quarter to date, U.S. sales are up 28%, versus overall revenue growth of 22.5% for the March quarter.

• Activision, Inc. (ATVI, $20.12, OUTPERFORM [V], TP $22.00, OW) U.S. sales increased 26% year over year for the month of February, due to the continued strength of True Crime: Streets of LA and THUG. For the quarter to date, U.S. sales are up 31%, versus overall flat revenue growth for the March quarter.

• THQ, Inc. (THQI, $17.77, OUTPERFORM [V], TP $22.00, OW) U.S. sales increased 19% year over year in February driven by WWE Here Comes The Pain, Tak & the Power of JuJu and Spongebob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. For the quarter to date, U.S. sales are up 17%, versus overall revenue growth of 39% for the March quarter.

• For Take Two Interactive (TTWO, $32.00, OUTPERFORM [V], TP $50.00, OW) sales in February were up 29% y/y. The company’s Grand Theft Auto Double Pack continues to sell well with over 260,000 units sold in the quarter between the PS2 and Xbox versions. Midway Games, Inc. (MWY, $6.50, UNDERPERFORM [V], TP $1.50, OW) U.S. sales in the month of February were down 50% year over year.

This was the first hit from a google search for "ps2 sales numbers". Your intelligence never ceases to amaze me.

Here's more, wow these are easy searches.
I have monthly statistics on file for console (Xbox, PlayStation 2, and GameCube) sales in the US per month in 2003 and 2004 (till April 2004). Here they are in a sexy chart. However, I am missing March 2003. I'll add March to the list whenever found.

Update (Sep-2004): May to August 2004 months were added.
Update (Oct-2004): September 2004 was added.
Update (Dec-2004): October and November 2004 were added.

Monthly U.S. Console Hardware Sales
Month PlayStation 2 Xbox GameCube
January 2003 443,334 164,328 79,813
February 2003 484,000 197,000 164,000
March 2003 Data Missing
April 2003 264,000 128,000 101,000
May 2003 288,127 123,614 84,408
June 2003 440,834 166,879 124,080
July 2003 311,000 138,000 127,000
August 2003 291,000 146,000 100,000
September 2003 334,000 172,000 165,000
October 2003 300,000 176,000 254,000
November 2003 850,000 490,000 754,000
December 2003 1,940,000 1,080,000 1,160,000
January 2004 338,000 192,000 131,000
February 2004 363,000 204,000 137,000
March 2004 294,437 198,445 163,028
April 2004 188,669 297,351 96,050
May 2004 253,454 216,997 77,827
June 2004 427,000 262,000 109,000
July 2004 290,000 245,000 93,000
August 2004 211,690 216,911 108,953
September 2004 253,295 265,067 114,789
October 2004 289,000 217,000 110,000
November 2004 694,000 708,000 350,000

You can make a graph (i.e. line graph) if you like.
qwerty710710
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May 28, 2004 - 6:33:53pm CST (edit: 5/28/04 - 6:34pm) 2 of 13
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Xbox finally outsales the ps2 last month. Good job but overall the ps2 has the lead.
superSONIC
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May 28, 2004 - 6:37:56pm CST 3 of 13
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Whoa.. impressive how they jump nearly 10x during December/Christmas.
Shifter
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yeah, thats the christmas spirit for you. lol Looks like some ppl did some early christmas shopping in november.
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August 2004 numbers were released a few days ago, so it's time for an update with the last few months.

May 2004
PS2 - 253,454
Xbox - 216,997
Cube - 77,827

June 2004
PS2 - 427,000
Xbox - 262,000
Cube - 109,000

July 2004
PS2 - 290,000
Xbox - 245,000
Cube - 93,000

August 2004
Xbox - 216,911
PS2 - 211,690
Cube - 108,953

It appears that after the PS2 price drop in May 2004, it reclaimed the lead. But Xbox climbed back to take a small lead in August 2004. I'll update the sexy chart with these four new months soon.

**Opaque** · 02 Jan 2005, 01:44 AM

I could kiss you.

**Mykozo** · 02 Jan 2005, 01:45 AM

And here's 2002 from PCworld.

PlayStation 2 Sales Begin to Slide

Sony's next console, PlayStation 3, won't be available until 2004.

Martyn Williams, IDG News Service
Thursday, April 24, 2003

Sony expects shipments of PlayStation 2 consoles to fall this year for the first time, it said Thursday. If it comes true, the prediction means Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony's game subsidiary, will see sales of both of its game consoles declining at least a year ahead of the launch of the third-generation PlayStation machine.

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The Tokyo company, which reported its full year earnings Thursday, said shipments of PlayStation 2 consoles in its fiscal year 2002, ending March 2003, totaled 22.5 million units. That's up a quarter from the year before. Shipments of PlayStation and PSOne consoles totaled 6.8 million, which represents a decline of 8 percent from the year earlier.

For the current fiscal year beginning in April, Sony said it expects to see PlayStation 2 shipments fall by about 12 percent to 20 million units while PlayStation/PSOne shipments will drop more than 60 percent to 2.5 million. The prediction would put total shipments at below the levels recorded in fiscal years 2002 and 2001.
Next Generation Gaming

The company's next generation console, the PlayStation 3, is not expected on the market until at least 2004, if not later. Sony has not commented on when it is likely to be released but disclosed plans earlier this week to build semiconductor plants, along with Toshiba, to produce the Cell microprocessor that is expected to lie at the heart of the machine.

The two companies, which are jointly developing the chip with SCEI and IBM, are spreading their investments in the new factories over the next three or four years. Toshiba said it does not expect to begin mass production of chips until the latter part of fiscal year 2004, which is the period from October 2004 to March 2005.

Shipments of the PlayStation 2 are already falling in Japan, down 38 percent on the year, according to Sony's figures. In contrast, shipments in the U.S. and European markets rose 53 percent and 40 percent respectively. PlayStation/PSOne unit shipments rose in Japan and the U.S., by 20 percent and 13 percent respectively, and dropped 30 percent in Europe.
Software Sales

In the software market, Sony said shipments of PlayStation 2 titles jumped 56 percent to reach 190 million in fiscal year 2002 while those of PlayStation titles dropped by about a third to 61 million. For the current year Sony predicts total software shipments will hit 250 million units which represents a decline of 1 million units from fiscal year 2002.

PlayStation 2 software unit shipments rose in all geographic regions, up 25 percent in Japan, up 64 percent in the U.S., and up 70 percent in Europe, and PlayStation/PSOne software unit shipments fell in all regions, down 50 percent in Japan, 14 percent in the U.S., and 42 percent in Europe. A decrease in the number of in-house titles meant that, in monetary terms, Sony saw a decline in revenue from PlayStation 2 shipments despite the unit shipment gains.

Cuts in the price of the console, the result of an ongoing battle with Microsoft's Xbox, hit revenues from sales.