Playstation 3, A Casualty of war?

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According to NPD the Xbox 360 sold 1.3 million consoles in December compared with 798,000 for the Playstation 3. The Wii sold 1.35 million.

Total install base in the US of the XBOX 360 is 9.2 million consoles. Playstation 3 has 3.3 million and the Wii 7.4 million.

The bestselling game Call of Duty 4 (that was released on both platforms, the best selling overall game was Halo3) sold 1.5 million on XBOX 360 outselling the Playstation 3 version by a factor of 3:1.

The problem third party developers have had with the Playstation 3 also showed in the statistics. 33 third party games had made it into the top 10 of the best selling on all platforms. Only five Playstation 3 games did the same.

Consumers spend $13.7 billion on the Video Game Console Industry (not including PC games) in 2007. $4.8 billion was on the XBOX 360, $3.5 on the Wii and $2.2 on the Playstation 3.

While Sony is clearly in front with Blu-ray in the HD format war they seem to be loosing in equal numbers when it comes to next generation games.

Could they have risked the Playstation as a gaming console in order to win the next generation HD movie format?

Source: NPD

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