Originally posted by LarsVerb
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As NPD no longer releases full hardware sales figures, this feature is reliant on the game companies, namely Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony, to release their set of figures and based on “statement math” (that is, arithmetically calculate missing figures based on statements made). For March 2012, these are the statements made by the gaming companies:
Nintendo revealed that “nearly” 175,000 Wiis were sold in March (via IGN)
Microsoft revealed 371,000 Xbox 360 units were sold, with 42% of the home based console market share (source)
Sony did not reveal any figures for the PS3
A little bit of “statement maths” tells us that a little more than 337,000 PS3s were sold.
And so the figures for US sales in February 2012 are below, ranked in order of number of sales (March 2011 figures also shown when available, including percentage change):
Xbox 360: 371,000 (Total: 33.7 million; March 2011: 433,000 – down 14.3%)
PS3: 337,000 (Total: 20.7 million; March 2011: N/A)
Wii: 175,000 (Total: 39.3 million; March 2011: 290,000 – down 39.7%)
This stuff is from NPD which says sony didn't release there figure so wonder where these other sites are getting there info
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