Hey gang. I haven't put charts or useless statistics in one of these threads for over a month. Mostly because the weekly numbers and rankings have remained so consistent, there really hasn't been much of interest to say. However, the combined past 5 weeks as a whole have made for some pretty interesting changes.
Just between the DS/PSP, the DS's total share was 63.4% to PSP's 36.6%. However, since DS has been doing even better than that recently, it's now nudged up a bit to 63.6% against 36.4%. The've both remained in the 63.something and 36.something range since the week of April 4, though.
Nearly 1K Xboxen sold. Nearly 2K GBA sold. Nearly 14K GCN have sold. Over 56K GBASP sold. Nearly 103K PSP sold. Over 148K PS2 sold. Nearly 199K DS sold.
Thanks to those DS sales, Nintendo hardware has outsold Sony hardware, though the change in YTD shares is pretty minor (from 56.8/43.0/0.2 to 55.7/44.1/0.2).
If DS were to continue selling 40,000 units a week, it would hit 3 million within 7 weeks. If PSP continues selling 21,000 units a week, it will hit 2 million within 21 weeks.
5 weeks ago the "If DS stopped selling" date for PSP to catch up was June 20, 2006. Now it is September 12, 2006.
My first chart is pretty standard: YTD numbers.
Then I decided to return to an idea from a few months back. I decided to match up the DS's worst week to the PSP's worst week, and so on. At the time since DS had the lowest weeks overall it was the loser in the low parts of the chart and the winner on the high end. Things have changed quite a bit, though there are still a few parts where PSP remains ahead.
Then:
Now:
