28 Million Xbox 360 consoles have been sold worldwide according to Microsoft.
In October, it was stated that 16.84 Million PlayStation3 consoles had been sold worldwide.
Nintendo announced on October 30th that they had achieved sales of 34.55 Million Wii consoles worldwide.
In June, Gartner released their estimates on the worldwide market for wireless gaming revenue in 2008 and put their number at $4.5 Billion. Other points include:
Tuong Huy Nguyen is the principal analyst, and Madhusudan Gupta, is the senior analyst at Gartner covering the sector.
PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA) unveiled some findings in August from its “Horizons” Report, a research study of the PC gaming industry worldwide and found:
A research report by Pearl Research has data on the Vietnam market for online games. Here are the figures:
Interactive Software Association of New Zealand (Isanz) numbers show:
Just found a Health e-Games Market Report authored by Andy Donner, director of Physic Ventures. It has interesting data including:
There is an AP article today talking about the market for games in the US, based on Pew Internet & American Life Project’s research released yesterday. Here are some data points:
There’s more data, but these are the important points.
Capcom and GRIN announced that Bionic Commando had sold 130,000 units in the first week across PSN and XBLA. At a 70/30 publisher/platform split on a $10 game, they likely grossed $910,000 in the first week.
Digitimes reported Anyalysys International’s numbers for the Chinese Online games market.
Revenues are up 65.9% this year to 4.43 billion yuan ($637 Million)
They also break down the marketshares of the top operators in China:
| Company | Share | Renenue* |
| Shanda | 17.9% | $114,023,000 |
| NetEase | 12.8% | $82,173,000 |
| Giant | 11.4% | $72,618,000 |
| The 9 | 10.9% | $69,433,000 |
| Tencent | 10.5% | $66,885,000 |
| Sohu | 7.4% | $47,138,000 |
| Perfect World | 7.4% | $47,138,000 |
| 9You | 5.6% | $35,672,000 |
| NetDragon | 3.8% | $24,206,000 |
| Kingsoft | 2.8% | $17,836,000 |
| China.com | 1.7% | $10,829,000 |
| Other | 7.8% | $49,686,000 |
| TOTAL | 100% | |
| NOTE: *(Reverse Engineered from Percentages provided by DIGITIMES) | ||
GameIndustry Biz reported today that an analysis of the NPD numbers gives the following breakdowns of Per Unit Sales: