Sony Claims Market Share From Nintendo

It seems that it was only this morning that Nintendo was using NPD stats to claim its biggest month of Wii sales in the U.S.A. ever for this November. Well, Bloomberg is not going to let it lie there, it's pointed out the fact that Sony has "won market share from Nintendo Co.'s Wii player and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 in the U.S. in November as price cuts helped attract users."

And NPD is quite happy to support this with analyst, Anita Frazier (she has had a busy day), stating "The combination of the price cut and seasonal lift gave the PS3 the biggest October-to-November sales increase of any hardware platform".

The figures for November in the U.S.A. break down as follows (these are retail sales):

Wii: 981,000
Xbox 360: 770,000
PlayStation 3: 466,000

Accordingly:



Now, despite our usual acerbic tone, we're not doubting any of these figures. We are, however, expecting to hear fanboys in both camps screaming at each other as soon as this story goes live - shortly before their heads implode due to too much thumb-sucking.

Meanwhile, Microsoft sits in the middle with a healthy grin and solid sales.

^{Source: Bloomberg}