Pachter: PS3 beat Xbox 360 in August

  • Posted September 9th, 2008 at 05:51 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has posted his latest US hardware estimations ahead of official NPD figures, putting Sony’s PlayStation 3 ahead of Xbox 360 for the month of August 2008.

Pachter forecast PS3 sales of 225,000, beating out Microsoft’s competing platform at 200,000, with the Wii taking the lead again at 550,000 units sold.

Furthermore, the analyst expects overall software sales to exceed USD 600 million, a year-on-year increase of 23 per cent.

"We don't believe that Wii sell-through increased dramatically in August, as we did not see incremental supply at retail. The company promised that supplies would increase during the summer due to higher manufacturing capacity coming online some time in July, but we believe that the higher supply began to show up only in September,” noted Pachter.

NPD figures will be released on Thursday, September 11.

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  1. butter | xLeGiT--

    • 5:57am BST - September 9th, 2008

    first. Ps3 > 360

  2. PS3-The Ultimate Machine

    • 6:00am BST - September 9th, 2008

    September 11?That's my sis's Birthday.

  3. T-Dogg400 | T-Dogg400

    • 6:39am BST - September 9th, 2008

    As always PS3 will always beat the 360 by a mile.

  4. Smith128 | smith128

    • 6:58am BST - September 9th, 2008

    I wonder how many months so far this year that PS3 beat Xbox? They must be leading overall.

  5. ryesher | ryesher1

    • 7:12am BST - September 9th, 2008

    My PS3 died today aww crap I never thought it would happen to me stupid yellow light.... so my PS3 isn't going to beat xbox anymore this month....

  6. rexdeath | rexdeath

    • 7:15am BST - September 9th, 2008

    Ouch, I can't believe the amount of idiots that would by a PS3 over the 360. If the PS3 is not better than it in any area it's definitely close and will surpass it eventually.

  7. Staticneuron | Staticneuron

    • 7:18am BST - September 9th, 2008

    Hasn't this dude been wrong before? And rexdeath, my PS3 now gets more playtime than my 360. and thats partially due to me not wanting RRoD again.

  8. Alpha2

    • 8:06am BST - September 9th, 2008

    Ugh, forget it. allergies are messing with my eyes. that isnt what I thought I saw before... he's still a deushebag though, I dont trust him.

  9. knowledge4lfe | knowledge4lfe

    • 8:08am BST - September 9th, 2008

    ryesher: i just wanted to say sorry man, that totally sucks. i hope u have a warranty. mine is up ,if it blows. i already got the rrod on my 3fixme. but ps3 is my platform of choice.

  10. ryesher | ryesher1

    • 8:43am BST - September 9th, 2008

    @9

    Thanks, I know I can't believe it, its out of the warranty as well, so sony are sending me a refurbished one. Not crazy on the idea but Im not paying £200 to have it fixed I cant afford it right now with bills to pay etc.

    I heard its only a 1% failure what ticks me off is its used a couple of hours a day less than my friends. Who play cod4 literally all night.

    On the plus Sony said they would send a replacement tomorrow, are refurbished consoles ok, I mean I don't want something that is dented and scratched?

  11. dwightkshrute | IAMTHECAVALRY

    • 9:11am BST - September 9th, 2008

    wow, the PS3 has been ouselling 360 nearly every month since november 2007. that is sad on 360's part

    honestly with 360 pricecuts, who would still buy a 360, anyone that wanted one already has one

  12. princevegeta1980

    • 10:23am BST - September 9th, 2008

    @ryesher, if all the great games coming out it's ashame to spend so much on fixing your PS3, I got my console on day 1 and got 250hrs gameplay withh ff12 and 2 days with cod4 online not to mention 150hrs with GTA4, glad i still have 18months garantee left!

  13. dam6655 | dam6655

    • 11:54am BST - September 9th, 2008

    @smith128

    The ps3 has beat the Xbox360  6 of the 8 monthes, so far.

  14. Cesarcsrf | Cesarcsrf

    • 1:46pm BST - September 9th, 2008

    but even so wii sells more than PS3 plus 360... i just don't get it........... why?

  15. edward_moffet | edd

    • 3:37pm BST - September 9th, 2008

    just for the record refurbished consoles are completely fine and work just as good as a brand new unit so now worries ryesher

  16. PS3fan78

    • 4:16pm BST - September 9th, 2008

    Every one I know that has a 360 gaybox had to buy another one do to breaking donw some bought 3, saying that sht box maybe only has lower sales if it wasn't for those gaybox lover

     

  17. GunTeng

    • 5:16pm BST - September 9th, 2008

    I didn't think people would care any more about the PS3/360 race.

    I thought everyone would be too busy enjoying what the consoles offer through their games at this point. But going by some responses, it looks like I was wrong.

     

    Of course Pachter has been wrong before, but he has been right often enough to be given some credit. Either way, I don't care.

    The PS3 offers me what I want compared to any other platform (still) and tahts all taht matters to me.

  18. deniled

    • 5:39pm BST - September 9th, 2008

    I use to look at this type of stuff in November 2006 and maybe beginning of 2007 but now I am just enjoying my favorite game console. The Playstation 3

  19. Shalashaaska | Shalashaaska

    • 6:40pm BST - September 9th, 2008


    @2  That sucks dude...

  20. ryesher | ryesher1

    • 7:35pm BST - September 9th, 2008

    @15

    Thank you I am eagerly awaiting my replacement.

    @19

    LOL

  21. nastanley

    • 2:28pm BST - September 10th, 2008

    this is good, even though the difference isn't that great. Well I hope things get better for sony and thus the ps3.

  22. TheWorldEndsWithMe | DonovanTheICEMAN

    • 3:58pm BST - September 10th, 2008

    Why do they even mention Wii?

         ...bringin' that trash in here.... this is MY house!

  23. evilmonkey501 | evilmonkey501

    • 12:50am BST - September 12th, 2008

    omg this guy is ALWAYS WRONG..

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