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May 16, 2008
xbox 360 is getting PWNED
Today seems all about ownage. NPD market data for the console gaming industry was released for April, and it's rather fascinating to slice up. Despite Microsoft's skewed insistence that the Xbox 360 is "uniquely positioned" to "win the generation battle", it was smacked down in NPD metrics by the Nintendo Wii (1st place), the Nintendo DS (2nd place) and the ... get this ... Sony PSP (Playstation Portable) coming in strong with a third place showing. That's right - the 360 didn't even pull the bronze medal this month.
Most of the problem is that Microsoft still seems to try and play number parity with the Wii and Playstation 3, yet was released almost a year before both. I can understand why they want to downplay the numbers, as it's easy to get ahead with a 12-month headstart. However, the Wii is close to closing on the 360's "lead", so I'm not sure the Microsoft sandbagging is going to hold much longer.
Posted by Scott at May 16, 2008 1:16 PM