Dec
14
2006

Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii – More Data

Posted by under Consumer Behavior

Following Heather’s post in the UK, on the surging popularity of game consoles (she omitted Playstation 3 as its not commercially available in the UK), I decided to post some U.S. data comaring queries for the two popular console “playstation 3″ and “Nintendo Wii,” as well as last year’s holiday hit the Xbox 360.
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Some interesting things to note… the combined volume of queries for “Playstation 3″ and “Nintendo Wii” during their peaks in November this year do not equal the volume of queries for Xbox 360 last holiday season. Also, spikes in queries for both consoles this year is relatively short lived, possibly due to store scarcity.
In fact, running a search term suggestion report (most common queries containing “playstation 3″ and “nintendo wii”) reveals several popular queries regarding availability such as; “playstation 3 availability” and “nintendo wii instock.”

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  1. I don’t think anyone really expected the Wii to do as well as it has. Nintendo have really done a good job of promoting the product.

  2. based on two of our web site properties (wii-preorder.com and ps3preorder.info), we started taking emails for free alerts since august. the ratio is almost 3 to 1 favoring nintendo wii. however, our paid alerts subscriber base (on cebuys.com) ratio is 2 to 1 favoring sony ps3!
    conclusion – there are more Wiis available than PS3s thus everybody wants an edge in getting a PS3…

  3. Thats quite intresting, i suppose it comes down to sales figures and from what i have read wii is out selling the ps3, and the there is far availability of the ps3 is quite high compared to the wii although some of the paranoid in us might say nintendo intentionaly held back production.
    As for the xbox who knows but its clear it is starting to effect there sales directly

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