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. I'm starting off this thread with the SW comparison with the Wii.
First, PS3 sold ~600m SW LTD by the end of FY11, and ~153.9M SW in FY12 for PS2/PS3(when Sony started bundling consoles). Considering PS2's insignificance(only 7.9M SW shipped in Fy11), the numbers were mostly thanks to the PS3, that'd put it at >740M by the end of FY12.
The Wii:
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/img/data_wii.png
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/index.html
For the 3 quarters combined of FY13 Sony platforms are at 283M, already beating the entire last fiscal year by 20M. (Sony platforms sold 126M SW in the last quarter alone, compared to less than 40M for Nintendo.)
The biggest driver of these sales is the PS3, PS4 only contributed 9.7M of this and Vita probably didn't do much better. Considering it's competitor 3DS is just shy of 60M SW but has 5-6x the total install base of the Vita it's safe to say Vita SW is no more than 15-20m and this is an optimistic estimate.
3DS LTD HW 42.74M http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=759731
Vita LTD HW ~7.5M http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=767186
So this is my guesstimate: If Sony's other active platforms contributed less than 50M for the total SW number, that'd leave PS3 with 230M software shipped and sold through PSN.
With my previous guesstimate for the LTD SW of PS3 at the end of FY12 being ~740M, +230M for Q1+Q2+Q3 FY13
Total PS3 SW numbers= 950-970M
The last known PS3 SW numbers date from FY11 and PS3 shipped 156.6M SW back then.
Sony uses a different methodology from FY13 onwards for their software sales numbers. They now report packaged software(sell-in) and PSN (sell-through) numbers combined. Considering PSN sales are now included which means the numbers will be higher than previous years when only shipped was reported, and big blockbuster titles like GTA V and TLOU
were released in FY13, I think my guesttimate of 200-230M is a very plausible number.
Which brings me to my next point, a look at Sony's PSN sales...
This is a slide from last FY
This is a slide from this FY
Notice how the SW numbers for FY12 don't match up when you compare them.
FY12 of FY12 slide
Packaged SW(all platforms): 182.7M
FY12 of FY13 slide
Software(retail shipped+digitally sold): 266M
A discrepancy of 83.3M, and this I reckon is the total digital sold number.
. I'm starting off this thread with the SW comparison with the Wii.
First, PS3 sold ~600m SW LTD by the end of FY11, and ~153.9M SW in FY12 for PS2/PS3(when Sony started bundling consoles). Considering PS2's insignificance(only 7.9M SW shipped in Fy11), the numbers were mostly thanks to the PS3, that'd put it at >740M by the end of FY12.
The Wii:
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/img/data_wii.png
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/index.html
For the 3 quarters combined of FY13 Sony platforms are at 283M, already beating the entire last fiscal year by 20M. (Sony platforms sold 126M SW in the last quarter alone, compared to less than 40M for Nintendo.)
The biggest driver of these sales is the PS3, PS4 only contributed 9.7M of this and Vita probably didn't do much better. Considering it's competitor 3DS is just shy of 60M SW but has 5-6x the total install base of the Vita it's safe to say Vita SW is no more than 15-20m and this is an optimistic estimate.
3DS LTD HW 42.74M http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=759731
Vita LTD HW ~7.5M http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=767186
So this is my guesstimate: If Sony's other active platforms contributed less than 50M for the total SW number, that'd leave PS3 with 230M software shipped and sold through PSN.
With my previous guesstimate for the LTD SW of PS3 at the end of FY12 being ~740M, +230M for Q1+Q2+Q3 FY13
Total PS3 SW numbers= 950-970M
The last known PS3 SW numbers date from FY11 and PS3 shipped 156.6M SW back then.
Sony uses a different methodology from FY13 onwards for their software sales numbers. They now report packaged software(sell-in) and PSN (sell-through) numbers combined. Considering PSN sales are now included which means the numbers will be higher than previous years when only shipped was reported, and big blockbuster titles like GTA V and TLOU
were released in FY13, I think my guesttimate of 200-230M is a very plausible number.
Which brings me to my next point, a look at Sony's PSN sales...
This is a slide from last FY
This is a slide from this FY
Notice how the SW numbers for FY12 don't match up when you compare them.
FY12 of FY12 slide
Packaged SW(all platforms): 182.7M
FY12 of FY13 slide
Software(retail shipped+digitally sold): 266M
A discrepancy of 83.3M, and this I reckon is the total digital sold number.