Strategy Analytics has predicted the global market share for PS3 is expected to be around 31 percent for the first quarter of the year. Furthermore the firm expects global sales of said console to reach 14 million.
According to David Mercer, who’s the principal analyst for the firm, Wii sales will hit 17.5 million while Xbox 360 manages 10.5 million for the year.
“Our analysis shows that while Wii sales fell relative to Q109, its share in fact remained constant relative to Q409,” Mercer said.
“The main movement in Q1 2010 was the growing share for Sony’s PS3, at the expense of Microsoft’s Xbox 360.
The PS3 continues to benefit from the price cut last September. This should help the PS3 maintain growth momentum throughout 2010. The introduction of the Natal technology should also help re-energize Microsoft’s Xbox 360 platform in the second half of the year.”
Mercer expects the industry on a whole to fall by 9 percent this year, while Nintendo’s Wii continues to decline thanks to Natal and Move.
Full quencher’s through Industry Gamers.
