I was over in the marketing department today and got my hands on the following stats that I thought I'd share:
* For the 13th consecutive month, Xbox grew its share of year-over-year monthly console sales -- climbing an additional 19 percent compared to last year -- and hitting a 41 percent share in November.
* Market share on a year-to-date basis for Xbox increased from 24 percent in 2003 to 37 percent in 2004. During the same time, PS2 share dropped from 51 percent to 45 percent.
* Xbox year-over-year console sales for November increased a staggering 61 percent, while PS2 decreased 17 percent.
* Xbox console sales year-to-date for 2004 jumped 48 percent from 2003, while sales for PS2 were down 18 percent.
* Microsoft Game Studios topped the console software charts as the number-one publisher in November, with an 18 percent share of unit sales and an impressive 25 percent share of revenue for the month.
* Overall Xbox year-over-year software unit sales increased 77 percent. During the same time period, PS2 software sales increased only 1 percent.
* Year-to-date software sales for Xbox have improved by 66 percent compared to 2003, tripling the industrys overall software growth of 22 percent. Meanwhile, PS2 year-to-date software sales saw just an 8 percent increase over last year.
