Analyst Reports September hardware sales PS3 and Wii sales fall

(compiled/wendy) sales of video game hardware, software and equipment fell 8% to $1.2 billion in September this year, according to the latest monthly report by Market Research institute NPD Group.　　As NPD announced no longer counting monthly sales figures, we could only obtain this information from other sources, and Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter, a broker, provided some of the data missing from the NPD report. Pachter said PS3 sales of 312,000 units, down 37% from a year earlier, last September, the PS3 host price reduction and Sony also launched a ultra-thin PS3 host (PS3 Slim), PS3 sales soared 30%, compared with last year, the situation is not quite the same.　　PS3 's sales were expected to be 275,000 before Pachter, but the drop in the body sensing device PS move and PS3 (160G) led to a slightly higher September sales than previously estimated.　　Sales of Nintendo's Wii are down 45%, only 254,000, due to the player's tiredness and lack of follow up.　　Microsoft's Xbox9 month sales rose 37% to 484,000 units, "Halo: To Far star," a huge success in the IPO, August Microsoft announced the Xbox360 Elite version of the price of 100 U.S. dollars, which has affected sales, Xbox360 is also the only one compared to the same period last year's increase in sales of the host. Overall, sales of home appliances have fallen from the same period last year. 20%,pachter that Apple has grabbed some of the market share for the gaming industry, and there is reason to believe that the ipod touch is eating away at the handheld market, and hopes that the N3DS, released in 2011, will be launched in Japan February 26. The US and Europe will be on the market in March. (Edit/Ming)