American stat-trackers NPD have released their fabulous February findings – and for only the 2nd time since the Wii’s launch in 2006, the Xbox 360 was the top-selling home console in the region.

While the folks in Redmond are obviously doing a happy dance, there’s probably a good reason for their victory. US supplies of both the PS3 and the Wii are constrained. Still it IS a victory – Both the 360 (up 90 000 units from Jan) and the PS3 ( up 83 200 units) actually saw an increase in sales over January, with the Wii being the only one that saw a significant sales drop. Compared to last year’s February figures, the Wii is in sharp decline – 397,900 units, down from 793,000 in 2009.

I’d still like to have seen the figures if the Wii and PS3 were in regular supply though. Figures after the jump.

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The Xbox 360 has been ahead of the PS3 since launch as it had that extra years head start on it, however the PS3 has been selling exceptionally well in the last couple of months and I thought it was about time we took a look at the unofficial stats to see just how much closer the PS3 has gotten to regaining 2nd place.

Let’s first get the Wii out of the way, it’s dominating in every region  and has a lead of 2.1 Million over the Xbox 360 and PS3 combined.

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I’m still waiting on the official Christmas results but the latest sales rankings in Japan have put the Wii miles ahead of it’s competition once again.

The PS3 is still doing well but nothing like what it did when Final Fantasy was released and the Xbox 360 is still sputtering along, but at least it beat the PSP Go I guess.

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Christmas is just around the corner and the sales figures are all about to receive a huge boost as the moms and dads of the world head out to buy little Johnny and Suzie that console they always wanted.

So to accurately measure who wins the Christmas season let’s take a look at where everyone currently stands according to VGChartz. Which whether anyone likes it or not is the best way to measure international sales from a 3rd parties point of view.

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I know that the title for this post seems seriously flame-bait-ish but it isn’t because the stats are pretty scary.

According to the investor relations page on Sony.net, Playstation is currently nearing the very scary figure of $5 billion dollars in losses ( that’s 39.5 Billion Rand). Now I don’t know about you but that seems like a seriously large amount of money to be losing.

Most consoles start off running at a loss but the money is usually made up later with licenses and game sales and so on but you really have to wonder how big Sony really is to be able to take losses this huge over such a long period of time without crumbling down.

Stats after the jump.

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Bayonetta has been released in Japan already and with the first days sales figures coming in we can now see whether the Japanese are going to be loyal to the inferior PS3 version or are going to fork out for the higher quality Xbox 360 version.

Is it all about the gameplay or is pixel count more important?

Well I know I for one can’t wait to find out..

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Microsoft’s PR team has been on the offensive since the NPD figures were released showing the PS3 as the top console in America.

David Dennis, an Xbox spokesman, is the latest to throw his thoughts into the hat and I have to say I agree with most of it.

According to Mr Dennis

“We feel great about our numbers, and we expected Sony to have a great month," […] "We expect it to be short-term and we expect them to be back down to third place soon like they’ve always been”

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Some Mr Pachter has become famous for making bold predictions that he never has to answer for and he’s at it again.

According to his most recent analysis he expects the PS3 to have outsold the Xbox 360 in September and to continue doing so for the rest of the year due to it’s new price tag.

The PS3 is now priced appropriately and with Blu-Ray sales starting to become more mainstream it does appear that Sony has the upper hand going into this silly season.

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That’s it, it’s all over. The latest* Japanese sales are in and the PS3 sales have fallen of a cliff with reports coming in of a 300% drop in sales in merely a week.

Unsurprisingly the Sony execs are holding emergency meetings as we speak to see if there is anyway to stop the PS3 from bringing down the entire company and the Japanese economy along with it.

Microsoft are said to be monitoring the devastation as it unfolds and have commented that they are worried that the collapse of the Japanese economy may impact on their home territory as well.

Nintendo have refused to comment on such irresponsible journalism and have claimed that this is nothing more than scaremongering.

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Japans PS3 Slim sales figures have been released after it’s first full week and it is doing pretty well indeed. In the last week 151 743 PS3 Slims have been taken home in the land of the rising sun.

The DSi is next in line with 60,419 then comes the PSP way back with 22,184 closely followed by the Wii with 21,557.

The DS Lite is up next with 8,309 with the 360 in a pitiful last spot with 6,827 because we don’t count the PS2’s 3,001 sales anymore.

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The PS3 Slim has hit retail shelves around the world and from first appearances it looks like this is going to work out really well for Sony.

Let’s get the rubbish out of the way first, any stories trumpeting the 1000% increase in sales or any other such number are BS, the PS3 sales slumped after the Slim was announced for obvious reasons and new products sell more in the first while than they do on average. Therefore no % increase can be worked out yet. Deal with it.

Now for the good news, it appears that 500 000 of the new sleak PS3’s have been sold and this number is being backed up by oddball reports from all over the glorious Internet.

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So the PS3 has just received the much awaited (and just in time) price cut. The price cut was announced last week at GamesCon, slashing the price by $100. This will surely help the sales of the PS3, I think so and so do the guys at the NPD Group.

Specifically one analyst, Anita Frazier, seems to think that the PS3 will sell 40-60% more. That is a fairly large increase and is surely what Sony have been waiting for. “The $299 price point is important to getting to a point where the next segment of price-conscious consumers can jump into the market and it most certainly will re-energize sales of the platform,” said Frazier when speaking to Information week.

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Michael Pachter our gaming clairvoyant has been at it again and this time he is having a go at both Nintendo and Sony for sticking to their pricing structure for too long and negatively affecting the sales figures.

Nintendo have unbelievably not dropped their price since they released the Wii even though they have sold the hardware at a profit from day one and have ample room for price drops.

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Activision were in the news for all the wrong reasons recently when their CEO, Bobby Kotick, threatening to pull support for the PS3 unless it received a price drop.

Well according to the latest Activision financials the PS3 brought in a cool $152 million in 3 months which makes you think that Bobby could never go through with that threat.

However this doesn’t take into consideration the costs of developing the titles which may indeed be higher than $152 million, though I doubt it.

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EA Games have just released their latest financials and there are some surprises buried deep in the boredom.

First up lets look at the completely unsurprising results, the Wii leads the pack bringing in $161 million with the PC not so far behind on $124 million.

Then the surprise pops up, the PS3 is third with $121 million while the 360 is miles behind in 4th with $73 million… The PS3’s baby sister (PSP) also manages a small victory by beating the Nintendo DS $38 million to $28 million.

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