Wii captured 47% of market in ‘09

Report from Ibis Capital says Xbox 360 claimed 35 per cent, leaving PS3 with 18 per cent

Nintendo’s Wii accounted for 47 per cent of the global home console market in 2009, according to a report from Ibis Capital.
Gamasutra reports that of the remainder, Xbox 360 claimed 35 per cent of the market and PS3 just 18 per cent. Total global console revenues hit $30bn.
Looking ahead, Ibis reckons the worldwide console market will hit $40bn by 2013 thanks to further growth in North America and Europe and the expected arrival, in Ibis’ eyes at least, of a new generation of consoles.
The report does add, however, that unless they adapt all three platform holders face significant challenges in the years ahead: “Digital downloadable content and game delivery reduce likelihood of a ninth generation console cycle, creating potentially significant long term issues for Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and GameStop.”
Elsewhere in the report, Ibis estimates that the typical development cost of a current-gen game on Xbox 360 or PS3 now sits at around $15-$30m, meaning most titles have to sell between 500k and 1m units just to break even.

In comparison, the average dev cost of a PS2, Xbox or GameCube title was around $5m-$7m.

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