American sales: PS3 beat 360 in August, says Pachter

By Patrick Garratt

Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter has jut posted his hardware sales estimates for August. And here they are:

• Wii – 550,000
• PS3 – 225,000
• 360 – 200,000

The analyst is predicting sales of $600 million, up 23 percent compared to last year’s $489 million.

EEDAR also put out its estimates today, as you can see here.

The firms are almost agreed on the Wii figure, but Iron Mike’s a fair amount up on both PS3 and 360.

NPD data will release on September 11, this Thursday.