Oh Wait I’m a Week Late, it’s NPD Time of the Month
I’m a week behind here but for good reason, I’m sick. I’ve been battling this awful cold for a week now. Anyways it’s that time of the month where the NPD group releases video game hardware and software sales. So how do December do? I think the industry did quite well and hopefully all of you got what accessories, games and hardware you were looking for.
How many Nintendo DS’s do you all own? seriously over 3 million units last month while the PSP 3000 and PSP GO! did a combined 654 thousand units. What was a little more surprised that the PlayStation 3 barely outsold the Xbox 360.
Hardware sales for the month of December 2009
- Wii – 3,810,000
- Nintendo DS – 3,310,000
- PlayStation 3 – 1,360,000
- Xbox 360 – 1,310,000
- PSP – 654,700
- PlayStation 2 – 333,2000
As I expected New Super Mario Bro’s sold a ton of copies and in some parts of Toronto a copy was hard to find. Modern Warfare 2 still continues to rack up those sales pushing total sales to over $1 billion US.
Software Sales for the month of December 2009
01. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) – 2,820,000
02. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) – 2,410,000
03. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) – 1,790,000
04. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360) – 1,630,000
05. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) – 1,120,000
06. Wii Play (Wii) – 1,010,000
07. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) – 936,1000
08. Assassin’s Creed II (Xbox 360) – 783,1000
09. Left 4 Dead 2 (Xbox 360) – 728,500
10. Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story (DS) – 656,700
Holiday Sales Prediction
it’s coming to that time of year again, the ever so crazy holiday season where we see hundred’s of video game titles. I’ve put together my list of what I think will be the best selling video games.
Game Title
Wii Resort
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Guitar Hero 5 ( Game Only)
Guitar Hero 5 (Bundle)
Dirt 2
Beatles Rock Band (Game Only)
Beatles Rock Band (Bundle)
Scribblenauts
NHL 10
Halo ODST
Dead Space Extraction
PSP GO! (new PSP Hardware)
Brutal Legend
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Forza Motorsport 3
DJ Hero
Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Assassins Creed 2
Tony Hawk Ride
New Super Mario Bros
Grant Turismo 5 PS3 Q4 2009
The Hottest News (from last week – sorry)
Okay, so last week’s news might not be the best way to start a week, but lots went on last week that I didn’t get a chance to cover. Without further ado, here are the stories that piqued my interest last week:
- Nintendo is doing Karaoke right on the Wii. Joysound will provide online subscriptions to millions of songs rather than individually downloaded tracks. Japan only for now. If this comes to North America, I’ll get tons more use out of my dust collector Wii.
- Speaking of Nintendo, they’ve announced the DSi. Main features include bigger dual touch screens (3.25″), a .3 megapixel camera, and built-in memory. They’ve also removed the GBA cartridge slot to incorporate a sleeker design. Wait, doesn’t Guitar Hero: On Tour require that slot to work?
- Punch-Out!!! for the Wii. You read that right. Punch-Out!!! for the Wii. *drool*
- According to this thread on Rockband.com, there is a SERIOUS bug in Rock Band 2. When playing World Tour with the leader signed in as an Xbox Live member and a second player signed in as a non-Xbox Live member (2 different profiles), many users report losing some or all of their save data between sets. Hasn’t happened to me yet, but I’ll be cautious from here out. 17 pages at time of publishing and no response from Harmonix yet.
Thursday marks the start of the Tokyo Gaming Show, which I intend to follow. I promise to cover as much of it here as I can (truly flakes… I will).
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