February NPD’s
I can’t believe my eyes the Xbox 360 outsells the Nintendo Wii? Seriously? I can’t remember the last time this happened!.
- * Nintendo DS – 613,200
- * Xbox 360 – 422,000
- * Wii – 397,900
- * PlayStation 3 – 360,100
- * PSP – 133,400
- * PlayStation 2 – 101,900
So the juggernauts keep on selling New Super Mario Bros and Modern Warfare 2. I was surprised to see BioShock 2 take the top spot. I was very happy to see Heavy Rain make the top 10.
01. BioShock 2 (Xbox 360) – 562,900
02. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) – 555,600
03. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360) – 314,300
04. Just Dance (Wii) – 275,400
05. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) – 272,500
06. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) – 252,800
07. Mass Effect 2 (Xbox 360) – 246,500
08. Dante’s Inferno (PS3) – 242,500
09. Dante’s Inferno (Xbox 360) – 224,700
10. Heavy Rain (PS3) – 219,300
It’s time for January NPD’s!
January Hardware sales:
Wii – 465,800
Nintendo DS – 422,200
Xbox 360 – 332,800
PlayStation 3 – 276,900/li>
PSP – 100,100
PlayStation 2 – 41,600
The biggest surprised for software sales was Just Dance making the top 10. Congratulations to Bioware on Mass Effect 2 selling over 572 thousand copies
01. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) – 656,700
02. Mass Effect 2 (Xbox 360) – 572,100
03. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) – 555,700
04. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360) – 326,700
05. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) – 310,900
06. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) – 297,600
07. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) – 259,000
08. Army of Two: The 40th Day (Xbox 360) – 246,500
09. Just Dance (Wii) – 191,900
10. Darksiders (Xbox 360) – 171,200
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
It’s that time of the month.NPD numbers!!!!!
A $299.99 120 gig PlayStation 3 soared it’s way outsold the Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 for the first time in a long time. If you recall last month last months NPD post, I predicted the PlayStation 3 would outsell the Xb0x 360.
- Nintendo DS – 524,200
- PlayStation 3 – 491,800
- Wii – 462,800
- Xbox 360 – 352,600
- PSP – 190,400
- PlayStation 2 – 146,000
Software sales for the month of September saw Halo ODST do very well, Wii Resort and Madden 10 do very well. The interesting fact is there isn’t much different between the Madden 10 sales on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.
01. Halo 3: ODST (Xbox 360) – 1,520,000
02. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) – 442,900
03. Madden NFL 10 (Xbox 360) – 298,600
04. Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story (DS) – 258,100
05. The Beatles: Rock Band (Xbox 360) – 254,000
06. Madden NFL 10 (PS3) – 246,500
07. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (Xbox 360) – 236,000
08. Batman: Arkham Asylum (PS3) – 212,500
09. Guitar Hero 5 (Xbox 360) – 210,800
10. The Beatles: Rock Band (Wii) – 208,600
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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