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NPD Sales Results for December 2008
- Thread starter EviLore
- Start date
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
Frillen said:
Yep.
Mama Robotnik
Member
Deserves an airing out with results like this.
Xisiqomelir
Member
Solid gj to JoshJS and apujanata. They had the faith in themselves and they have been rewarded.
One more time:
lol@HD gaming
One more time:
lol@HD gaming
AndresON777
shooting blanks
xbhaskarx said:
DING DING DING
DevelopmentArrested
Banned
watership said:
Exactly what Gears 2 isn't. Thanks for clearing that up for us.
Thank you for the thorough drubbing on Guitar Hero, guys. That will teach me to make a mistake on NPD day!
Serious question, now that it's been brought up: has any third party Wii game other than Rock Band / Guitar Hero ever made the top 10 in America? Any non music games?
I believe Mario and Sonic has. Anything else?
Serious question, now that it's been brought up: has any third party Wii game other than Rock Band / Guitar Hero ever made the top 10 in America? Any non music games?
I believe Mario and Sonic has. Anything else?
Grampa Simpson
Banned
Welcome to NeoGAF. I love you.AstroLad said:
Private Hoffman
Banned
2008:
Wii 10.15 million (+61%)
360 4.73 million (+2.3%)
PS3 3.54 million (+38%)
PS2 2.50 million ( - 37%)
NDS 9.95 million ( +17% )
PSP 3.83 million ( 0% )
2007:
Wii 6.29 million
360 4.62 million
PS2 3.97 million
PS3 2.56 million
NDS 8.50 million
PSP 3.82 million
Notes:
Wii/DS sales monstrous. Wii in particular seeing tremendous growth.
360 sales relatively flat despite a large price cut to a mainstream price $199
PS3 sales up 38% for the year with no price cut.
PS2 seeing significant decline.
PSP sales nearly identical YoY
Wii 10.15 million (+61%)
360 4.73 million (+2.3%)
PS3 3.54 million (+38%)
PS2 2.50 million ( - 37%)
NDS 9.95 million ( +17% )
PSP 3.83 million ( 0% )
2007:
Wii 6.29 million
360 4.62 million
PS2 3.97 million
PS3 2.56 million
NDS 8.50 million
PSP 3.82 million
Notes:
Wii/DS sales monstrous. Wii in particular seeing tremendous growth.
360 sales relatively flat despite a large price cut to a mainstream price $199
PS3 sales up 38% for the year with no price cut.
PS2 seeing significant decline.
PSP sales nearly identical YoY
Fenderputty
Banned
AstroLad said:
That's admirable. Lowering yourself to the standards which you so despised. Nice ... :lol
WickedLaharl
Member
holy shit that's not good
wow at the difference
nice!
again, wow at the difference
Flying_Phoenix
Banned
EviLore said:Care of NPD Group
PS2 410K - It just won't die!
PS3 726K - :lol :lol :lol
PSP 1.02M - Impressive
X360 1.44M - Damn good Microsoft.
Wii 2.15M - Not as much as I expected but obviously supply constrained.
DS 3.04M - :lol @ the people thinking Nintendo is going to launch a DS successor soon.
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE 1.46M - Wow.
360 CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR 1.33M* - Damn good Microsoft.
WII FIT W/ BALANCE BOARD 999K- Where'd this come from?
WII MARIO KART W/ WHEEL 878K - Played this a few days ago. Not that bad.
WII GUITAR HERO WORLD TOUR 859K* - Whoa! WTF!?
360 GEARS OF WAR 2 745K* - Damn.
360 LEFT 4 DEAD 629K - Valve is tapping in to console mainstream.
NDS MARIO KART 540K - Where'd you come from?
PS3 CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR 533K - :lol SONY software sales.
WII ANIMAL CROSSING: CITY FOLK 497K* - Nice.
Sleeker said:
All up but SONY platforms.
SimpleDesign said:
That is a beautiful statement, because it's true. ;_; Sells freaking good hardware, but only ever moves software in Japan. x_x
Frillen said:
CFW + Piracy? Aren't those fixed in the 3k? (I'm no pirater/CFW-er). But yeah, I agree that there must be some other reason for buying PSP than software since it does crap. ;_;
DevelopmentArrested said:
Gears 2 isn't exactly casual. It might seem very playable to most of us here, but CoD is like.. bare bones shooter. The type that would appeal to your average casual gamer who doesn't download demos, read GAF or browse the internets.
The concept of taking cover might have turned off a lot of people, thinking that it's too complicated. I just want to point and shoot.
HallucinatingElvis
Banned
Kusagari said:
I was going to post that myself, simply amazed that it has done so well on the 360. Yes it's a great game but it's not your standard 360 shooter.
Opiate said:
Without going through my archives I believe one of the Lego games got into the Top 10. Those who have NPD databases could help me check. Or wikia.
*EDIT Some Wikia checking later, Lego Indiana Jones Wii was 8th in June 2008.
http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/NPD_June_2008
*EDIT2 Resident Evil 4 Wii was 9th in June 2007.
http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/NPD_June_2007
*EDIT3 Didn't Raving Rabbids and Red Steel do well at launch?
I'm sure there are more but I can't be arsed anymore, and Wikia only goes back to Nov 06.Of course, if I'm reading what I'm reading, the argument can be made for third parties on Wii. Two and a half titles (I consider Mario and Sonic to be at least half first-party due to Mario and friends appearing - a Sonic only game will never sell that well) that are not music games from third parties appearing in the Top 10 in the past two years. Phew, although I've sliced the pie so many times that the argument seems a bit watered down.
Things are really wrong with the Wii : if the console was supply constrained, again, why in the world would Nintendo rather sell more during Black Friday ?
Do they.. do they seriously want to not go through the roof on purpose so they can be sure to post a growth for holidays 09 ??
GAF, help.
Do they.. do they seriously want to not go through the roof on purpose so they can be sure to post a growth for holidays 09 ??
GAF, help.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
watership said:
Lies. Casual gamers only play games on the Wii and DS. And the only type of 'non gamers' there are ones who play Wii Fit and Brain Age.
GAF told me it, it must be true.
:lol
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
I hate to say it but I contributed to that Wii Guitar Hero World Tour number.
That deal off of Amazon was just too good.
That deal off of Amazon was just too good.
Randy Lanzarote
Member
Dang, I was 20k off on the 360, PS3 and PS2.... :/
DS and Wii are probably best left not mentioned (In fact I'm pretty sure I upped my prediction on the Wii by 200k units....durrrr)
DS and Wii are probably best left not mentioned
(In fact I'm pretty sure I upped my prediction on the Wii by 200k units....durrrr)Gully State
Member
So is the "wii owners don't buy games" argument dead? or are people going to still throw that one around with "wii is a fad, it'll die soon" and the "the wii only sells b/c of its price"
The Librarian
Banned
"The Nagus" I think.TJ Spyke said:
So did Sony send Hideo Kojima a "thanks for the support and here's a billion dollar!" letter? If it wasn't for MGS4, the PS3 wouldn't have sold what it did. That's Sony's biggest fault this year, all the "Year of the PS3" bullcrap and they just couldn't keep their momentum. It started with the pricedrop effects, continued with the very succesfull MGS4 launch and the game had some legs and then Sony did.... nothing.
somuchwater
Member
Private Hoffman said:
Wow. That's weird. I guess that doesn't reflect at two-month YoY decline for the PS3, but we can now expect Sony to be touting this figure.
Wonder if the growth in PS3 sales and decline in PS2 sales actually ends up hurting, rather than helping, their bottom lines.
Also, MS must have made *way* more in SW sales in 2008 than in 2007, so I think they're still sitting in a good spot (compared to Sony, that is).