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November 12th, 2009 at 09:43pm
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After the last two months of price drop-fueled sales surges, it’s almost comforting to see all these red arrows. Hardware sales are down 17% from last month and down 10% from the year prior, with only the Wii maintaining any upward momentum as we head into the two busiest shopping months of the year. The PS3 lost the highest percentage, but that’s hardly surprising following last month’s meteoric 134% spike in sales.
On the software side of things, the exceptionally well-received PlayStation 3-exclusive Uncharted 2: Among Thieves took top honors, selling 537K units in just the second half of October. Of course, Sony told us earlier today that the title has broken the coveted million mark (worldwide?) with November sales factored in. The multiplatform Borderlands makes a similarly impressive showing, taking third on Xbox 360 with 418K units sold; however, when you factor in the 113K units sold of the not-top-ten PS3 version (data provided graciously by NPD), you find an impressive 531K in cumulative sales, just missing the top spot.
NBA 2K10 had a strong showing with 524K in cumulative sales, “outselling last year’s NBA 2K9 by 60% in its launch month” reports the NPD, while last month’s champ, Halo 3: ODST, dropped to sixth with 271K in sales. With just four days on shelves in October, Forza Motorsport 3 made a strong showing at #8 with 175K. Slightly less strong was Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days’ ninth-place showing despite a full month on the shelf. And in last place is the worldwide phenomenon known as FIFA 10 (or, in North America, FIFA Soccer 10). While FIFA 10 may be the “fastest selling sports game ever” in Europe, selling 1.7m in its first week, over here we bought up just 156K copies in a little over a week.
-Wii: 507K
44K (+10%)
-DS: 458K
66K (-13%)
-PS3: 321K171K (-35%)
-360: 250K103K (-29%)
-PSP: 175K15K (-8%)
-PS2: 118K28K (-19%)
Check out the software sales chart after the break.
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October NPD: Uncharted 2 takes top spot while hardware sales slow down originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 27th, 2009 at 11:00am
Under Xbox 360
Source: NPD Group; via Gamasutra
If you’re like us — and, we figure after all these years we’ve been secretly brainwashing you, you are — then the recent console price cuts were met with your curiosity over how these discounts would affect the vast gaming sales landscape. Fortunately, Gamasutra has posted a chart (using NPD figures) that measures how the price cuts altered two factors: each console’s average sale price during the month of September and its year-to-date sales (through September).
This first figure proves the most telling about how the market reacted to the slashed prices. For instance, the average price at which PS3s were purchased in September was a flat $300; meaning an overwhelming majority of buyers responded favorably to the discount. Though the price of the Wii didn’t get cut until the last week of September, the console’s average price dropped to $218 — also indicative of a reactionary market surge. The average Xbox 360 purchased price, however, actually increased by a buck to $261. By Gamasutra’s calculations, folks purchased three Elites ($300) for every Arcade model ($200) sold during the month.
The PS3 was the top-selling console in September, which is the first time it’s ever managed a first-place sales finish. It’s still in last place in the 2009 year-to-date totals, though, and Sony’s system would need to outsell Xbox 360 by about 35,000 units every week until the end of the year to break even with its competitor. Passing up the Wii, however, would require an act of divine intervention — Nintendo’s console is currently sitting on YTD sales of 4 million, which is more than twice the total of PS3 sales.
Gamasutra breaks down console sales in light of price cuts originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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August 24th, 2009 at 07:30pm
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We’re not sure what’s more impressive: That a cricket game was actually outselling Wii Sports Resort for two weeks in the UK, or that Nintendo’s latest minigame melange only outsold Wolfenstein by 2,000 copies for the week of August 16 to 22. That’s what the latest numbers and report from Chart Track show, placing the id Software / Raven shooter at the top of the PS3, 360 and PC charts for its first week on sale.
We’ll have to wait for NPD’s numbers to see how the FPS fared on this side of the pond, but it’s pretty obvious that — the world over — everybody loves killing some Nazis. Take a peek after the break to see what else the Brits have been buying up lately.
Source — Chart Trak, week ending 8/22
Source — Wii Sports Resort keeps Wolfenstein at bay
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August 11th, 2009 at 03:00pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
We imagine those six multicolored lines you see above are going to cause quite a stir among the various fanboy contingencies — they represent the percentage of “active users” on different consoles in the first half of 2009, according to survey data compiled by Nielsen. As you can see, the Xbox 360 dominated the charts, while the ubiquitously successful Wii came in dead last by a huge margin, ranking below the PS2, original Xbox and GameCube.
Our initial reaction to this data was that Nielsen is high on pot, but we can kinda understand what caused the Wii’s disappointing placement on the list — the chart is tracking the percent of console owners who use their gaming hardware on a regular basis. Everyone and their dog owns a Wii by this point, but very few actually play them consistently, according to Nielsen’s findings. Meanwhile, there’s only a handful of GameCubes out there that haven’t been converted into lunchboxes, and their owners apparently use them a bit more frequently.
If you’re looking for a more straightforward breakdown of console usage, Nielsen also figured the overall usage totals for each console. That chart’s posted after the jump. (You’ll find it slightly above the deluge of inflammatory comments.)
[Via IndustryGamers]
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July 7th, 2009 at 12:30am
Under PSP
So it turns out
Fight Night Round 4 is a
real hit over in the UK. A real
hit. That’s a joke. What isn’t a joke is that the game is enjoying a second week at the number one spot, despite competition from
Tiger Woods Pro Tour 10, which debuted at number 2. We say “competition,” but no matter which one you buy the money’s still going in EA’s pocket — something that doesn’t happen when you buy
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which surged from number 6 to number 3 this week.
The bundling of Wii MotionPlus with Tiger Woods doesn’t seem to have impacted too much on sales, as it debuted at number 4 in the Wii charts. Grand Slam Tennis — which is also bundled with MotionPlus — swapped places with EA Sports Active, jumping from number 3 to number 2. None of which seem to be able to get close to that other Wii peripheral, Wii Fit, which sits comfortably at the top of the Wii chart, as usual.
Fight Night Round 4 knocks out its UK chart competitors originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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