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December 16th, 2009 at 11:00am
Under Wii / Nintendo
Enterbrain reports that the PS3 has crossed the four million mark in Japan, selling over one million consoles in nine months for a total of 4,020,563. Though this milestone is impressive, expect the next million to go by much more rapidly, thanks to the price drop, the PS3 Slim, and, most importantly, Final Fantasy XIII.
The Wii also achieved impressive sales, but it’s the Wii, so its total is a bit higher: 9,048,012 units. Many of those Wiis were likely sold to people buying New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which reached a life-to-date total of 1,401,558 copies in its second week.
While the last million sales have occurred since April in Japan, over a million Wiis were sold last month alone in the US. The difference in scale can be attributed both to the US’s larger population and to the Black Friday phenomenon.
[Via Andriasang]
Enterbrain: Wii sells 9 million in Japan, PS3 sells 4 million originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 11th, 2009 at 06:15pm
Under DS
November was a good month for GameStop, as the retailer has announced sales for its new games were up 15 percent. We contacted GameStop to get some clarification on the vague 15 percent figure and VP Chris Olivera said this was compared to November 2008.
It’s not that tough to gather how the company upped its profits. Aside from a massive used games sale, the company also offered some sweet Black Friday console bundles and a week-long sale on new games — all of which managed to get folks in the store, spending cash.
GameStop: New game sales up 15 percent in Nov. 2009 originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 11th, 2009 at 04:15pm
Under DS
Yesterday’s NPD announcement that New Super Mario Bros. Wii had sold 1.4 million copies in the November NPD period was impressive. But Nintendo topped it today by noting that, including sales after the NPD cutoff date, the game has reached a total of two million copies. It’s not Modern Warfare 2 or anything, but it is a very strong start for a game that is likely to have a very long tail. Even just in November, it easily beat New Super Mario Bros.’s first month on DS (which, admittedly, was May and not November).
Nintendo also announced that the Wii has reached a US installed base of 23 million, and that the DS broke the November handheld sales record set by … the DS.
Nintendo: NSMB Wii has sold 2 million in US originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 10th, 2009 at 09:35pm
Under Xbox 360
The US games industry’s performance numbers are out for November and,
as expected, software sales were
lead dominated by Activision / Infinity Ward’s
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox 360 and PS3. The game sold 4.2 million copies during the month on Microsoft’s console, while the version for Sony’s machine sold 1.9 million. Coming in an extremely strong second was
New Super Mario Bros. Wii at 1.4 million copies, proving that 1) people still love the plumber and 2) if a Wii game is published by Nintendo, it sells like crazy (well, unless it also has “
Wii Music” in its title).
Nintendo lead in hardware sales, with the number of DS units sold skyrocketing by 262% to 1.7 million units — that’s better than the same month last year. Wii sold over two million last November; this year it hit 1.26 million for the month, indicative of the year-long decline in sales the console’s been experiencing. Its competitors, Xbox 360 and PS3, sold 820 thousand and 710 thousand units, respectively.
-DS: 1.7M
1.2M (+262%)
-Wii: 1.26M753K (+149%)
-360: 820K570K (+228%)
-PS3: 710K389K (+121%)
-PSP: 294K119K (+76%)
-PS2: 203K85K (72%)
Check out the software sales chart after the break.
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November NPD: Modern Warfare 2 sells 6 million, DS dominates hardware originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 10th, 2009 at 08:15pm
Under Xbox 360
It looks like Activision’s hopes for Tony Hawk: Ride are falling even faster than the average Tony Hawk: Ride player. IndustryGamers reports that this month’s NPD numbers place the game at 114,000 copies sold across three platforms. Not that Activision is even paying attention to its own failure right now, distracted by the ridiculous success of its own Modern Warfare 2. This is the second disappointing month in a row for a big-box Activision game.
While we don’t have a per-platform breakdown of the disappointing sales, a forecast released before today’s NPD results estimated that just 13,000 copies sold on Xbox 360. All of this just confirms what we intuitively knew: skateboards without wheels just don’t work.
NPD: 114K took a Tony Hawk: Ride in November originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 9th, 2009 at 08:40pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
Nintendo’s focus on “evergreen” titles has been a staple of the publisher for years now, with marketing support lasting longer than ever with this generation’s major releases. So it surprised us last April when the company said it hoped “word of mouth” would help push GTA: Chinatown Wars‘ lackluster initial sales higher as the months progressed. However, when executive vice president Cammie Dunaway recently spoke with MTV Multiplayer, Nintendo’s traditional message quickly returned. “Part of what’s needed is you have to continue to put marketing support behind these titles.”
She also called sales “frustrating, quite frankly,” but declined to comment on Rockstar’s marketing surrounding the release of the game. Dunaway remained diplomatic through the conversation though, only offering, “The old dynamic of ‘throw it on television for a few weeks and then move on and forget it’ just doesn’t work,” giving us little more than a taste of her real feelings behind the release’s marketing push. Check out the whole clip after the break.
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Nintendo: GTA Chinatown Wars sales ‘frustrating’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 8th, 2009 at 03:45pm
Under Xbox 360
If you’ve been desperately wanting to live the luxurious life of a virtual DJ, but lack the finances required to do so, fret no longer — GuitarHeroStore has temporarily knocked the price of the Wii, PS3 and 360 versions of DJ Hero down to $79, and the PS2 version of the game to $64. That even includes free shipping, which is good, since plastic turntables probably cost more than your average parcel to transport cross-country.
Make sure you enter in the coupon code “DJHPP1″ while checking out in order to access the offer. Otherwise, you’ll end up paying full price for the game, losing out on $20 you could’ve spend on other disc jockey accessories. Like oversized headphones! Or LED-infused robot helmets.
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GuitarHeroStore scratches DJ Hero price down to $79 originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 7th, 2009 at 08:00pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
Though it’s always risky to call a winner before the race is over, EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich figures there’s basically no chance that the best-selling home console of this generation will be anything but the Nintendo Wii — even if Nintendo were to suffer an unusually bad few years, and its competitors were to enjoy unusually good years.
Here’s Divnich’s “worst-case scenario”: “For the Wii, let us assume a 25% decline in sales next year,” he postulates, “followed by two years of 30% declines, and a 50% decline in 2013. For the Xbox 360, we’ll assume a 10% increase through 2012, and a 30% decline in 2013. For the PlayStation 3, a 25% increase next year, followed by two years of 10% increases and a 30% decline in 2013.”
Even with those unlikely numbers, Divnich says, the Wii comes out selling about as much as the PS2 has, and claims victory over the Xbox 360 and PS3. The reality will, of course, be much more complicated than the projection. Divnich notes that Nintendo is likely to release some kind of new hardware, either in the form of a bundle or an upgraded system, that will affect sales; “Additionally, we know that Sony plans to support the PS3 through 2016, which means there are three additional years where Sony could gain a tremendous amount of ground on the Wii and Xbox 360 by being able to offer an affordable Blu-ray player to consumers (very similar to the late success the PS2 had by being able to offer consumers an incredibly cheap video game system/DVD player).”
Still, it seems that the only chance for a second-place Wii is for the DS to eventually become large enough to count as a home console.
Divnich: Wii can’t help but win this generation originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 7th, 2009 at 05:00pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
Old-school Mario is news again as New Super Mario Bros. Wii sold at Sonic-speed throughout its Japanese launch last week. Andriasang reports that the platformer sold 422,000 copies in its first day (December 3), with Famitsu following up that NSMB Wii moved 936,734 units by Sunday, December 6, its “first week” at retail, stomping the previous week-one sales record held by Super Smash Bros. Brawl (816k).
And with that, Mario has pulled off his hat trick, scoring in Japan’s top three first-week bestsellers, which also includes Mario Kart Wii (608k). Monster Hunter 3 (583k) follows in fourth place.
In other news, Joystiq Publishing, in collaboration with acclaimed developer Nincom, is pleased to announce “Mushroom Hunter Wii,” the VIDEO GAME EVENT OF THE NEXT GENERATION — for Wii — exclusively in Japan (while supplies last). Pre-order today!
[Via GamesIndustry.biz]
Source – Big Start for December Wii titles [Andriasang]
Source – ミリオン目前、『New スーパーマリオブラザーズ Wii』の初週販売本数が発表 [Famitsu]
NSMB Wii hits big in Japan: bricks record, collects coin originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 7th, 2009 at 04:00pm
Under Xbox 360
If you read the first installment in the latest installment of “Pachter Predixx,” you already know that the analyst’s new report praises the PS3 for its resilience during these troubled times. According to the report, the PS3 saw an 85-percent year-over-year sales increase in November, while the Wii and Xbox 360 suffered sales declines. This reversal in fortune leads Pachter and his Wedbush associates to a surprising conclusion: “We think that the PS3 will again outsell the Xbox 360 in November and December, prompting a price cut some time early next year.”
Pachter adds that while Microsoft “has the ability to lower price yet again,” it probably won’t do so until “it begins to lose significant market share to Sony.” As with all conjecture — even when delivered by professional conjecture conjurers — we suggest considering Pachter’s educated guess as just that: a guess.
Pachter predicts another Xbox 360 price cut in 2010 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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