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NPD June 2008

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According to NPD Industry Analyst Anita Frazier, "The Wii has taken the lead in total sales of current generation console hardware at 10.9 million units sold at retail life-to-date in the U.S."

The Wii sold 666.7K units in June 2008, the NPD stats for the month reveal, compared to 405.5K for the PS3 and 219.8K for the Xbox 360. The Nintendo DS sold 783K units for the month, while the PSP mustered sales of 337.4K.

"Platform-exclusive content usually fuels hardware system purchases, and PS3 sales certainly reflect the impact of Metal Gear Solid 4,” said Frazier. “PS3 unit sales were the highest of any month outside of that recorded during previous November/December holiday timeframes."

Regarding software, dollar sales for video games in 2008 came in at $1.69 billion, compared to June 2007 $1.1 billion; a 53% increase. $615.1 million of this came from hardware sales, while $872.6 million came from software and $202 million from accessories. These represent year-on-year increases of 54%, 61%, and 25% respectively.

The top ten software titles for the month were led unsurprisingly by Metal Gear Solid 4, which moved 774.6K unbundled units. Guitar Hero: On Tour took the number two spot with 422.3K, while LEGO Indiana Jones SKUs took the 8, 9, and 10 spots.

Said Frazier, "As expected, Metal Gear Solid 4 realized significant retail sales and drove PS3 hardware acquisition. While the attached media report does not include units bundled with hardware, if included MGS4 sold-through nearly 1 million units."

She added "Wii Play continues to achieve an attach rate of over 50% to every new Wii hardware system sale. I can't think of another game that has ever had that kind of performance after 16 months at retail." Regarding the strong performance of the PS2 SKU of Indiana Jones, she remarked that, “As Iron Man did last month, mass-friendly titles are a perfect fit for the still healthy PS2 platform.”

June U.S. software rankings are below (includes collector’s edition and bundles but not software bundled with hardware):

1. PS3 Metal Gear Solid 4, Konami, 6/08—774.6K
2. NDS Guitar Hero On Tour, Activision, 6/08—422.3K
3. 360 Ninja Gaiden II, Microsoft, 6/08—372.7K
4. Wii Fit with Balance Board, NOA, 5/08—372.7K
5. Wii Play with Remote, NOA, 2/07—359.1K
6. 360 Battlefield: Bad Company, EA, 6/08—346.8K
7. Wii Mario Kart with Wheel, NOA, 4/08—322.4K
8. Wii LEGO Indiana Jones, LucasArts, 6/08—294.5K
9. NDS LEGO Indiana Jones, LucasArts, 6/08—267.8K
10. PS2 LEGO Indiana Jones, LucasArts, 6/08—260.3K
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Wow, MGS4 really did sell huh? Much better than I expected at least. My prediction was 500k units...But it did almost 800k, not including bundles. Not bad at all.

Check out those DS and Wii numbers though, still going strong! At least the PS3 is finally putting up a fight against the 360! About damn time too, selling about twice as many units. Hopefully everything will even out eventually. I say Nintendo is winner of this gen, and stalemate between Sony and MS. :p
 
MGS4...the show stopper! I think the thing already sold 3+million worldwide....congrats Mr. Kojima the game is excellent.

I'm not really surprised by these number really....The PS3 has been up this whole year so good for Sony and more games for me.

Nintendo did create a beast well two actually but now focus Nintendo...we need games.


Bless
 
sikkinixx said:
I wonder how many bundled units of PS3/MGS4 sold?
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I'm guessing around 200k? Remember they didn't produce many of those units, so they had to rush to produce more after the initial shipment got eaten up. I'm guessing if they had produced a lot more, then they would have sold a lot more of those bundles.

I know a lot of people who bought that bundle in the past month, and a lot more people talking PS3 vs 360 as well. Looks like the 360s RROD might be biting MS in the a$$ after all, since everyone that I've talked to about the 360 (they're fanboys btw), is wanting to get a PS3 instead because they don't wanna deal repair/exchange.

It'll be interesting to see the NPD for this month though. We'll see if MGS4 stays in the top 10 for another month, and I think it'll die off the month after. As for console sales, Nintendo is still going to be king. I'm guessing the PS3 will drop back down to 250k, and 360 will probably be the same as well, due to the pseudo price cut.
 
Some members on NeoGaf are posting NPD tallys from all of '08 saying that PS3 is outselling the 360 by ~250k units so far. Good news for Sony if thats true although Sony did just drop it's biggest (and probably last) AAAA 3rd party exclusive.
 
No so much luck in the UK, MGS4 has already dropped off the Top 10. WiiFit came back into stock and is now #1, followed by Lego Indy and then Brawl.

Surprisingly (or maybe not) Mario Kart Wii is 2 places higher than MGS4 here :eek:

IIRC (since I can't find the Japan sales now) it's also stopped selling well in Japan. Heh, and I thought it would have been the other way around - okay sales in US, massive sales in Japan and EU.
 
Some more interesting stuffs from the 'gaf

Top First Month Sales in US, this gen:
1. Halo 3 - 3.3 million
2. SSBB - 2.7 million
3. GTA 4 360 - 1.85 million
4. CoD 4 360 - 1.57 million
5. Galaxy - 1.12 million
6. MK Wii - 1.12 million
7. Gears - 1.0 million
8. GTA IV PS3 - 1.0 million
9. Assassin's Creed 360 - 0.98 million
10. Madden NFL 08 360 - 0.89 million
11. MGS4 - 0.77 million
12. R6 Vegas 2 360 - 0.75 million
13. Wii Fit - 0.68 million
14. Army of Two 360 - 0.60 million
15. Madden NFL 07 360 - 0.57 million
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YTD numbers
Wii - 3,482,000
DS - 3,187,000
PS3 - 1,608,000
PSP - 1,482,000
360 - 1,354,000
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360's got some catching up to do!

UK weekly charts (just rankings) if anyone is interested
1.Wii Fit
2.Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
3.Super Smash Bros: Brawl
4.Top Spin 3
5.Battlefield: Bad Company
6.Big Beach Sports
7.Wii Play
8.Beijing 2008
9.Kung Fu Panda
10.Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
11.Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
12.Mario Kart Wii
13.Grand Theft Auto IV
14.Dr Kawashima's Brain Training
15.Carnival: Funfair Games
16.Wall-E
17.Unreal Tournament III
18.Metal Gear Solid 4
19.Call of Duty 4
20.FIFA 08
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Have you seen our weather recently?! I'm taking an emergency holiday just to get an ounce of sunlight!
 
and the german console software charts from 7. to 12. of july:
(from http://www.consolewars.eu/news/21298/aktuelle_software-verkaufscharts_aus_deutschland/)

01.Super Smash Bros. BrawlWii
02.Wii FitWii
03.Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorer of DarknessDS
04.Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorer of TimeDS
05.Mario Kart WiiWii
06.Dr. Kawashimas Gehirn-JoggingDS
07.Mario & Sonic bei den Olympischen SpielenDS
08.Dr. Kawashima: Mehr Gehirn-JoggingDS
09.Mario Kart DSDS
10.Mario Party 8Wii

typical end of schoolyear sales

this charts doesn't include PC sales though
 
takao said:
and the german console software charts from 7. to 12. of july:<snip>
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Does Nintendo usually do that well in Germany? I always thought it was a PC centric market?

edit: ah, PC games not there.
 
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