Topic: Official Sales Thread

[IceCold]

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ANYWAY, wouldn't it be hilarious if Mario Galaxy outsold Halo 3?

Worldwide, not at all. Sunshine sold about 6 million on the Cube of all consoles, while Halo 2 sold around 8 million. That was when there was all that irrational bashing on Sunshine, and when Nintendo's mindshare was at an alltime low.

Considering the phenomenal success of New Super Mario Bros and the incredible popularity of the Wii (plus the above average software tie-in ratio), it's just about the perfect time for Galaxy to make a killing in sales. The only thing stopping it would be a shortage of hardware.

Hell, it already has like 500,000 preorders in Japan last I checked. That's more than even NSMB and Animal Crossing DS got.

Not to mention when it comes to sales, longevity is key - Halo 2 and 3 exploded out of the gates, but 2 hit a brick wall shortly after. I expect 3 to sell quite a bit more, but it won't really have legs.

[Kairon]

Those are retailker pre-orders IceCold, 700,000 at first.

But yeah, I'm just hoping and praying that MP3 has legs and gets through to somewhere over 1 million sold in the US alone... it almost has no chance of catching up to Metroid Prime 1 at this point, which I guess is understandable (since now everyone knows that Metroid Prime games aren't for everyone...) but still disappointing.

[son of lucas]

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Originally posted by: GoldenPhoenix

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Originally posted by: son of lucas
Yeah, Sony's gone.  Hard to see how they even make a respectable showing at this point.

The Wii's numbers are fantastic.  Almost equaling the 360 during its release of the biggest game of the generation.

The smallish sales for MP:3 are very troubling.  What games do people buy with a Wii anyway?  It looks like almost everyone who bought the console last month didn't bother to pick up its best game with it.

Hasn't MP3 sold pretty well though? I would like to see how it compared to something like Bioshock. ANYWAY, wouldn't it be hilarious if Mario Galaxy outsold Halo 3?

Bioshock sold almost 500,000 units in August.

[IceCold]

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Those are retailker pre-orders IceCold, 700,000 at first.

Hmm.. that makes sense. I was kind of surprised when I heard that figure, since Japan usually likes their 2D Mario games more than the 3D ones.

[Ceric]

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Originally posted by: GoldenPhoenix

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Originally posted by: Kairon
Goodbye Sony? There's still November and December and the $400 unit but... yeah...

Because people will be breaking down doors to buy a gimped PS3 with NO PS2 compatibility and no killer app.

I don't know what Sony was thinking with that move.    You would think that they would look at last generation and see how much backward compatibility helped them, then look at how strong the PS2 is staying, and then look at the developement costs to go strictly PS3 games and do the math.  It make more sense for Nintendo to come out and release a Wii for $200 that axes backward compatibility for to be a little smaller or just a different color.  Even $230 because, no one makes Cube games anymore and you have to jump through hoops to use it, have a Gamecube controller and Memory Card, compared to the Non-Gimped PS3 where you can use its harddrive as your memory card and the Sixaxis as your PS2 controller.  Just sort of silly in the end.

[GoldenPhoenix]

You can't tell that the backwards compatibility would have have been that much to implement, even if it was emulation. People are forgetting the fact that even with all the gimped features it still is TOO EXPENSIVE for the average consumer.

[Spak-Spang]

Wow, the Wii continues to crush with sales.  And Nintendo has one last month of no games until the flood gates open.

I mean Mid November I have a list of 6 games I want to buy.  INSANE.  Once the gate opens the Wii is going to be hard to find again.

I only hope and pray that after Microsoft opened its big mouth about Halo 3 sales, that Galaxy can dwarf its sales numbers.  Maybe not in money made, since Halo 3 had horrible pricing with the the special and legendary editions, but with numbers sold.  That would make my day.

[GoldenPhoenix]

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Originally posted by: Spak-Spang
Wow, the Wii continues to crush with sales.  And Nintendo has one last month of no games until the flood gates open.

I mean Mid November I have a list of 6 games I want to buy.  INSANE.  Once the gate opens the Wii is going to be hard to find again.

I only hope and pray that after Microsoft opened its big mouth about Halo 3 sales, that Galaxy can dwarf its sales numbers.  Maybe not in money made, since Halo 3 had horrible pricing with the the special and legendary editions, but with numbers sold.  That would make my day.

Well I wouldn't be surprised if Mario Galaxy makes more a profit, Halo 3 had to have a tremendous budget in both marketing and production.  

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Mastur Chef heads were a waste of money.

Unless you actually wear it while playing online.

[Ceric]

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Originally posted by: GoldenPhoenix

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Originally posted by: Spak-Spang
Wow, the Wii continues to crush with sales.  And Nintendo has one last month of no games until the flood gates open.

I mean Mid November I have a list of 6 games I want to buy.  INSANE.  Once the gate opens the Wii is going to be hard to find again.

I only hope and pray that after Microsoft opened its big mouth about Halo 3 sales, that Galaxy can dwarf its sales numbers.  Maybe not in money made, since Halo 3 had horrible pricing with the the special and legendary editions, but with numbers sold.  That would make my day.

Well I wouldn't be surprised if Mario Galaxy makes more a profit, Halo 3 had to have a tremendous budget in both marketing and production.

If Microsoft played there cards right it might have gotten people to buy the rights to advertise with Halo 3 attached to there product.

[SalesBot]

UK:
TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - INDIVIDUAL FORMATS (UNITS), WEEK ENDING 20 October 2007
01 (__) [PC] Football Manager 2008 (Sega)
02 (__) [NDS] The Legend Of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo)
03 (__) [360] The Orange Box (Electronic Arts)
04 (02) [PS2] Fifa 08 (Electronic Arts)
05 (03) [360] Halo 3 (Microsoft)
06 (01) [360] Project Gotham Racing 4 (Microsoft)
07 (05) [PS3] Resistance: Fall Of Man (Sony Computer Ent.)
08 (04) [360] Fifa 08 (Electronic Arts)
09 (09) [WII] Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Nintendo)
10 (11) [PS3] Heavenly Sword (Sony Computer Ent.)
11 (07) [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
12 (06) [PS3] Fifa 08 (Electronic Arts)
13 (15) [PS3] Motorstorm (Sony Computer Ent.)
14 (08) [NDS] Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
15 (__) [NDS] High School Musical: Makin' The Cut! (Disney Interactive Studios)
16 (10) [NDS] More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
17 (__) [PC] The Orange Box (Electronic Arts)
18 (12) [WII] Fifa 08 (Electronic Arts)
19 (18) [NDS] Cooking Mama (505 Games)
20 (14) [360] Forza Motorsport 2 (Microsoft)
21 (21) [PS2] Rugby 08 (Electronic Arts)
22 (32) [PS2] Crash Of The Titans (Vivendi Games)
23 (26) [WII] Tiger Woods Pga Tour 08 (Electronic Arts)
24 (__) [WII] Carnival: Funfair Games (Take 2)
25 (13) [PSP] Fifa 08 (Electronic Arts)
26 (29) [NDS] Ratatouille (Thq)
27 (23) [WII] Mario Party 8 (Nintendo)
28 (22) [PS3] Formula 1: Championship Edition (Sony Computer Ent.)
29 (17) [NDS] Mysims (Electronic Arts)
30 (19) [WII] Mysims (Electronic Arts)
31 (24) [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
32 (20) [WII] Super Paper Mario (Nintendo)
33 (__) [WII] The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo)
34 (33) [NDS] Bratz: Forever Diamondz (Thq)
35 (35) [PS2] Ratatouille (Thq)
36 (30) [WII] Sonic And The Secret Rings (Sega)
37 (__) [WII] Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis (Take 2)
38 (16) [PS2] Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights (Thq)
39 (38) [NDS] Sonic Rush Adventure (Sega)
40 (40) [PS3] Ridge Racer 7 (Sony Computer Ent.)
Wii = 11
DS = 10
X360 = 5
PS3 = 6
PS2 = 5
PC = 2
PSP = 1


Irish:
TOP 20 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE (ALL PRICES), WEEK ENDING 20 October 2007
01 (01) Fifa 08 (Electronic Arts)
02 (__) Football Manager 2008 (Sega)
03 (__) The Legend Of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo)
04 (__) The Orange Box (Electronic Arts)
05 (06) Resistance: Fall Of Man (Sony Computer Ent.)
06 (02) Halo 3 (Microsoft)
07 (07) Wii Play (Nintendo)
08 (05) Tiger Woods Pga Tour 08 (Electronic Arts)
09 (04) More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
10 (09) Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
11 (03) Mysims (Electronic Arts)
12 (12) Ratatouille (Thq)
13 (18) Rugby 08 (Electronic Arts)
14 (10) New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
15 (11) Bratz: Forever Diamondz (Thq)
16 (16) Need For Speed: Carbon (Electronic Arts)
17 (20) Motorstorm (Sony Computer Ent.)
18 (08) Cars (Thq)
19 (17) Formula 1: Championship Edition (Sony Computer Ent.)
20 (__) High School Musical: Makin' The Cut! (Disney Interactive Studios)


French week 39, Sept. 24~30th:
01./00 [360] Halo 3
02./00 [360] Halo 3 CE
03./00 [PS2] FIFA 08
04./00 [PS3] FIFA 08
05./00 [360] FIFA 08
06./03 [NDS] My Sims
07./00 [360] Halo 3 LE
08./02 [WII] Super Paper Mario
09./04 [PS2] Rugby 08
10./06 [WII] Mario Party 8
11./05 [NDS] Pokemon Diamond
12./07 [WII] My Sims
13./12 [WII] Wii Play
14./10 [NDS] Brain Training
15./11 [NDS] More Brain training
16./01 [PS3] Heavenly Sword
17./09 [NDS] New Super Mario Bros.
18./00 [WII] FIFA 08
19./00 [PSP] FIFA 08
20./14 [NDS] Pokemon pearl


Spain week 40:
01. FIFA 08 (PS2)
02. FIFA 08 (PS3)
03. My Sims (DS)
04. WWE Smackdown! vs. RAW 2007 (PS2)
05. FIFA 08 (PSP)
06. More Brain Training (DS)
07. Halo 3 (Xbox 360)
08. Brain Training (DS)
09. Pokemon Diamond (DS)
10. Heavenly Sword (PS3)


Sorry no Hardware or Software Sales #'s  

[GoldenPhoenix]

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Originally posted by: SalesBot

Sorry no Hardware or Software Sales #'s

You disappoint me Sales Bot, shame on you.

[Ceric]

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Originally posted by: GoldenPhoenix
You can't tell that the backwards compatibility would have have been that much to implement, even if it was emulation. People are forgetting the fact that even with all the gimped features it still is TOO EXPENSIVE for the average consumer.

I can pretty much assume that its the exact same amount of work as it is for the 80 gig and European versions.  Unless it took a base hardware hit as well beyond losing the built in PS2.

[ShyGuy]

Earnings report is out, Wii crush all who oppose.

[Kairon]

Nintendo shipped 13.17 million Wiis worldwide by September 30, 2007.

[BigJim]

Wii fad confirmed.

That's a lot of serious jack. Wish I could read the damn PDF report.

So far they're more than halfway past the GameCube userbase in 10 months. Judging from the projected numbers (I think), they're expecting to ship another 10m by the end of March, which means they'll pass GameCube's userbase in less than 16 months if they sell all their shipments.

Useless facts: At this point in the GameCube's life (Oct 2002), Nintendo was already bundling Mario Sunshine and a Memory Card 59. And they were expecting to sell their 10 millionth Cube by the following March.

10 million vs. 24 million at 16 months.

[Kairon]

Wouldn't ya know BigJim! Now you can!

The Nintendo Report PDF in ENGLISH!

[BigJim]

Delicious.

[SalesBot]

2007 Worldwide Sales (Compiled from todays Financial Reports)

Beginning with Q1 FY07 ,Sony´s method of reporting hardware and software unit sales has been changed from production shipments to recorded sales(Sold to retailers). Playstation 3 hardware units sales and 2007 WW sales of PS2 & PSP are reported as recorded sales.

(1 January -30 September 2007)
Worldwide Hardware Unit Sales(unit:million)

-NDS 18.03
-Wii 9.98
-PS2 8.4
-PSP 6.35
-PS3 3.93
-360 3.0
-GBA 1.62

(1 January -30 September 2007)
Worldwide Software Unit Sales(unit:million)

-NDS 105.25
-PS2 104.2
-Wii 48.3
-PSP 33.6
-PS3 23.1
-GBA 10.13
-360(N/A)

LTD Sep 07 (Worldwide)
Hardware (unit:million)

-PS2 123.87
-GBA 80.48
-NDS 53.64
-PSP 30.11
-360 13.4
-Wii 13.17
-PS3 5.59

LTD Sep 07 (Worldwide)
Software (unit:million)

-PS2 1,309.1
-GBA 372.63
-NDS 259.48
-PSP 123.9
-Wii 65.81
-PS3 28.4
-360 (N/A)

Six Months Ended Sept. 30 ´07
Net Sales (in millions)

-Sony Corporation $ 35,609
-Nintendo Co LTD $ 6,094
-Sony Computer $ 3,859

Net Income (in millions)

-Sony Corporation $ 1,229
-Nintendo Co LTD $ 1,161
-Sony Computer $(1,104) (Operating loss)

SNE $ 47.98 (+5.9%)
NTDOY $ 74.9 (UNCH)

[SalesBot]

Media Create Oct. 15th - 21st

01./00. [PS2] Seaman 2 (Sega) - 32,798 / New!
02./00. [DS] DS Literature Collection (Nintendo) - 32,438 / New!
03./02. [PS2] Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! Meteor (Bandai-Namco) - 20,467 / 271,000
04./01. [DS] DS Nishimura Kyotarou Suspense Detective Series: Deadly Intent (Tecmo) - 19,982 / 81,000
05./03. [PSP] Gundam Battle Chronicle (Bandai-Namco) - 19,472 / 133,000
06./04. [DS] Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon: Time Expedition Party (Pokémon) - 19,462 / 521,000
07./00. [360] Beautiful Katamari (Bandai-Namco) - 18,935 / New!
08./06. [DS] Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon: Shadow Expedition Party (Pokémon) - 16,248 / 457,000
09./10. [DS] Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day (Nintendo) - 15,425 / 646,000
10./00. [DS] Racehorse Owner Life Game: Winner's Circle (Genki) - 14,774 / New!

11./09. [DS] Kanji Test 2 (Rocket Co.)
12./19. [Wii] Wii Sports (Nintendo)
13./11. [DS] Tamagotchi no Puchi-Puchi Omisecchi: Thanks Everybody! (Bandai-Namco)
14./00. [PS2] Galaxy Angel II: Key to the Infinite Corridor (Broccoli)New!
15./13. [Wii] Mario Party 8 (Nintendo)
16./22. [DS] Taiko Drum Master DS (Bandai-Namco)
17./17. [DS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
18./12. [PSP] Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (Square-Enix)
19./14. [DS] Tashi Ten (Nintendo)
20./20. [DS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

21./07. [PS3] Lair (Sony)
22./18. [PSP] Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops+ (Konami)
23./21. [DS] My Housekeeping Diary (Nintendo)
24./29. [Wii] Wii Play (Nintendo)
25./15. [PS2] Jikkyou Powerful Major League 2 (Konami)
26./08. [DS] Archaic Sealed Heat (Nintendo)
27./24. [DS] More Brain Age (Nintendo)
28./27. [DS] Animal Crossing Wild World (Nintendo)
29./16. [Wii] Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! Meteor (Bandai-Namco)
30./36. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom)

31./33. [DS] More English Training (Nintendo)
32./00. [PS3] Hot Shots Golf 5 (Sony)New!
33./30. [Wii] Mario Strikers Charged (Nintendo)
34./31. [DS] Brain Age (Nintendo)
35./00. [PS3] Spider-Man 3 (Activision)New!
36./32. [DS] English Test DS (Rocket Co.)
37./26. [DS] Namco Museum DS (Bandai-Namco)
38./00. [PS2] Neo-Geo Online Collection: World Heroes Gorgeous (SNK Playmore)New!
39./34. [DS] Phoenix Wright 3 (Capcom)
40./00. [PSP] Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX: Tag Force 2 (Konami)New!

41./00. [PS2] Palais de Reine (Interchannel-Holon)New!
42./35. [PS3] The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Spike)
43./00. [PS2] Spider-Man 3 (Activision)New!
44./44. [DS] English Training (Nintendo)
45./37. [DS] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (Square-Enix)
46./39. [DS] Home Teacher Hitman Reborn! DS: Flame Rumble 2 (Takara-Tomy)
47./00. [DS] Fashionable Puppy DS (MTO)New!
48./38. [DS] The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo)
49./05. [PS2] Arcana Heart (AQ Interactive)
50./46. [DS] Pokémon Diamond (Pokémon)

Hardware - This Week | Last Week | YTD | LTD
1. DS - 70,608 | 78,746 | 5,727,345 | 19,733,024
2. PSP - 58,669 | 59,584 | 2,066,468 | 6,598,597
3. Wii - 24,932 | 20,575 | 2,760,765 | 3,680,408
4. PS3 - 17,130 | 12,365 | 752,425 | 1,209,983
5. PS2 - 10,281 | 10,181 | 627,823 | 20,782,682
6. 360 - 3,011 | 6,161 | 161,508 | 426,210
7. GBA - 270 | 187 | 48,556 | 15,346,635
8. GC - 48 | 79 | 10,021 | 4,179,489

GBA = 22 GBA + 130 SP + 118 Micro
DS = 0 DS + 70,608 Lite

DS '07 vs. DS '06: -411,285
PSP '07 vs. PSP '06: +642,628
# of Games Sold by System (Currently in no order):
Wii- 5 games
DS- 27 games
PS3- 4 games
PS2- 8 games
PSP- 5 games
XBox 360- 1 game

Number of New Games: 12 games

# First Party Games Split by Company:
Nintendo: 20
Sony: 2
Microsoft: 0

First to Third Party Number and Ratios by Company:
12 out of 32 or 37% of games Published for a Nintendo System were 3rd Party.
15 out of 17 or 88% of games Published for a Sony System were 3rd Party.
1 out of 1 or 100% of games Published for a Microsoft System were 3rd Party.
Legend:
Game- Nintendo System
Game- Sony System
Game- Microsoft System
Disclaimer: All of the above non-Media Create links and data were auto-generated from the Media Create Data.  Therefore the accuracy of the links have not been verified.
   

[oohhboy]

(1 January -30 September 2007)
Worldwide Software Unit Sales(unit:million)

-NDS 105.25  <==== WTF

[Kairon]

What did Nintendo say their goal was for shipping software numbers in a year?

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

non-sales indeed.

[Kairon]

Nintendo is now manufacturing the Wii at PS2 rates. Observe:

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"We're still focusing on how to meet booming demand," Iwata said Friday. "We're absolutely not considering a price cut." He said Nintendo was ramping out 1.8 million Wii consoles per month but that a supply crunch was inevitable during the Christmas sales.

While they definitely didn't start the year at 1.8 million a month, if they manufacture at this level for an entire continuous 12 months, they would see 21.6 million Wiis in a year, which is about the sort of number that the PS2 shipped in many of its own years.

[son of lucas]

Have we figured out why the Japan sales have fallen 66% in the last month?  It can't be anything short-term like shortages anymore.