Topic: Official Sales Thread

[IceCold]

Is it the Wii version of Guitar Hero in the Top 10?

[Kairon]

Is it the Wii version of Guitar Hero in the Top 10?

Yes

[MaleficentOgre]

PS3 costs soooo much. ugh. I want it. I missed out on the amazon deal $200 system. ugh.

[King of Twitch]

Vi$ion? So game$ are art now?

[MaleficentOgre]

Wii Fit, this is just my honest bet, sold because best buy has been pumping the mess out of it. I've seen so many of those best buy holiday ads for wii fit. People are remotely aware of it. I'm really interested in Decembers sales, see if it'll stay up there.

Poor LBP. That game is purely a victim of bad market position. Not enough advertising, the PS3 has not enough market share and the system costs too too much.

I heard the next tales game is going to be on wii. The A team will be doing it instead of the b team like with symphonia. People seem to really like Vesparia so that could be good news.

[Kairon]

Poor LBP. That game is purely a victim of bad market position. Not enough advertising, the PS3 has not enough market share and the system costs too too much.

Dear Media Molecule. Bring it to the Wii.

[Deguello]

While Lindy's post is rather large and... cluttered I'll euphemistically say, I do take one umbrage with his bringing up of "performance gaps" as some sort of indicator of third party support or lack thereof.

Twice in gaming history there have been rather large performance gaps.

Recently the DS and PSP exhibit large amounts of gaps in performance.  The DS is about as powerful as the N64 (on the higher side) and the PSP can actually look better than the PS2 at times.  The Third parties are largely in favor of the DS.

More lately, the Ps1 and N64 exhbited a large power gap, with the N64 having great graphical chops in the forms of Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Rogue Squadron, Mario 64, Jet Force Gemini, and Donkey Kong 64.  These games made even the highest budget PS1 games look like pixellated garbage wrought from Satan's Anus.  Third parties favored the PS1, with a landmark announcement being FFVII announced exclusively for it.  If this is all sounding familiar, it should because the one thing the "performance gap" consoles had in common was a gigantic userbase.  This overrode any notions of demographics and what game belongs where under what style and yakkity yak yak.

And for the record "mass market" is a bad label to throw around, mainly because third parties would be apeshit crazy not to want all of their games to be "mass market."  Do you think Namco would throw a fit if Tales of Whatever sold 13 million copies?  Would that say "Dammit!  I clearly aimed this game to sell 300,000 copies to the Lebanese immigrant demographic!  What went WRONG?!"

[BlackNMild2k1]

OMG @ thw Wii #'s for November!! when is the last time that a system sold that many in a single month?

& I personally think LBP would do much better with the Wii audience. Maybe they will special edition for Wii.

[ShyGuy]

Lebanese.

Anyone have numbers on any other Wii games? How about total COD:WAW across all platforms?

[Bill Aurion]

OMG @ thw Wii #'s for November!! when is the last time that a system sold that many in a single month?

This is the second highest month of a single console's sales ever.  First is PS2's 2002 December (2.7 million)...It IS, however, the highest November sales ever...

[BlackNMild2k1]

What did PS2 do in sales that November?

Looks like Wii could break that record if they can keep up demand & supply, too bad they haven't released any games that would help push demand.

[Bill Aurion]

Around 1.7 million?  I think I might be overestimating...

[BranDonk Kong]

Jesus Fucking Christ, 2.04 million systems! Pretty shitty month for the PS3 too, this isn't going to go over too well at Sony's next board meeting...

[GoldenPhoenix]

I find it hilarious how Resistance 2, Sony's wannabe Gears of Wars/Halo was almost topped by Wii Music. Sony is in big trouble.

[Chozo Ghost]

OMG @ thw Wii #'s for November!! when is the last time that a system sold that many in a single month?

This is the second highest month of a single console's sales ever.  First is PS2's 2002 December (2.7 million)...It IS, however, the highest November sales ever...

That being the case, looks like the Wii is set for a record smashing December as well (provided there aren't major shortages, of course).

[Chozo Ghost]

Jesus ****ing Christ, 2.04 million systems! Pretty ****ty month for the PS3 too, this isn't going to go over too well at Sony's next board meeting...

It might get some mention if there's still time after they discuss blu-ray and HD. Honestly, I don't think Sony executives really give a crap about video games, and I doubt any of them even play any.

[Chozo Ghost]

PS3 costs soooo much. ugh. I want it. I missed out on the amazon deal $200 system. ugh.

Wait a couple years and you'll be able to find them in bargain bins for next to nothing when stores try to get rid of the system that just collects dust on their shelves.

[Mario]

BUY Wii Music. De Blob, buy it. Call of Duty, buy it. Shaun White Wii, BUY IT. The games are there, just got to FIND them. Wii owners are doing an AWFUL job of that now. It's embarrassing. I find it VERY hard to believe all these "new Wii Sports owners" will send 2 million copies of Mad World packing in Q1 09. It's not going to happen, the Wii is killing gaming and that's a fact proven by every ounce of sales data. Wii is the worst thing to happen to gaming since PSP, and it's all YOUR fault.

[KDR_11k]

Poor LBP.[..] Not enough advertising

Er whut? They're plastering ads for that everywhere! My bet is that people don't want to play as knitted cookie monsters.

Mario, no matter how many million users the system has it won't make Mad World a million seller.

[Flames_of_chaos]

With Little Big Planet it most likely got lost in the shuffle. But this month the only thing to say is:

[DAaaMan64]

lol I really like Iwata's stance at the end of the second one.

[Luigi Dude]

Er whut? They're plastering ads for that everywhere! My bet is that people don't want to play as knitted cookie monsters.

It might have more to do with Sony's stance on 2d games coming back to bite them in the ass.  During the Playstation 1 and 2, Sony of America did all they could to tell their audience that 2d games were bad, and that 3d games are cool.

So now when Sony tries to market a 2d game as their big seller, of course their fans aren't going to be excited for it, when Sony told them for the last decade to not care about 2d.

[Kairon]

BUY Wii Music. De Blob, buy it. Call of Duty, buy it. Shaun White Wii, BUY IT. The games are there, just got to FIND them. Wii owners are doing an AWFUL job of that now. It's embarrassing.

I think that this is Nintendo's biggest challenge right now, and I believe that it is a marketing challenge. Nintendo can reach these consumers, but they need to figure out a way to help third parties create added sales. I don't think that Nintendo should spring for high-cost strategies like TV commercials that are possibly low return, but they need to figure out a way to get the benefits of the Nintendo Channel out to consumers who aren't proactive game buyers.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

If Nintendo Channel was useful--instead of being another TV commercial medium where publishers paid for ad space--then it should have a wishlist/preference function where people can specify genres, franchises, publishers they liked and get Wii Message Board updates on new media that becomes available, and possibly a Message Board newsletter for overall updates on the channel.

Plus, the trailer selection in the channel is somewhat awful; Nintendo needs to proactively coordinate with 3rd party publishers to make their promo media available and not just have the channel be 75% Nintendo content.

[SalesBot]

HOLY F*CKING SH!T!!!!!

November NPD is out.

Wii - 2.04 MILLION

Everything else

DS 1.57M
Xbox 360 836k
PSP 421k
Playstation 3 378k
Playstation 2 206k


Top 10

GEARS OF WAR 2 - 1.56 million
CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR - 1.41 million
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE - 796K
WII FIT - 697K
MARIO KART - 637K
CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR - 597K
GUITAR HERO WORLD TOUR - 475K
LEFT 4 DEAD - 410K
RESISTANCE 2 - 385K
WII MUSIC - 297K
836

Miyamoto's revenge, Wii Music lives.

Software LTD's:
Wii Play: 7.929.501
Mario Kart Wii: 4.013.000
Wii Fit: 3.530.134
Wii Music: 378.000

*Wii Play is now the best-selling single SKU in tracked history

Best-selling single SKU titles of all time.

Wii Play (7.9)
GTA SA PS2 (6.9)
GTA VC PS2 (6.
Super Mario 64 (5.9)
GTA3 PS2 (5.6)

Hardware LTD's:
PS2: 42.948.000
NDS: 24.463.000
WII: 15.391.000
PSP: 13.227.000
360: 12.449.000
PS3: 6.062.000

Wii =2.04million
DS = 1.5million

Everything else = 1.84million
Nintendo = 3.54million = 1.9x the sales of all the competitors combined

Wii = 2.87x the sales of Xbox360
Xbox 360 = 2.21x the sales of PS3

Wii's January - November 2008: 8.05 million units.
PS2's best ever January - December: 8.39 million units

Nov. 2007 / Nov 2008 = Differential
Playstation 3: 466K / 378K = -88K
Playstation 2: 496K / 206K = -290K
PSP: 567K / 421K = -146K


chart courtesy of: Chart Get!!