Software sales were lead by Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which sold 2.82 million copies in December. Following it was Wii Fit Plus at 2.41 million copies. The top three closed with Wii Sports Resort at 1.79 million copies. Only one DS title appeared in the top ten for December, with Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story selling 656,700 copies for the month.
The full December NPD information is as follows:
Hardware:
Wii: 3.81 million
Nintendo DS: 3.31 million
PlayStation 3: 1.36 million
Xbox 360: 1.31 million
PSP: 654,700
PlayStation 2: 333,200
Software:
1. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo), Wii - 2.82 million
2. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo), Wii - 2.41 million
3. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo), Wii - 1.79 million
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward, Activision), Xbox 360 - 1.63 million
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward, Activision), PS3 - 1.12 million
6. Wii Play (Nintendo), Wii - 1.01 million
7. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo), Wii - 936,100
8. Assassin's Creed II (Ubisoft Montreal), Xbox 360 - 783,100
9. Left 4 Dead 2 (Valve, Electronic Arts), Xbox 360 - 728,500
10. Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Alphadream, Nintendo) - 656,700
Nintendo also dominated the overall 2009 year-end software sales list, with six Wii titles and one DS title in the top ten. Wii Sports Resort was the second-best-selling game for 2009 overall, followed by New Super Mario Bros. Wii in third.
The only challengers were both console mega-franchises. Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 took the overall sales crown for the year, with its Xbox 360 version and PS3 version placing first and eigth, respectively. Microsoft's Halo 3: ODST came in at ninth for the year.
2009 Year-End Software:
1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward, Activision), Xbox 360
2. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo), Wii
3. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo), Wii
4. Wii Fit (Nintendo), Wii
5. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo), Wii
6. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo), Wii
7. Wii Play (Nintendo), Wii
8. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward, Activision), PlayStation 3
9. Halo 3: ODST (Bungie, Microsoft), Xbox 360
10. Pokemon Platinum Version (Nintendo), NDS
Quote from: Nintendo PRNINTENDO FINISHES 2009 WITH MULTIPLE SALES RECORDS
Wii Has the Best Month in Video Game History, Nintendo DS Has the Best Calendar Year of All Time
Jan. 14, 2010
A holiday shopping frenzy helped both of Nintendo's video game systems make history: Nintendo's Wii™ home system sold more than 3.8 million units in December, a new all-time single-month U.S. sales record. The Nintendo DS™ Lite and Nintendo DSi™ hand-held systems combined to sell more than 3.3 million, the second biggest month in U.S. history.
Those strong December numbers helped propel the Nintendo DS franchise to more than 11.2 million sold in 2009, a new U.S. calendar-year sales record for any video game system – ever. The Wii console finished 2009 with 9.6 million sold. Of all the Wii consoles ever sold in the United States since its November 2006 launch, nearly one-fifth (18.7 percent) were sold during November and December 2009.
"Wii, Nintendo DS Lite and Nintendo DSi combined to sell more than 7 million units in the month of December alone," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. "Clearly there is overwhelming consumer demand for fun games, motion controls and value. This remarkable hardware sales surge presents a tremendous software opportunity for Nintendo and its third-party partners as we head into 2010."
Lifetime U.S. sales for Wii have now surpassed 27.2 million units. No other home console has ever sold so many so quickly. Lifetime U.S. sales for the Nintendo DS franchise have topped 38.8 million units, surpassing lifetime sales of the Game Boy™ Advance franchise.
As always, great software drives hardware sales. In December alone, consumers placed six Nintendo games in the top 10 best-sellers of the month. These include New Super Mario Bros.™ Wii at No. 1 with more than 2.8 million sold, Wii Sports Resort™ at No. 2 with more than 1.7 million sold, Wii Fit™ Plus with the Wii Balance Board™ accessory at No. 3 with more than 1.7 million sold, Wii Play™ at No. 6 with more than 1.0 million sold, Mario Kart™ Wii at No. 7 with more than 936,000 sold and Mario & Luigi™: Bowser's Inside Story for Nintendo DS Lite and Nintendo DSi at No. 10 with more than 656,000 sold.
For all of 2009, Nintendo finished with seven of the top 10 best-selling games of the year. These include New Super Mario Bros. Wii at No. 2 with more than 4.2 million sold, Wii Sports Resort at No. 3 with more than 4.2 million sold, Wii Fit™ at No. 4 with more than 3.5 million sold, Mario Kart Wii at No. 5 with nearly 3.1 million sold, Wii Play at No. 6 with more than 3.1 million sold, Wii Fit Plus™ at No. 8 with more than 2.4 million sold and Pokémon™ Platinum Version at No. 10 with more than 2.0 million sold.
All numbers contained in this document are according to the NPD Group, which tracks U.S. video game sales.
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Not in Nintendo's PR release, but the Wii is also now Nintendo's best selling console ever (having now surpassed the NES).Considering how sore Nintendo's shoulders are from how much they like to pat them, I'm kind of surprised Nintendo isn't touting that one.
Not in Nintendo's PR release, but the Wii is also now Nintendo's best selling console ever (having now surpassed the NES).Considering how sore Nintendo's shoulders are from how much they like to pat them, I'm kind of surprised Nintendo isn't touting that one.
How do you manage to not post the most exciting bits of information attached to all the info above?
They could have meant shipped to retailers or it could have meant shipped from warehouse
Its hard to conceive that there are stockpiles of millions of unsold PS2s out there somewhere.
To be fair, if the systems were manufactured (shipped), then odds are they ended up in consumers hands at some point. Its hard to conceive that there are stockpiles of millions of unsold PS2s out there somewhere. So if Sony "shipped" it, then odds are its in someone's hands.
Unless they are like those old E.T. atari games that are now in a landfill somewhere...
