Topic: Official Sales Thread

[Smash_Brother]

Nearly half a mil in January, a typically slow time for gaming as well as still battling supply issues, is a pretty damn good sales figure.

[nitsu niflheim]

Xbox360 drops from 1.13 million in December to 294K in January, that is just ahahaha Microsoft is Doomed!!!!

[NeoThunder]

Question....Guy at Gamestop bet me $1,000 that PS3 would be on top in three years.  Now, I myself think this is a sure bet....I mean, for me it's not saying Wii has to come out on top (which I think it will), it just says PS3 can't come in 1st, and I win.

What do you guys think, Sure win?

[IceCold]

But.. the DS should be much more than that! It was sold out for the holiday season, and North America was finally catching on to the craze a year after the rest of the world did.

NeoThunder: If you win, the guy won't pay up.

[BigJim]

I don't mean to thread hijack, but why is the PSP still selling respectably in the States? I'm asking seriously. Are there actually good games coming out on a regular basis for it? I pay no attention to it, but the sales still surprise me.

[Kairon]

They're AMAZING emulators. AMAZING. My dormmates have like, Monkey Island running on theirs, SNES libnrarires, PSOne games... and all without paying Sony a dime.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Cuz psp does a better job of being a PC than a game platform than the Ps3 does.

[son of lucas]

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Originally posted by: NeoThunder
Question....Guy at Gamestop bet me $1,000 that PS3 would be on top in three years.  Now, I myself think this is a sure bet....I mean, for me it's not saying Wii has to come out on top (which I think it will), it just says PS3 can't come in 1st, and I win.

What do you guys think, Sure win?

Take the bet.

[Maverick]

You have 1000 bucks to throw around?  F*** the bet, give it to me.

[couchmonkey]

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Originally posted by: NeoThunder
Question....Guy at Gamestop bet me $1,000 that PS3 would be on top in three years.  Now, I myself think this is a sure bet....I mean, for me it's not saying Wii has to come out on top (which I think it will), it just says PS3 can't come in 1st, and I win.

What do you guys think, Sure win?

Are you still going to be able to FIND the guy at Gamestop by that time?  And will a guy who works at Gamestop actually be able to honour a $1000 bet?  I'd take it if it was $100.  Oh yeah, and I'd make sure it includes global sales, because Japan is where Wii is going to win for sure.

Okay, sales...

Wii: AWESOME.  I'm so glad to see this.

Xbox 360: Cut the price already!

PS3: Ha ha ha.

DS: I have to wonder if these figures from NeoGAF are right, I was expecting DS to be #1 or #2.

PSP: I'm impressed at how it just keeps going.  It does have a decent lineup of Playstation ports, and as Kairon said, emulationz.

PS2: Way to outsell both next-gen graphics systems.

[Arbok]

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Originally posted by: BigJim
I don't mean to thread hijack, but why is the PSP still selling respectably in the States? I'm asking seriously. Are there actually good games coming out on a regular basis for it? I pay no attention to it, but the sales still surprise me.

If I had to guess, I would say many who were turned away from the PS3 due to price, but are still loyal to the Playstation name, opted for the handheld device.

[Kairon]

Those are pretty impressive shipment numbers for America. Could Europe be getting the shaft?

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[Luigi Dude]

The reason the DS numbers are so low is because there's a shortage WORLDWIDE!  The DS is doing so well in North America, Europe and of course Japan, Nintendo is having a hard time getting enough units out to all three regions fast enough to meet demand.

Also here's something interesting to look at, here's the NPD software total for the Wii and PS3 for people to compare.

Janurary sales - LTD sales

Wii
WARIOWARE: SMOOTH MOVES 201,249 - 201,249
LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS 188,858 - 1,119,95
RAYMAN RAVING RABBIDS 81,094 - 265,549
MADDEN NFL 07 56,045 - 234,769
RED STEEL 40,684 - 260,619
CALL OF DUTY 3 38,547 - 191,576
SUPER MONKEY BALL: BANANA BLITZ 34,967 - 209,975
EXCITE TRUCK 33,481 - 161,185
TRAUMA CENTER: SECOND OPINION 27,555 - 139,296
ELEBITS 26,063 - 87,054
MARVEL: ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 25,566 - 174,597
NEED FOR SPEED: CARBON 24,085 - 97,092
DRAGON BALL Z: BUDOKAI TENKAICHI 2 20,262 - 103,854
RAPALA TROPHIES: PRO TOURNAMENT FISHING 20,031 - 48,815
RAMPAGE: TOTAL DESTRUCTION 16,373 - 71,175
SUPER SWING GOLF 15,846 - 48,243
TONY HAWK'S DOWNHILL JAM 15,608 - 100,854
METAL SLUG ANTHOLOGY 15,135 - 46,820
MONSTER 4X4: WORLD CIRCUIT 14,474 - 47,213
GT PRO SERIES 13,560 - 54,290
ICE AGE 2: MELTDOWN 11,454 - 19,588
TOM CLANCY'S SPLINNTER CELL: DOUBLE AGEN 9,084 - 33,652
CARS 8,642 - 42,863
FAR CRY: VENGEANCE 8,107 - 23,394
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: CREATURE FROM THE 6,808 - 48,883
HAPPY FEET 6,324 - 39,876
AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER 6,263 - 45,035
WORLD SERIES OF POKER: TOURNAMENT OF CHA 4,887 - 12,173
OPEN SEASON 3,674 - 12,151
DISNEY'S CHICKEN LITTLE: ACE IN ACTION 3,204 - 7,477
BARNYARD 3,110 - 8,907
THE GRIM ADVENTURES OF BILLY & MANDY 3,035 - 14,202
ANT BULLY 1,284 - 3,839

Total Wii Software LTD = 3,971,854


Playstation 3:
RESISTANCE: FALL OF MAN 143,502 - 430,385
MADDEN NFL 07 75,244 - 259,238
PS3 FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 3 52,882 - 120,530
CALL OF DUTY 3 50,681 - 160,744
NEED FOR SPEED: CARBON 45,664 - 145,129
MARVEL: ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 34,008 - 117,634
TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 07 31,821 - 84,321
NBA 2K7 29,814 - 82,928
NBA 07 29,159 - 94,426
BLAZING ANGELS: SQUADRONS OF WWII 28,296 - 54,698
TONY HAWK'S PROJECT 8 24,521 - 86,695
RIDGE RACER 7 22,619 - 73,681
PS3 FULL AUTO 2: BATTLELINES 21,175 - 55,072
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 20,921 - 20,921
UNTOLD LEGENDS: DARK KINGDOM 16,726 - 54,698
GENJI 2: DAYS OF THE BLADE 15,929 - 42,901
NHL 2K7 13,213 - 33,690
MOBILE SUITE GUNDAM: CROSSFIRE 6,672 - 19,560

Playstation 3 Total Software LTD = 1,936,846


As anyone can see, the Wii is owning the PS3 hard in both hardware and software.  And when you take into account it cost third parties MUCH less to develop for the Wii and alot of their games sold just as good or even better on the Wii, third parties should be very happy with their Wii sales.

Any third party that decides to give more support to the PS3 over the Wii after this is a complete moron.

[Louieturkey]

That is right.  If Nintendo could shaft the Japanese, there'd be a lot more DSs in the US, but since demand is still much higher there than here, they get the most systems.   However, Nintendo has upped the amount of systems they can produce in a month now so we should see those DS numbers go up across the board.  

Plus, in Europe, the DS is the most popular system just like in Japan and it's just starting to come into the boom there that it had through all of 2006 in Japan.

[jasonditz]

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Originally posted by: BigJim
I don't mean to thread hijack, but why is the PSP still selling respectably in the States? I'm asking seriously. Are there actually good games coming out on a regular basis for it? I pay no attention to it, but the sales still surprise me.

There've been some decent PSP releases of late, and the platform has quietly gotten a halfway respectable lineup of titles. I mean, it's still not in the DS league or anything, but it's no longer the Ngage redux that it was shaping up to be early on in its life.

[Maverick]

the DS Lite really all that hard to find?  I always see many boxes at my local Target.

[Kairon]

Those are pretty respectable numbers fo Wii third party vs. the PS3 third party!

It's impressive to see that the only PS3 multiplatform port that outperformed its Wii equivalent significantly was Need For Speed by about 40k units... Madden was about equal for both consoles, and Call of Duty, Marvel, and even Tony Hawk all did better on the Wii!

Also notable is the 130k figure for Trauma Center (yes!), the the 70k figure for rampage (huh?), and the bevy of small successes like 50k for Monster 4X4 (WHAT?!?!?!?)

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[Artimus]

I think the Wii's third party sales are very strong. Naturally IGN has an article up saying the opposite. It sadly seems that non-Matt/Bozon/Craig articles are filtering into the Nintendo section more and more and those articles are of the same amateurish quality of the non-Nintendo sections.

[NWR_pap64]

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Originally posted by: Artimus
I think the Wii's third party sales are very strong. Naturally IGN has an article up saying the opposite. It sadly seems that non-Matt/Bozon/Craig articles are filtering into the Nintendo section more and more and those articles are of the same amateurish quality of the non-Nintendo sections.

You beat me to it! I was about to post that same story.

I agree that IGN is playing chicken little again. The games are selling better than expected, especially when some of them are technically inferior to the PS3 versions. And I'm sure companies are seeing great profit, despite "sluggish sales".

How long till Pittboi comes in here and paints a gloom picture on the sales data? :p

[Blue Plant]

5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

[BlackNMild2k1]

Media Create Feb 12th - 18th

Software:
01. (DS, Level 5) Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village - 136,736 / NEW
02. (PSP, Bandai-Namco) Tales of Destiny 2 - 73,022 / NEW
03. (DS, Sega) Bleach DS 2nd: Kokui Hirameku Requiem - 45,486 / NEW
04. (DS, Konami) Death Note - 44,600 / NEW
05. (PS2, Nippon Ichi Software) Soul Cradle: Sekai wo Kurau Mono - 43,253 / NEW
06. (DS, Nintendo) Picross DS - 41,105 / 156,664
07. (DS, Square-Enix) Dragon Quest Monsters Joker - 39,598 / 1,134,069
08. (Wii, Nintendo) Wii Sports - 39,128 / 1,043,683
09. (Wii, Nintendo) Wii Play - 29,342 / 908,774
10. (DS, Nintendo) More Brain Age - 28,254 / 3,991,966
~
11. (DS, Nintendo) New Super Mario Bros.
12. (DS, Nintendo) Wario: Master of Disguise
13. (DS, Marvelous Interactive) Harvest Moon: The Island I Grew Up On
14. (DS, Nintendo) Animal Crossing Wild World
15. (DS, Nintendo) Hotel Dusk: Room 215
16. (DS, Nintendo) Common Knowledge Training
17. (PS2, Capcom) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
18. (DS, Nintendo) Mario Kart DS
19. (DS, Nintendo) Brain Age
20. (DS, Pokemon) Pokémon Diamond
21. (DS, Nintendo) English Training
22. (DS, IE Institute) Kanji Brain Test 2M
23. (DS, Pokemon) Pokémon Pearl
24. (PS2, Sega) J-League Pro Soccer 5
25. (PS3, Sega) Virtua Fighter 5
26. (PSP, Capcom) Monster Hunter Portable
27. (DS, Bandai-Namco) Heisei Board of Education DS
28. (DS, Sega) Puyo-Puyo!
29. (PS2, Marvelous Interactive) Zero no Tsukaima: Shou-akuma to Harukaze no Concerto
30. (DS, Rocket Co.) Kanji Test

DS - 21
PS2 - 4
Wii - 2
PSP - 2
PS3 - 1

Hardware:
Hardware - This Week | Last Week | YTD | LTD
1. NDS - 136,999 | 201,298 | 1,241,148 | 15,246,827
2. Wii - 63,618 | 78,550 | 667,096 | 1,586,739
3. PSP - 34,505 | 32,175 | 337,618 | 4,869,747
4. PS3 - 20,676 | 23,431 | 199,410 | 656,968
5. PS2 - 16,192 | 16,033 | 165,629 | 20,320,488
6. 360 - 5,210 | 4,811 | 57,827 | 322,529
7. GBA - 1,836 | 1,900 | 20,545 | 15,318,624
8. NGC - 347 | 383 | 3,806 | 4,173,274


Looks like Wii Sports & Wii play are sliding down the charts, hope its only temporary, and GTA: SA is still on the charts, while Zelda missed the Top 30 once again (it was #31 last week).
Blah, blah blah, DS continues to dominate the charts, but Virtua Fighter is still in the Top 25. After is sub-par debut, even though it debuted at #1, I surprised to see it on the charts at all.    

[nitsu niflheim]

From 1 to 25 is just sad.  I know DQMJ had a real bad fall, but that was because of shortages and bounced right back up, I wonder if VF5 will have a bounce back later on.

[Kairon]

HUGE SALES for Prof. Leyton. Sold out I hear.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[vudu]

Wii reaches 5 million, so says VGCharts

Over half of what Xbox 360 has sold in 20% of the time.

[Kairon]

I don't know... I'd place Wii at more around 4.4 mil worldwide.

Actually... 4.4 mil is about right for the end of January. We're more than halfway through February so...

OMG, 5 mil MAY be a reality!!!

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com