After last month's painfully delayed January NPD results, the results for February have thankfully arrived just in time. The NPD Fungroup has informed us that the industry has grown 53% in
comparison to last year. A quick recap shows us the following
in console sales:
Nintendo DS 485,000
Wii 335,000
PlayStation 2 295,000
Xbox 360 228,000
PlayStation Portable 176,000
Game Boy Advance 136,000
PlayStation 3 127,000
GameCube 24,000
Xbox 480
Yes, the PlayStation 3 is dead last. Last month figures of the
console were fairly close to that of the Xbox 360's, but in
February the X360 outsold the PS3 by 100k units. The very end of
February saw the release of Formula One, Virtua Fighter 5 and MLB
2K7 (which actually arrived in most stores March 1st), and that
pretty much highlighted the entire list of PS3 games for the
month. So once again, a lack of software has done Sony wrong.
This performance is poor, no doubt, and we hope that with
MotorStorm, the announcement of Home, and various 3rd party
releases March's sales make up for February.
Software sales are a little different. While the Nintendo DS
outsells in hardware, it's the Xbox 360 that rakes in all of the
software sales. Crackdown sold 427k copies, largely due to its
Halo 3 beta inclusion - a move that is very similar to what
Konami did with Zone of Enders and the Metal Gear Solid 2 demo.
And it seems like the Wii Play w/remote package was just too hard
to pass up for many, as it went on to sell 371k. Rounding out the
top three is Diddy Kong Racing for the DS, a remake of the N64
original.
360 Crackdown 427K
WII Wii Play w/Remote 371K
NDS Diddy Kong Racing 262K
WII Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 130K
PS2 Guitar Hero 2 w/Guitar 130K
360 Gears Of War 119K
360 Major League Baseball 2K7 113K
360 Lost Planet: Extreme Condition 111K
WII WarioWare: Smooth Moves 109K
360 NBA Street Homecourt 102k
Note: It is important to know that the NPD does not calculate 100% of sales, but closer to 75%. Sales in/from Canada, Mexico, Wal-Mart, Amazon.com, Sam's Club, a variety of retail stores and privately owned electronics/game stores do not get accounted for. These numbers are not concrete and are only used to illustrate a rough estimate of sales performance.
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