Brent L

I saw this posted at GAF and didn't see it anywhere here yet. I figured some of you could have some interesting things to say about it all:

Sales up 28%

Courtesy of NPD

HW Sales (month and LTD)
Nintendo DS 1.6 mm 9.2 mm
PS2 1.4 mm 37.1 mm
GBA 850.7 K 35.1 mm
Xbox 360 1.1 mm 4.5 mm
Wii 604.2 K 1.1 mm
PSP 953.2 K 6.7 mm
PS3 490.7 K 687.3 K

Top 10 Video Games - December 2006
360 GEARS OF WAR - MICROSOFT 815.7 K
PS2 GUITAR HERO 2 W/GUITAR - ACTIVISION 805.2 K
PS2 MADDEN NFL 07 - ELECTRONIC ARTS 737.1 K
GCN LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS - NINTENDO 532.9 K
WII LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS - NINTENDO 519.2 K
PS2 WWE SMACKDOWN VS. RAW 2007 - THQ 484.5 K
NDS NEW SUPER MARIO BROS - NINTENDO 427.5 K
360 CALL OF DUTY 3 - ACTIVISION 410.8 K
NDS YOSHI'S ISLAND 2 - NINTENDO 407.2 K
PS2 CALL OF DUTY 3 - ACTIVISION 365.3 K

Top 10 Video Games - Annual 2006
PS2 MADDEN NFL 07 - ELECTRONIC ARTS 2.8 mm
NDS NEW SUPER MARIO BROS - NINTENDO 2.0 mm
360 GEARS OF WAR - MICROSOFT 1.8 mm
PS2 KINGDOM HEARTS II - SQUARE ENIX 1.7 mm
PS2 GUITAR HERO 2 W/GUITAR - ACTIVISION 1.3 mm
PS2 FINAL FANTASY XII - SQUARE ENIX 1.3 mm
NDS BRAIN AGE: TRAIN YOUR BRAIN - NINTENDO 1.1mm
360 MADDEN NFL 07 - ELECTRONIC ARTS 1.1mm
360 TOM CLANCY'S GRAW - UBISOFT 1.0 mm
PS2 NCAA FOOTBALL 07- ELECTRONIC ARTS 1.0 mm


Top 10 Titles - December 2006 INCLUDES ALL PLATFORMS (consoles and portables)
Madden NFL 07 - Electronic Arts 1.9 mm
Call Of Duty 3 - Activision 1.1 mm
Cars - THQ 874.0 k
Need for Speed: Carbon - Electronic Arts 871.6 k
360 GEARS OF WAR - MICROSOFT 815.7 K
PS2 GUITAR HERO 2 W/GUITAR - ACTIVISION 805.2 K
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy - LucasArts 792.3 K
WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2007 - THQ 731.6 K
Tony Hawk's Project 8 - Activision 713.9 K
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance - Activision 642.9 K


Top 10 Accessory Items - December 2006 Units
360 WIRELESS CONTROLLER 823.8 k
WII REMOTE CONTROLLER 646.7 k
WII NUNCHUK CONTROLLER 497.1 k
PS2 8 MEG MEMORY CARD 474.8 k
PS3 SIXAXIS WIRELESS CONTROLLER 336.0 k
PS2 MEMORY CARD 8 MEG 286.0 k
PS2/PS DUAL SHOCK2 CONTL 263.4 k
PS2/PS BLUE DL SH2 CNTL 245.2 k
360 PLAY & CHARGE KIT 224.6 k
PS2 CORDLESS ACTION CNTLR 219.9 k

CreatureX

Wow the PS2 is still smoking hot. Also shouldn't the combined sales of Zelda Wii/GC be on the "all platforms" chart?

darkside

Damn, Nintendo is kicking some serious ass. No one would have predicted this for the DS or their next console. So much for going the way of Sega.

PS2 should be strong for awhile. New Guitar Hero, God of War II and Rogue Galaxy all on the Way.

Question is will 360 put distance on the Wii or get overtaken and is the PS3 just starting slow or dead in the water.

Brent L

Aren't the PS3 numbers about where the 360 numbers were last year?

Then again, last year the 360 didn't have two new consoles to try to keep up with. So who knows how the PS3 will do over the next year.

Goldberg74

At first I thought that the GCN version ot tLoZ:TTP outsold the Wii, but then I realized that these numbers were December and that the Wii verion had a three week head start.

But still 1.1M copies of a game in one month is great!

Decker

Actually, what I'm most stunned about is the shocking success of Guitar Hero II. Yeah, it's the talk of gaming magazines and sites, but it's an $80 game with controller (and a rhythm game at that) and it outsold almost all other holiday games. Amazing.

Michael Corvin

What, MS didn't sell a single Xbox this year?

Everywhere I read counts Zelda GC/Wii as one title since it is the same game, putting it number 2 on the year behind GoW.

Demontooth

Didn't MS pull the XBox after the 360 came out? I haven't seen an XBox in a long time.

Coral

It's funny that there are no PS3 games on any of the sales charts. The biggest selling PS3 games (Resistence) I don't think even cracked the top 30.

Michael Corvin

well, I know during the monthy stats that get posted here that MS sold a few originals in Japan this year because they were ridiculously low number like 5 a week.

Brent L

Yeah, Guitar Hero is huge with a ton of people. I can't go into a Walmart or video game store or any other place that has displays and not see someone playing it. People of all ages too, it's insane.

But great.