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March NPD Sales Numbers
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/new...hp?story=23244
Video game industry sales slumped 17 percent in the U.S. during March to $1.43 billion, according to NPD Group. It's the first time since September 2008 that NPD Group reported a drop in overall industry sales, when a tough comp against September 2007's Halo 3 led to a 7 percent revenue dip. But NPD analyst Anita Frazier said it's not a time to panic that the recession resistant games industry is beginning to implode. "While it might be tempting to jump to the conclusion that the sky is starting to fall on the video games industry given this month's results, it's important to remember that two very big things are different this year than last," she said. "First, Easter fell in March last year whereas it fell in April this year, and last March included the release of Super Smash Bros.: Brawl, which went on to become the fourth best-selling game in 2008." Hardware sales were down 18 percent to $4.55 million, with Nintendo once again leading with the Wii and DS. Software slid 17 percent to $792.83 million, with Resident Evil 5 driving sales. Across PS3 and Xbox 360, the game sold over 1.5 million units in March, its opening month. Frazier noted that it was a "record-breaking launch for that property." Wii - 601,000 DS - 563,000 Xbox 360 - 330,000 PS3 - 218,000 PSP - 168,000 PS2 - 112,000 Software 1. Resident Evil 5 (Capcom, Xbox 360) - 938K 2. Pokemon Platinum (Nintendo, DS) - 805K 3. Halo Wars (Microsoft, Xbox 360) - 639K 4. Resident Evil 5 (Capcom, PS3) - 585K 5. Wii Fit w/ Balance Board (Nintendo, Wii) - 541K 6. MLB '09: The Show (Sony, PS3) - 305K 7. Killzone 2 - (Sony, PS3) - 296K 8. Wii Play w/ Remote (Nintendo, Wii) - 281K 9. Mario Kart w/ Wheel (Nintendo, Wii) - 278K 10. MLB 2K9 (Take-Two, Xbox 360) - 205K Pretty nice take for Resident Evil 5. Looks like Halo Wars sold decently. |
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RE5 outsold Killzone 2 by nearly 2-to-1 on the PS3. That's a little surprising to me.
Oh wait, I thought we weren't allowed to talk about sales numbers anymore. :sarcasm: |
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Originally Posted by Decker
(Post 9392341)
RE5 outsold Killzone 2 by nearly 2-to-1 on the PS3. That's a little surprising to me.
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Damn. 1.5 million for RE5. Not bad at all. Apparently the demo didn't turn people off from buying it.
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Re: March NPD Sales Numbers
Originally Posted by Decker
(Post 9392341)
RE5 outsold Killzone 2 by nearly 2-to-1 on the PS3. That's a little surprising to me.
Oh wait, I thought we weren't allowed to talk about sales numbers anymore. :sarcasm: |
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Originally Posted by Fandango
(Post 9392499)
Actually it didnt, Killzone 2 sold 323k the last 2 days of Feb, so if you total that with this months numbers it is over 600k. The most surprising figure is MLB09 sales.
Edit: Actually VGchatz paints a different picture. The show GTA selling steadily and already being over 200K. If it has the legs of most DS titles it probably will be a slow burn and head steadily over a million. Granted I have no idea where their numbers come from. |
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Originally Posted by darkside
(Post 9392554)
Edit: Actually VGchatz paints a different picture. The show GTA selling steadily and already being over 200K. If it has the legs of most DS titles it probably will be a slow burn and head steadily over a million. Granted I have no idea where their numbers come from.
This seems to paint a fairly poor picture :sad: Although honestly, versus the other games in the series I didn't really see any marketing for the release on DS. |
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Where did the 89K number come from?
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Originally Posted by RichC2
(Post 9392572)
Where did the 89K number come from?
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Originally Posted by fumanstan
(Post 9392568)
http://kotaku.com/5215529/report-gra...ales-are-awful
This seems to paint a fairly poor picture :sad: Although honestly, versus the other games in the series I didn't really see any marketing for the release on DS. |
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Wonder if it’s the economy finally catching up or just coincidence. Looks like every console except the 360 is down from last March.
System – March 2009 – March 2008 – change Wii – 601,000 – 721,000 – down 120,000 DS – 563,000 – 698,000 – down 135,000 360 – 330,000 – 262,000 – up 68,000 PS3 – 218,000 – 257,000 – down 39,000 PS2 – 112,000 – 216,000 – down 104,000 PSP – 168,000 – 297,000 – down 129,000 Software’s not as bad, if you discount for the fact that last year saw Smash Brothers Brawl do 2.7 million. That’s pretty much $135 million of the $152 million drop in sales. |
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Its surprising because The Show series has never been in the top 10 I don't think.
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I'm very surprised that RE5 sold so much better on the 360. I figured it would have been like Tomb Raider Underworld, where it made its name on the Playstation consoles and reflected that in sales.
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Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
(Post 9392734)
I'm very surprised that RE5 sold so much better on the 360. I figured it would have been like Tomb Raider Underworld, where it made its name on the Playstation consoles and reflected that in sales.
Better comparison is probably Devil May Cry, which sold better on the PS3 worldwide (1.26m vs 1.11m), but sold 200,000 more copies on the 360 vs. PS3 in the US. |
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Its not too surprising, they had a special RE5 bundle and all....
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Congrats to the former Ensemble Studios for their Halo Wars success.
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[QUOTE=darkside;9392554
Edit: Actually VGchatz paints a different picture. The show GTA selling steadily and already being over 200K. If it has the legs of most DS titles it probably will be a slow burn and head steadily over a million. Granted I have no idea where their numbers come from.[/QUOTE] Dear lord I wish people would stop using numbers from VGcgartz... They get data from ONE small retail store, and they make up thee numbers for the rest of the country... NPD gets data from every major place (except Wal-Mart), so NPDs numbers are solid |
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Originally Posted by maxfisher
(Post 9392614)
Wonder if its the economy finally catching up or just coincidence.
System March 2009 March 2008 change Wii 601,000 721,000 down 120,000 |
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Halo Wars is a bit of a surprise. I wonder if the DSi will make a big difference next month for the DS numbers.
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Originally Posted by Chris_D
(Post 9393111)
Congrats to the former Ensemble Studios for their Halo Wars success.
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That really isn't true, unless they integrated Halo plot into the Yaris universe. Mind bottling.
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First it wasn't a free map pack since the LE was $10 more than any other LE. Second, you don't honestly believe 640k people dropped $80 just for the maps do you? We would have to see how the standard and LE were split, sales-wise to determine that percentage.
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Originally Posted by Decker
(Post 9393210)
Okaaayy..... but you do realize that if MS repackaged Yaris on a disc and called it Halo Yaris and included a free Halo 3 map pack, it would probably be a big hit, don't you?
I doubt it, word about that kind of thing gets around. Halo Wars was a pretty damn fine implementation of an RTS in the Halo universe. |
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Some other notes as far as M rated games go -
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/new...hp?story=23255 Sega and Platinum Games' violent stylized action game Madworld sold 66,000 units in the U.S. following its March 10th debut, NPD Group told Gamasutra. Sales performance for the Wii-exclusive was modest, increasingly typical for Mature-rated games (ages 17 and up) that appear on Nintendo's generally family-friendly console. Madworld's gameplay is purposely over-the-top, with vibrant red blood splattering across a virtually all black-and-white environment, complete with cursing -- a far cry content-wise from top-selling Wii software such as Wii Fit and Mario Kart. Madworld has been well-received by game reviewers, earning an average score of 82 percent on Metacritic. In February, Sega's other gory M-rated Wii game, the light gun shooter House of the Dead: Overkill, sold 45,000 units in its debut month in the U.S., according to NPD. |
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Okay, so I exagerated (a little). My point was that the sales numbers for Halo Wars had FAR more to do with Halo's popularity than the quality of the game (which is pretty good for a console RTS game). If the game were not associated with the Halo universe, it would play exactly the same and sell about as well as Tom Clancy's Endwar, I'sd suspect.
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