Data care of NPD Group
Reporting Period: 11/1 - 11/28/09


PlayStation 2 203.1K
PlayStation 3 710.4K
PSP 293.9K
Xbox 360 819.5K
Wii 1.26M
Nintendo DS 1.70M


CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2* 360 ACTIVISION BLIZZARD Nov-09 4.20M
CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2* PS3 ACTIVISION BLIZZARD Nov-09 1.87M
NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Nov-09 1.39M
ASSASSIN'S CREED II 360 UBISOFT Nov-09 794.7K
LEFT 4 DEAD 2 360 ELECTRONIC ARTS Nov-09 744.0K
WII SPORTS RESORT* WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Jul-09 720.2K
WII FIT PLUS* WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Oct-09 679.0K
ASSASSIN'S CREED II PS3 UBISOFT Nov-09 448.4K
DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS* 360 ELECTRONIC ARTS Nov-09 362.1K
MARIO KART W/ WHEEL WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Apr-08 315.0K

I looked up last year's numbers for comparison -

1. Wii -- 2.04 million
2. Nintendo DS -- 1.56 million
3. Xbox 360 -- 836,000
4. PSP -- 421,000
5. PlayStation 3 -- 378,000
6. PlayStation 2 -- 206,000


PS3 is almost double last year which is pretty impressive, but the 360 managed to climb back and beat it this month. Despite being down a bit from last year, I think that's pretty solid. Those COD MW2 numbers are crazy, especially the 360/PS3 split.

CoD is a juggernaut. I'm also glad to see Assassin's Creed pull in almost as many sales as Mario (1.243m). I am surprised at the numbers of L4D2, I didn't think they'd be quite that high.

Holy shit!!!

I'm surprised about Dragon Age, that's a new IP right? Was that because it was from Bioware? And I mean, that's in the same month that MW2 and AC2 were released.

now can we make fun of PS3 again?

The most surprising number is MW2 on PS3 outselling SMB.

Do these numbers include sales from Walmart? Remember, they ran that insane "buy a 360 Arcade unit for $199 and get a free $100 gift card" offer for a week or so in this time period....you know a deal that good moved some consoles, as I was reading posts online from current 360 owners who were buying a second console just for backup purposes or to upgrade to the latest "Jasper" (or whatever it is called) chipset....

Just because it was behind the 360? I think it's a mixed bag. While it's what I always expected after a few months, it still was the only console to have an increase over last year so the price cut and new design is still of interest to consumers. Selling quite a bit more over the 3-400K in previous years is a plus, but still trailing the 360 has to be a bit of a disappointment.

Any sales numbers for Tony Hawk RIDE? I need a good today.

I just read 114k

NPD typically estimates Wal-Mart sales numbers.

Yup.

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/t...ith-114k-sold/

That actually doesn't seem that terrible to me. I would have guessed worse.

Yeah, that's pretty terrible, but honestly I expected much worse, since the peak number of 360voice members who played it was 50 (or one-third of the 150 who bought Qix++ yesterday ); now it's about 18-21 per night. Bet that online community is really hopping!

I had no idea it was $120

because every Sony fanboy is like "watch for the PS3 to kill the Xbox 360 during the Christmas sales" and that hasn't really happened.

Looks like this was the breakdown from Gamespot -


Yeah, I figured that was what you meant. I don't think it's that bad, but for those expecting Sony to rule from here on out that obviously didn't happen.

Does anyone know how the PSP GO is doing?

considering the sales numbers all over the world look pretty weak, i'm going to assume they are weak here, too.

What's an "NPD"?

Very bad. It'll need a price reduction of about $100 for people to even care about it.

Strong numbers all-around and no real surprises. I figured the Arcade sales would lead to some strong numbers. $100 for a HD console is pretty crazy. Hell...even I bought one!

I'm personally disappointed at Activision's dominance, as I think they are a terrible company. It was nice to see DJ Hero and Tony Hawk tank a bit, but I think they'd get by just fine with WoW and annual CoDs.

Really? The buzz/hype of MW2 was just like Halo 3. In 3-4 months when MW sales start to go down, SMB will continue to hang around the top10

Well, the Wii has almost 3x the number of owners as the PS3 in NA and is the only major release on it in a while.

The sheer quantity of hardware sold amazes me. A lot of happy new console owners this Christmas.

SMB doing 1.39 mill is insane to me. I haven't played it yet, but I loves me some Mario, but I was worried some folks might have been turned off by the 2d nature of it. Not to mention, while it's surely an impressive game, it had to be buckets cheaper to make than MW2, so there's that. And speaking of, MW2 sales are just redonkulous. Good for them.

Also, good to see those people boycotting L4D2 really sticking to their guns.