1.PS3 Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan!　178000 2.PS2 Gundam Musou Special　55000 (204000) 3.WII Wii Fit　50000 (1639000) 4.WII Super Smash Bros Brawl　47000 (1445000) 5.WII Metroid Prime Corruption　34000 6.NDS Soma Bringer　17000 (71000) 7.WII Wii Sports　16000 (2798000) 8.PSP Musou Orochi　15000 (95000) 9.NDS Doraemon　15000 10.WII Minna no Joushiki Ryoku TV　14000 DSL　45000 PSP　66000 Wii　51000 PS3　21000 PS2　8800 360　2500
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Jesse Divnich, analyst for The simExchange, has told GamesIndustry.biz that the forthcoming price cut for the Xbox 360 is a necessary reaction to Sony's Blu-ray victory.
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Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii game console outsold Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 nearly 4-to-1 in Japan in February as Wii software titles dominated the best seller list, a game magazine publisher said. Nintendo sold 331,627 units of the Wii in the four weeks to Feb. 24, compared with 89,131 units of the PS3, Enterbrain said on Thursday.
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Throughout this week, simExchange analyst Jesse Divnich is presenting exclusive Gamasutra analysis of January's hardware and software trends, using data from The simExchange, NPD, IGN GamerMetrics and GameTrailers. Today's chart analysis examines year-over-year software-sales increases for the next two months.
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Analysts suggest Nintendo & MS made decisions that would lead to shortages. "Wii shortages were compounded by diversion of supply to JA to support Wii Fit and SSBB." Evan Wilson: MS said supply constraints dampened sales, consistent with us. "However, we don't believe underestimation of demand led to big constraints given recent sales volume. More likely due to comp. restrictions or intentional drying of channel before a new-product launch.""
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"Consumers spent nearly ten billion dollars on videogame software last year, according to data from the NPD Group and the Entertainment Software Association. The bulk of that was on console games, which saw $6.6 billion in sales. Handheld software saw $2 billion, while PC games trailed with $0.9 billion. (Data table included with article.)"
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Burnout tops with a close split 53:47 between 360 & PS3. Largest week 4 no. 1 since GT2 8 years ago. Paradise is followed by Mario & Sonic and Call of Duty 4. This link is to a summary. Use the nav above to browse the latest charts.
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Yesterday The NPD Group released their list for the top 10 selling PC games of 2007. Today, however, they have announced they actually made an error with their chart. Here are the updated numbers.
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Xbox 360 Drives the Video Game Console Industry in 2007: NPD data released today confirms consumers spent more dollars on Xbox 360 in 2007, with more than $13.7 billion in total consumer spending. Xbox 360 won 2007 with $4.8 billion in total consumer spend compared to Wii with $3.5 billion and PlayStation 3 with $2.2 billion. This wraps up a historic year, with NPD reporting consumers have spent nearly 45 percent of total industry figures on Xbox 360.
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Industry Sales @ $2.2B Our forecasts for console hardware sales are as follows (The simExchange prediction market forecasts are provided for comparison): WMS TSE* Wii 1,450,000 1,730,000 PS3 875,000 854,000 Xbox 360 1,250,000 1,450,000 PS2 975,000 n/a PSP 1,075,000 1,030,000 DS 2,450,000 2,900,000 GBA 85,000 n/a
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