Video Games Sale Thread #4 - Nintendo stole Christmas

The_Scarab

New NPDs, new thread. Old one was a hilarious 150+ pages too.

Anyways down to business:


Hardware:

 [B]PlayStation 2[/B] -- 496,000

 [B]PlayStation 3 [/B]-- 466,000

 [B]PlayStation Portable[/B] -- 567,000

 [B]Xbox 360[/B] -- 770,000

 [B]Wii[/B] -- 981,000

 [B]Nintendo DS [/B]-- 1,530,000

Software:

1. [B]Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare[/B] (Xbox 360) --1,570,000 

2. [B]Super Mario Galaxy[/B] (Wii) -- 1,120,000

3. [B]Assassin's Creed [/B](Xbox 360) -- 980,000 

4. [B]Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock[/B] (PlayStation 2) -- 967,000 

5. [B]Wii Play w/ Remote (Wii)[/B] -- 564,000 

6. [B]Mass Effect (Xbox 360)[/B] -- 473,000 

7. [B]Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare[/B] (PlayStation 3) -- 444,000

8. [B]Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock [/B](Wii) -- 426,000 

9. [B]Halo 3 (Xbox 360)[/B] -- 387,000 

10. [B]Assassin's Creed[/B] (PlayStation 3) -- 377,000

Other noteworthy figures:

Rock Band (360) -- 312k

Rock Band (PS3) -- 73k

Mario and Sonic at the Olympics -- 330k

Lego Star Wars (Wii) - 180k

High School Musical (Wii) - 180k

Zack & Wiki - 35k

bruin

1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) -- 1,570,000
2. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) -- 1,120,000
3. Assassin's Creed (Xbox 360) -- 980,000
4. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PlayStation 2) -- 967,000
5. Wii Play w/ Remote (Wii) -- 564,000
6. Mass Effect (Xbox 360) -- 473,000
7. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PlayStation 3) -- 444,000
8. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) -- 426,000
9. Halo 3 (Xbox 360) -- 387,000
10. Assassin's Creed (PlayStation 3) -- 377,000


Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

toxk_02

EDIT: beat'd. Whoo doggie COD4 surprise.

Khavall

That is a lot of DSs.

Wienke

I see the Playstation Family took 2nd place to the Nintendo DS.

Not too shabby.

Guek

COD4? hmm, i wasn't expecting that. I really thought it'd be AA, then galaxy. Too bad mario's a flop, eh?

bruin

PSP is lower than I expected. 360 is higher. DS and Wii are at the predictable ridiculous numbers.

TelMarine

wii play continues to sell a ton, wow.

darleysam

AC with 980,000 on the 360 alone?

GOOD GRAVY!

Guek

Wienke wrote: »

I see the Playstation Family took 2nd place to the Nintendo DS.

Not too shabby.

the playstaion family came 3rd next to the DS. it came 2nd next to the wii

urahonky

Holy shit. My hats off to AC. I hope I get it for Christmas...

That's a metric fuckton of DSes sold.

Guek

darleysam wrote: »

AC with 980,000 on the 360 alone?

GOOD GRAVY!

america likes stabbing things

Khavall

Guek wrote: »

Wienke wrote: »

I see the Playstation Family took 2nd place to the Nintendo DS.

Not too shabby.

the playstaion family came 3rd next to the DS. it came 2nd next to the wii

Playstation family includes PSP I believe.


Or PS2. Or PS3, whichever one of the three you forgot.

0blique

No, you have to add up all 3 PS platforms to get 1529000 - just 1k under the DS

Wienke

Guek wrote: »

Wienke wrote: »

I see the Playstation Family took 2nd place to the Nintendo DS.

Not too shabby.

the playstaion family came 3rd next to the DS. it came 2nd next to the wii

I'm including the PSP here.

For extra ridiculous.

Preacher

Guek wrote: »

Wienke wrote: »

I see the Playstation Family took 2nd place to the Nintendo DS.

Not too shabby.

the playstaion family came 3rd next to the DS. it came 2nd next to the wii

Nah with the psp in there it topped the wii.

Sheep

shryke wrote: »

Sleep wrote: »

Lunker wrote: »

slash000 wrote: »

titmouse wrote: »

The makers of rockband have pretty much confirmed that there will be a Wii version.

Every time someone asks about Rock Band on Wii, the typical response is:

"Well, just wait. We can't say anything. Except. Wait."

My guess is that they themselves are waiting on Nintendo to get Wii Ware up and running so that they can implement a downloadable service for new Rock Band stuff. Once that gets sorted out, I expect a Rock Band Wii to be announced.

In case you didn't hear, though, the PS2 version of Rock Band is coming out this week and it's apparently scaled down quite a bit from the 360/PS3 versions. No customizable characters, DLC or real Band World Tour mode as it exists in the other games (with fans, stadiums, setlists, etc.). Plus HMX sanctioned the project but they didn't helm the actual thing, so it's somewhat of a port. It will be interesting to see, if they choose to go with a Wii version, which one they end up using as a basis.

Do they seriously want to throw Rock Band under the Guitar Hero bus? Low shipments during a huge holiday season. Not supporting all consoles. Only comes with the entire bundle. It doesn't seem like Harmonix knows how to compete against their former product at all.

Look like 10 posts up. Basically, they had no choice. Something had to be cut. And honestly, customizable characters is probably the first thing I'd cut.

Of course they had a choice. It's the same thing that most developers come down to. Do we release, or do we wait a month to make sure everything is ready?

We know which one they chose. I just don't see why the 360/PS3 version wasn't pushed back to December, with the PS2 version pushed back further, since it's been gimped and isn't a representation of the entire game. If they had the marketing dollar behind it, and had the game available, and played up the "NEW GAME FROM THE CREATORS OF GUITAR HERO!!!" they could have competed and possibly have been THE go to game for the genre. Now? Not so much. They were in a bad position, for sure, but I think MTV went with immediate satisfaction of getting whatever sales they could through the holiday instead of spending a bit more time and money on it to pay off in the long run.

While the bulk of the porting work was done by *sorry, not released yet*, it is still very much a Harmonix product. There is absolutely no freakin' way you are going to see the same exact thing on the PS2 that you see on the 360/PS3. Platform design/limitations/etc mandate changes and Harmonix, like anyone else, has to adjust the design to accommodate.

We made a certain set of choices in order to deliver a game that is still awesome, and those that do not want to purchase a new console still have the opportunity to play some kick-ass Rock Band. The alternative is to not do PS2 at all.

I don't see how those choices require you to leave out game modes like World Tour or character customization. Graphical hitches? Yes. Entire game modes? No way.

Dodge Aspen

Those number are totally satisfying and a little surprising.

COD4 number 1! Galaxy outperforming AC! GH3 Wii outselling GH3 360! Another metric fuckton of DSes!

Unreal.

Lunker

Holy crap at Mario cresting 1 million sales in three weeks.

toxk_02

No handheld games in the Top 10. COD4 combined hit 2 million, nutty.

urahonky

Preacher wrote: »

Guek wrote: »

Wienke wrote: »

I see the Playstation Family took 2nd place to the Nintendo DS.

Not too shabby.

the playstaion family came 3rd next to the DS. it came 2nd next to the wii

Nah with the psp in there it topped the wii.

Nintendo's going out of business now.

GogoKodo

Guek wrote: »

Wienke wrote: »

I see the Playstation Family took 2nd place to the Nintendo DS.

Not too shabby.

the playstaion family came 3rd next to the DS. it came 2nd next to the wii

Not if you include the PSP.
ps2 + ps3 + psp = nds -1000
So the WHOLE playstation family beat out the wii.

MoogPaul

Wienke wrote: »

I see the Playstation Family took 2nd place to the Nintendo DS.

Not too shabby.

damn, the family lost to the DS, I guess we won't see these posted on sonydefenseforce.com

Guek

Khavall wrote: »

Guek wrote: »

Wienke wrote: »

I see the Playstation Family took 2nd place to the Nintendo DS.

Not too shabby.

the playstaion family came 3rd next to the DS. it came 2nd next to the wii

Playstation family includes PSP I believe.


Or PS2. Or PS3, whichever one of the three you forgot.

:P oops

0blique

MoogPaul wrote: »

Wienke wrote: »

I see the Playstation Family took 2nd place to the Nintendo DS.

Not too shabby.

damn, the family lost to the DS, I guess we won't see these posted on sonydefenseforce.com

They'll find some way to spin it, that's their job. It should be quite interesting.

Wienke

The real crime here is that Zack and Wiki has only sold 35,000 LIFETIME according to some reports.

I'm pretty sure the video game gods are angry over this and demand sacrifices.

toxk_02

More Wii numbers from IGN:

Mario & Sonic - 330K (comes in at #11)
LEGO Star Wars- 180K
H.S Musical- the same
Zack and Wiki- about 35K...lifetime
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Almost 500k total

SpaceDrake

So I did the math for something I heard earlier

A minute has sixty seconds in it

An hour has sixty minutes or 3600 seconds in it

A day thus has 24 hours or 86400 seconds in it

Thus the 4-week NPD reporting period had 2,419,200 seconds in it

If I am doing my math right

That means that during the reporting period a Nintendo DS sold in America roughly once every 1.6 seconds.

A little three-year-old dual-screened handheld is selling like that

I think this is rather unprecedented

Also I do like the software spread, although both of the PS3 top tens playing second fiddle to the X360 releases of the games does not bode well for Sony.

Sheep

Glad to see that Mario Galaxy looks to be on track to break 2 Mil + by the end of December. So much for the Sony nay sayers.

The_Scarab

My last minute predictions from the other thread:

Assassin's Creed 1 million NPD. √

Nintendo DS 2 million NPD X

AC to outsell Galaxy also. X

Ps3 less than 500k. √

360 800k √

Wii 1.5 million X

Mass Effect 400k √

Halo 3 still up there. √


Games I predict that will bomb? maybe uncharted √

other talking points: some ludicrous non game in the top 10 like DS speech therapy or something stupid.√ (Wii play just for the controller)

PSP sales up loads too i expect. √

Guek

i find it interesting that the high end versions of GHIII fell out of the top ten altogether

MistaCreepy

toxk_02 wrote: »

No handheld games in the Top 10. COD4 combined hit 2 million, nutty.

Don't forget the PC version... do they not track PC game sales?

shryke

Sleep wrote: »

shryke wrote: »

Sleep wrote: »

Lunker wrote: »

slash000 wrote: »

titmouse wrote: »

The makers of rockband have pretty much confirmed that there will be a Wii version.

Every time someone asks about Rock Band on Wii, the typical response is:

"Well, just wait. We can't say anything. Except. Wait."

My guess is that they themselves are waiting on Nintendo to get Wii Ware up and running so that they can implement a downloadable service for new Rock Band stuff. Once that gets sorted out, I expect a Rock Band Wii to be announced.

In case you didn't hear, though, the PS2 version of Rock Band is coming out this week and it's apparently scaled down quite a bit from the 360/PS3 versions. No customizable characters, DLC or real Band World Tour mode as it exists in the other games (with fans, stadiums, setlists, etc.). Plus HMX sanctioned the project but they didn't helm the actual thing, so it's somewhat of a port. It will be interesting to see, if they choose to go with a Wii version, which one they end up using as a basis.

Do they seriously want to throw Rock Band under the Guitar Hero bus? Low shipments during a huge holiday season. Not supporting all consoles. Only comes with the entire bundle. It doesn't seem like Harmonix knows how to compete against their former product at all.

Look like 10 posts up. Basically, they had no choice. Something had to be cut. And honestly, customizable characters is probably the first thing I'd cut.

Of course they had a choice. It's the same thing that most developers come down to. Do we release, or do we wait a month to make sure everything is ready?

We know which one they chose. I just don't see why the 360/PS3 version wasn't pushed back to December, with the PS2 version pushed back further, since it's been gimped and isn't a representation of the entire game. If they had the marketing dollar behind it, and had the game available, and played up the "NEW GAME FROM THE CREATORS OF GUITAR HERO!!!" they could have competed and possibly have been THE go to game for the genre. Now? Not so much. They were in a bad position, for sure, but I think MTV went with immediate satisfaction of getting whatever sales they could through the holiday instead of spending a bit more time and money on it to pay off in the long run.

While the bulk of the porting work was done by *sorry, not released yet*, it is still very much a Harmonix product. There is absolutely no freakin' way you are going to see the same exact thing on the PS2 that you see on the 360/PS3. Platform design/limitations/etc mandate changes and Harmonix, like anyone else, has to adjust the design to accommodate.

We made a certain set of choices in order to deliver a game that is still awesome, and those that do not want to purchase a new console still have the opportunity to play some kick-ass Rock Band. The alternative is to not do PS2 at all.

I don't see how those choices require you to leave out game modes like World Tour or character customization. Graphical hitches? Yes. Entire game modes? No way.

Oh please. From the sounds of it, this is hardware limitations stepping in. Three's shit all they can do about that.

toxk_02

Rockband 360 - 312k
Rockband PS3 - 70k

Assassin's Creed
PS3 - 377,000
360 - 980,000

Call of Duty 4
PS3 - 444,000
360 - 1,570,000

I think I found Microsoft's PR statement.

Sheep

Dodge Aspen wrote: »

GH3 Wii outselling GH3 360!

Unreal.

Lies.

Everyone knows no one buys third party games on Nintendo platforms.

slash000

ack, I'm here now guys!


So, it looks like a 3:1 may become a standard figure for a while, for 360/PS3 software multiplat

A's Creed? 3:1
COD4? 3:1
Rock band? 3:1


I think GH3 was at least 3:1, since the PS3 vsn didn't crack top 10..
and I think Madden/EA stuff is usually a 3:1 or 4:1 ratio..




Anywya, So the DS did amazing.

But what was the last major DS release?

phantom hourglass?

SpaceDrake

Also I like how Mario broke a million here after getting off to a bit of a slow start in Japan.

slash000

Also,

Mario Galaxy: >1M.


Take that, Japan.!

Guek

toxk_02 wrote: »

Rockband 360 - 312k
Rockband PS3 - 70k

Assassin's Creed
PS3 - 377,000
360 - 980,000

Call of Duty 4
PS3 - 444,000
360 - 1,570,000

I think I found Microsoft's PR statement.

how much of that has to do with lack of demand over low shipments?

edit: talkin 'bout rock band

tyrannus

wow, I am so glad that Call of Duty 4 did so well. I love that game.

Jragghen

Wii sales > PS2 sales + PS3 sales.

Also, nice numbers for Mario Galaxy. And rightfully so. Great, great game.