Video Game Sales Thread: Why so Serious? (About Numbers)

Xenogears of Bore

WHO?

Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft.

WHAT?

United States Software and Hardware sales figures collected by NPD.

WHERE?

Right here. (and NeoGAF until it crashes from all the F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5)

WHEN?

NPD for May will be released tonight at around 6:30 Eastern Standard Time.

WHY?

E-Dick measuring between fanboys and a good indicator of general video game health in the states. Also to win fabulous* prizes!

HOW?

This story is actually pretty funny. NPDs (The whole damn report) used to be leaked at NeoGAF and a few other sites for this dick measuring. However NPD makes money by selling this data and they were not pleased, as it is rather difficult to get people to buy the cow when the milk is free. So a deal was struck. NeoGAF would get the hardware numbers and the top ten software titles as long as they banned anyone who leaked the rest of the list.

CAN'T WAIT THAT LONG!

Wait no longer.

HW
Wii 675.1K
Nintendo DS 452.6K
PlayStation 3 208.7K
Xbox 360 186.6K
PlayStation Portable 182.3K
PlayStation 2 132.7k




SW Top 10
Top 10 SKU's May 2008 Rank # Units
(includes CE, GOTY editions, bundles, etc.)
360 GRAND THEFT AUTO IV TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE (CORP) APR 2008 1 871.3K
WII MARIO KART W/ WHEEL NINTENDO OF AMERICA APR 2008 2 787.4K
WII FIT W/ BALANCE BOARD NINTENDO OF AMERICA MAY 2008 3 687.7K
PS3 GRAND THEFT AUTO IV TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE (CORP) APR 2008 4 442.9K
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA FEB 2007 5 294.6K
WII SUPER SMASH BROS: BRAWL NINTENDO OF AMERICA MAR 2008 6 171.1K
PS2 IRON MAN SEGA OF AMERICA APR 2008 7 130.6K
WII GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK W/ WIREACTIVISION (CORP) OCT 2007 8 116.8K
NDS POKEMON MYSTERY DUNGEON: EXPLORERS OF DARKNESS NOA APR 2008 9 107K
NDS POKEMON MYSTERY DUNGEON: EXPLORERS OF TIME NOA APR 2008 10 102K

NPD for APRIL '08

Hardware
PlayStation 2 124.4K
PlayStation 3 187.1K
PSP 192.7K
Xbox 360 188.0K
Wii 714.2K
Nintendo DS 414.8K

Top 10 VG Titles - April'08
Units*
360 GTA IV 1.85mm
Wii Mario Kart w/ wheel 1.12mm
PS3 GTA IV 1.00mm
Wii Play 360K
Wii Super Smash Bros. Brawl 326K
PS3 Gran Turismo 5: Prologue 224K
DS Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness 202K
DS Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time 202K
Wii Guitar Hero III 152K
360 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 141K

Or how about some predictions?

The Scarab
[Wii] 650k
[PS3] 178k
[DS] 470k
[PSP] 150k
[PS2] 140k

Dr Mario Kart
[360] 180k
[NDS] 390k
[PS2] 90k
[PS3] 175k
[PSP] 170k
[WII] 726k

JCRooks
[360] 196K
[NDS] 380K
[PS2] 120K
[PS3] 184K
[PSP] 180K
[WII] 750K

Xaquin
[360] 178K
[NDS] 360K
[PS2] 110K
[PS3] 175K
[PSP] 170K
[WII] 740K

Sheep
[360] 220k
[NDS] 375k
[PS2] 100k
[PS3] 200k
[PSP] 180k
[WII] 700k

lowlylowlycook
[360] 180k
[NDS] 380k
[PS2] 110k
[PS3] 175k
[PSP] 180k
[WII] 800k

Titmouse
PlayStation 2 120k
PlayStation 3 210k
PSP 200k
Xbox 360 210k
Wii 750k
Nintendo DS 400k

BigWah
[360] 200k
[NDS] 420k
[PS2] 115k
[PS3] 195k
[PSP] 205k
[WII] Fire of a Million suns (1000k)

RainbowDespair
Playstation 2 105k
Playstation 3 200k
PSP 180k
XBox 360 203k
Wii 770k
Nintendo DS 500k

Ringo
PlayStation 2 121K
PlayStation 3 183K
PSP 199K
Xbox 360 190K
Wii 799K
Nintendo DS 420K

toxk_02
[360] 200k
[NDS] 405k
[PS2] 105k
[PS3] 185k
[PSP] 176k
[WII] 750k

Plufim
[360] 210k
[NDS] 425k
[PS2] 95k
[PS3] 185k
[PSP] 140k
[WII] 900k

Cloudeagle
[360] 190k
[NDS] 450k
[PS2] 90k
[PS3] 180k
[PSP] 170k
[WII] 950k

Pachter
[WII] 750K
[NDS] 550K
[360] 250K
[PS3] 225K
[PSP] 200K
[PS2] 125K

SimExchange:
[WII] 744K
[NDS] 510K
[360] 216K
[PS3] 228K
[PSP] 211K
[PS2] N/A

MistaCreepy
[360] 0K
[NDS] 0K
[PS2] 0K
[PS3] 9999999999999K
[PSP] 0K
[WII] -1K

For something a bit more current and foreign you can chew on this weeks Media-Create software sales for Japan.

Media - Create 6/2 - 6/8

01./00. [PS3] Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit (Bandai-Namco) - 92,000 / NEW
02./00. [WII] Mysterious Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren 3 (Sega) - 59,000 / NEW
03./01. [PSP] Powerful Pro Baseball Portable 3 (Konami) - 43,000 / 159,000
04./03. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) - 39,000 / 1,406,000
05./00. [NDS] DS Misa Yamamura Suspense: Kyoto Murder Files (Tecmo) - 38,000 / NEW
06./05. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Capcom) - 35,000 / 2,177,000
07./04. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) - 34,000 / 2,190,000
08./00. [360] Ninja Gaiden 2 (Tecmo) - 25,000 / NEW
09./06. [WII] Family Trainer (Bandai-Namco) - 15,000 / 59,000
10./12. [NDS] DS Beautiful Letter Training (Nintendo) - 15,000 / 267,000

11./08. [PSP] Valhalla Knights 2 (Marvelous Entertainment)
12./00. [360] Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit (Bandai-Namco)
13./17. [NDS] Taiko Drum Master DS: Seven Island Adventure (Bandai-Namco)
14./10. [NDS] Empty Space Training (Benesse)
15./02. [NDS] Endless Frontier: Super Robot Wars OG Saga (Bandai-Namco)
16./19. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo)
17./22. [NDS] We're Fossil Diggers (Nintendo)
18./26. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
19./27. [NDS] Pokémon Ranger: Batonnage (Pokémon)
20./25. [WII] Link's Crossbow Training (Nintendo)
21./28. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
22./14. [NDS] Riddle Training (Benesse)
23./00. [NDS] 99 Tears (Bandai-Namco)
24./13. [NDS] Front Mission 2089: Border of Madness (Square-Enix)
25./23. [WII] Battalion Wars 2 (Nintendo)
26./09. [PS2] Mana Khemia 2: The Fallen School and the Alchemists (Gust)
27./30. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
28./29. [NDS] Tottado! Yowiko's Deserted Island Life (Bandai-Namco)
29./18. [PS3] Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (Ubi Soft)
30./40. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)

NDS - 13
WII - 9
PSP - 3
PS3 - 2
360 - 2
PS2 - 1

ANY MORE QUESTIONS?

Sure.

Will the Wii Burn with the power of a million suns?

Will the stimulus checks and residual GTA IV propel the Triple and 360 over last months dissapointment?

Just how pronounced are the Wii Fit/Mario Kart Wii Shortages?

Will the Wii pass the US XBOX 360 total sales mark thereby becoming supreme overlord of all three regions and possibly a Highlander? (All signs point to probably.)

Will someone craft a song worthy of this thread?

Will the DS print more worthless greenbacks or will it switch over to Sterling or Euros???

Whose Cuisine Will Reign Supreme?

*Maybe. Fabulousness not guaranteed.

Spoit

No song, but I do have a vidcon:

Xenogears of Bore

Even better than having it in the OP.

Vidcons are so niche, but so very well done. The creator really understands the sillyness and hopes and fears of the console wars.

Mainly the sillyness though.

Cullen

Do we have a link to more vidcons? That strip is golden.

Xenogears of Bore

www.castle-vidcons.com

darleysam

Who let Xeno make the thread?

Icemopper

In the last panel, it should have been spelled forfit.

Just for bad puns.

plufim

So about 10 hours to go?

lowlylowlycook

Ok men this is NPD day. Lock and load any relevant gifs and lets give them hell.

darleysam

LOLSONYS, GET YOUR LOLSONYS HERE

I got Red Rings, I got Whale Penis, £2 each or 2 for £3.

plufim

I invested heavily in Picards.

Couscous

plufim wrote: »

I invested heavily in Picards.

I believe Darth Vaders will do well for a long time.

lowlylowlycook

titmouse wrote: »

plufim wrote: »

I invested heavily in Picards.

I believe Darth Vaders will do well for a long time.

Darth has some mega legs. Artificial legs, it's true, but long as fuck.

Eteric

darleysam wrote: »

LOLSONYS, GET YOUR LOLSONYS HERE

I got Red Rings, I got Whale Penis, £2 each or 2 for £3.

I'll have a LOLSONY!

Eteric

Eteric wrote: »

darleysam wrote: »

LOLSONYS, GET YOUR LOLSONYS HERE

I got Red Rings, I got Whale Penis, £2 each or 2 for £3.

I'll have a LOLSONY!

So NPD is today? God, MGS4 and NPD all in one day.

:O

Xaquin

Eteric wrote: »

darleysam wrote: »

LOLSONYS, GET YOUR LOLSONYS HERE

I got Red Rings, I got Whale Penis, £2 each or 2 for £3.

I'll have a LOLSONY!

I'll take two 'It prints Money'

lowlylowlycook

Speaking of MGS, the gaf thread might not have so many meltdowns this month. The PA comic thread went out of control as MGS and PS3 fans started accusing Gabe and Tycho of being paid to dis MGS. Over 20 were banned.

Ringo

Apparently they've never read any of the other MGS comics then

darleysam

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

Speaking of MGS, the gaf thread might not have so many meltdowns this month. The PA comic thread went out of control as MGS and PS3 fans started accusing Gabe and Tycho of being paid to dis MGS. Over 20 were banned.

Wait, PA comic thread on GAF? Nice!

PeregrineFalcon

Giant Enemy Crabs! Get your Giant Enemy Crabs here! Only one weak point, and you have to flip them to get at it!

JCRooks

Dang, as soon as training's over, I'm rushing back home to see the NPD goodness. I'm such a nerd.

Xaquin

I don't really get why half those people were banned.

Vyolynce

PeregrineFalcon wrote: »

Giant Enemy Crabs! Get your Giant Enemy Crabs here! Only one weak point, and you have to flip them to get at it!

Aw, crap! Mine's suffered massive damage...

Jragghen

That comic is fantastic.

Sheep

I had a beautiful post up about how Nintendo won't release the Wii's successor until MS and Sony make a move, and given that they were so successful with the Wii, have a knack for improving well known technology, and now have the confidence to release new technology, they may even wait until the PS4 and the 720 are released.

One thing is for sure, both the R&D team and Intelligent Systems have already begun work on it. Hell, they may even know exactly what they'll do. Just a matter of refining the system.

I would imagine that the next Nintendo console will be on par or slightly more capable than the 360. GPUs will have come a long way. The Xenon is a PowerPC, right? Isn't that architecture pretty self contained? Couldn't Nintendo move to it and keep BC with the Wii/Cube?

The post was much longer but some how got deleted.

I don't really get why half those people were banned.

Well, the mods realized that they were pretty close to GameFAQs quality, so they're making an effort to root out the bullshit.

They also ban linking to Kotaku from time to time when Kotaku's retardness reaches stupid levels.

So, I can get behind that. Especially when they started banning people for freaking out about review scores.

cloudeagle

If banning a few doofuses results in raising the overall IQ score there, I'm all for it. As it stands that place hurts my brain.

Anyway, a suggestion for the contest. Since we've got the predictions published in the OP, how about everyone figure out how far off they were on each system themselves instead of making one poor person hunch over a calculator for a few hours?

Xaquin

cloudeagle wrote: »

Anyway, a suggestion for the contest. Since we've got the predictions published in the OP, how about everyone figure out how far off they were on each system themselves instead of making one poor person hunch over a calculator for a few hours?

Can do.

cloudeagle

Which reminds me, I'm almost assuredly not going to win this time since my anticipated flood of Wiis to coincide with Wii Fit didn't come to pass. Ah well.

bigwah

cloudeagle wrote: »

If banning a few doofuses results in raising the overall IQ score there, I'm all for it. As it stands that place hurts my brain.

Anyway, a suggestion for the contest. Since we've got the predictions published in the OP, how about everyone figure out how far off they were on each system themselves instead of making one poor person hunch over a calculator for a few hours?

Didnt someone at one time have a excel spreadsheet that they pasted the entries and the NPD in and it calculated it all? I'd do one up, but I'm at work at the moment (and will be when NPDs come out)

lowlylowlycook

Uh, anyone have a link to a good example of the use of

protip: blah blah blah

from whatever magazine uses that? I need to steal the formatting.

Ganluan

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

Uh, anyone have a link to a good example of the use of

protip: blah blah blah

from whatever magazine uses that? I need to steal the formatting.

It's from GamePro, if that helps.

shryke

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

www.castle-vidcons.com

I don't get like half of those.

Like I can't figure out what console the people are.

cloudeagle

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

Uh, anyone have a link to a good example of the use of

protip: blah blah blah

from whatever magazine uses that? I need to steal the formatting.

Gamepro does it all the time whenever they print some usually obvious and brain-dead "tip" for a game to pad out a review.

Such as

Protip: Mario can squash Goombas flat if he jumps on their heads.

Edit: Or at least they did, I haven't read the thing in years. It might have gotten more intelligent lately, but considering the last time I checked they featured the fuckin' Family Guy game on the cover, I doubt it.

darleysam

shryke wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

www.castle-vidcons.com

I don't get like half of those.

Like I can't figure out what console the people are.

Glad I'm not the only one.

Couscous

cloudeagle wrote: »

If banning a few doofuses results in raising the overall IQ score there, I'm all for it. As it stands that place hurts my brain.

Seriously.

in before PA visits Microsoft and never makes another harsh statment about the Xbox brand again, suddenly finds the resources to host PAX, their work is featured on Live Marketplace, and they gather enough financial backing to create a game post.

darleysam

titmouse wrote: »

cloudeagle wrote: »

If banning a few doofuses results in raising the overall IQ score there, I'm all for it. As it stands that place hurts my brain.

Seriously.

in before PA visits Microsoft and never makes another harsh statment about the Xbox brand again, suddenly finds the resources to host PAX, their work is featured on Live Marketplace, and they gather enough financial backing to create a game post.

8.8

8.8

8.8

lowlylowlycook

cloudeagle wrote: »

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

Uh, anyone have a link to a good example of the use of

protip: blah blah blah

from whatever magazine uses that? I need to steal the formatting.

Gamepro does it all the time whenever they print some usually obvious and brain-dead "tip" for a game to pad out a review.

Such as

Protip: Mario can squash Goombas flat if he jumps on their heads.

Edit: Or at least they did, I haven't read the thing in years. It might have gotten more intelligent lately, but considering the last time I checked they featured the fuckin' Family Guy game on the cover, I doubt it.

So on their website the formatting is just a gray caption underneath the picture. Is that how it is in print?

cloudeagle

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

cloudeagle wrote: »

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

Uh, anyone have a link to a good example of the use of

protip: blah blah blah

from whatever magazine uses that? I need to steal the formatting.

Gamepro does it all the time whenever they print some usually obvious and brain-dead "tip" for a game to pad out a review.

Such as

Protip: Mario can squash Goombas flat if he jumps on their heads.

Edit: Or at least they did, I haven't read the thing in years. It might have gotten more intelligent lately, but considering the last time I checked they featured the fuckin' Family Guy game on the cover, I doubt it.

So on their website the formatting is just a gray caption underneath the picture. Is that how it is in print?

Er. Finding a Penny Arcader who actually reads Gamepro on a regular basis could be a tall order, since the rag is pretty insulting to your intelligence.

wyrlss

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

cloudeagle wrote: »

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

Uh, anyone have a link to a good example of the use of

protip: blah blah blah

from whatever magazine uses that? I need to steal the formatting.

Gamepro does it all the time whenever they print some usually obvious and brain-dead "tip" for a game to pad out a review.

Such as

Protip: Mario can squash Goombas flat if he jumps on their heads.

Edit: Or at least they did, I haven't read the thing in years. It might have gotten more intelligent lately, but considering the last time I checked they featured the fuckin' Family Guy game on the cover, I doubt it.

So on their website the formatting is just a gray caption underneath the picture. Is that how it is in print?

The answer thou seek'st may be found here, young squire: http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2006/11/20/protip/

EDIT: Wait, did you mean the current version? Because I know exactly 0 people who have opened that magazine in the past decade.

TubaFrog

cloudeagle wrote: »

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

cloudeagle wrote: »

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

Uh, anyone have a link to a good example of the use of

protip: blah blah blah

from whatever magazine uses that? I need to steal the formatting.

Gamepro does it all the time whenever they print some usually obvious and brain-dead "tip" for a game to pad out a review.

Such as

Protip: Mario can squash Goombas flat if he jumps on their heads.

Edit: Or at least they did, I haven't read the thing in years. It might have gotten more intelligent lately, but considering the last time I checked they featured the fuckin' Family Guy game on the cover, I doubt it.

So on their website the formatting is just a gray caption underneath the picture. Is that how it is in print?

Er. Finding a Penny Arcader who actually reads Gamepro on a regular basis could be a tall order, since the rag is pretty insulting to your intelligence.

Gamepro? :oops: I never subscribed to this thing (I swear!) but it arrives regularly. (A "gift" from a relative?) I usually casually flip through it once then it sits on the counter for a while. From what I have seen the writing is terrible and everything seems like a big pay-off.

So I just scanned through a copy I had buried under papers on my desk, an issue from earlier this year, and I don't see the "pro-tip" thing anywhere; Maybe they don't do it anymore?

The_Scarab

darleysam wrote: »

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

Speaking of MGS, the gaf thread might not have so many meltdowns this month. The PA comic thread went out of control as MGS and PS3 fans started accusing Gabe and Tycho of being paid to dis MGS. Over 20 were banned.

Wait, PA comic thread on GAF? Nice!

Some of us started posting them. Kinda wish I had made this one, 25 bannings and complete mod lockdown is nice.

The depths of insanity of MGS fans is beyond me.