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Forums - Sales Discussion - The Official May 2009 NPD Thread (Data at 6:30 PM EST)

dolemit3 on 12 June 2009

Top 20:



Currently playing on PS3: God of War III

Currently playing on Xbox360: Final Fantasy XIII

Currently playing on NDS: Chrono Trigger

darthdevidem01 on 12 June 2009

wow TheSource HAS to be disappointed in the post count this NPD thread got



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

dolemit3 on 12 June 2009

Xbox 360 is the undisputed king of FPS genre with Halo 3 and CoD 4 still charting in the top 20.



Currently playing on PS3: God of War III

Currently playing on Xbox360: Final Fantasy XIII

Currently playing on NDS: Chrono Trigger

Ail on 12 June 2009

Go Sacred 2 !!!!!!!!



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

dolemit3 on 12 June 2009
Ail said:
Go Sacred 2 !!!!!!!!

Apparently the number is 80k.



Currently playing on PS3: God of War III

Currently playing on Xbox360: Final Fantasy XIII

Currently playing on NDS: Chrono Trigger

darthdevidem01 on 12 June 2009

PS3 is the undisputed king of action games with Infamous, UFC & X-Men all charting in the top 20!!!!!



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

johnsobas on 12 June 2009
darthdevidem01 said:
PS3 is the undisputed king of action games with Infamous, UFC & X-Men all charting in the top 20!!!!!

360 version of UFC sells more than those 3 combined.



currently playing: Skyward Sword, Mario Sunshine, Xenoblade Chronicles X

Noobie on 12 June 2009
dolemit3 said:

Top 20:

can we get a more numbers.? of other games also. 



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trestres on 12 June 2009
Ail said:
trestres said:

We will have to wait and see before saying Wii sales will get boosted, so far it looks like it's on a downards trend and there's nothing significantly big that could help sales go up again until WSR which comes in late July, so until August sales could be down a lot. Probably the last 5 months of the year will be better, but the following two months could end up being abysmal in YoY comparisons.

Wii
January 2009 679,200
February 2009 753,000
March 2009 601,000
April 2009 340,000
May 2009 289,500
Wii
January 2008 274,000
February 2008 432,000
March 2008 721,000
April 2008 714,200
May 2008 675,100
June 2008 666,700
July 2008 555,000
August 2008 453,000
September 2008 667,000
October 2008 803,000
November 2008 2,040,000
December 2008 2,150,000

Total 10,151,000

 

YoY Jan  +405K units
YoY Feb  +321K units
YoY Mar  -120K units
YoY Apr   -374K units
YoY May  -386K units

2009 YTD  2663K units
2008 YTD  2817K units

YoY Total  -154K units


The trend looks to be a downards one and June could be the worst month of the year so far. June and July will no doubt be down from 2008, but August could be up once again. Then September and October could be also down, but depends on the release date of Wii Fit+. There's, unfortunately, nothing big besides Wii Fit+ until October/November, so sales could be down by 1 million or more until the Holidays. Then it's not very likely for the Wii to outperform November/December 2008. I expect Wii to end at 2 million less than 2008, at around 8 million for the year.


Honestly August and December seem like the only 2 months in the remainder of Nintendo's fiscal year where you can expect/hope that YoY sales will be up. So I don't see how you can expect the Wii to match 2008 numbers.

July will be down less, maybe 100k.

Hard to tell past that but I really don't see Wii Sport Resorts boosting the Wii sales by 100% for several months ( which is what is needed to get back to 2008 level).

June will be down by another 300k probably ( doesn't seem like EA Sport Active or Punch Out had a crazy effect on Wii hardware sales).

So by the end of the first half of the year the Wii will be down 450k.

 

A price cut might help for sure, but seeing Nintendo financials prevision it's doubtfull in 2009 and I'm not sure the Wii is actually viewed as an expensive purchase right now so hard to say how much it would boost sales, definitly not 100%...

 

PS : The situation in the fiscal year(April 2009-March 2010) is even worse.

So far in NA alone sales are down 750k for 2 months. Worldwide they are down 1.7 millions ( VGchartz has 1.6 millions and I added 100k for the difference with NPD in May).

In June sales should be down another 500k worldwide ( Wii sold 1.5 million units in June 2008) to bring the YoY gap around 2.2 millions...

I don't want to get banned so I won't insult you, but give me a FUCKING break. Did you read what I posted or are you just trying to piss me off? Just go away.

When did I ever say I expected Wii sales to match 2008 numbers? Trolling for the sake of it is what you do best, I'm never going to reply to one of your posts again.



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matt247 on 13 June 2009

1. UFC 2009 Undisputed (360) - THQ
2. Wii Fit w/ Balance Board (Wii) - Nintendo
3. EA Sports Active (Wii) - EA
4. UFC 2009 Undisputed (PS3) - THQ
5. inFamous (PS3) - Sony
6. Pokemon Platinum (DS) - Nintendo
7. Mario Kart w/ Wheel (Wii) - Nintendo
8. Punch Out!! (Wii) - Nintendo
9. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (360) - Activision Blizzard
10. Wii Play w/ Remote (Wii) - Nintendo
11. New Super Mario Bros (DS) - Nintendo
12. Mario Kart (DS) - Nintendo
13. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (PS3) - Activision Blizzard
14. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (360) - Activision Blizzard
15. Gardening Mama (DS) - Majesco
16. Sacred 2: Fallen Angel (360) - CDV Software
17. Call of Duty: World at War (360) - Activision Blizzard
18. Rhythm Heaven (DS) - Nintendo
19. Halo 3 (360) - Microsoft
20. Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout (Wii) - Ubisoft