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Gaming sales got off to a strong start in the US this year, according to NPD Group's figures for the first five weeks of 2007, and it was a similar story north of the border. The industry-tracking firm reported that Canadian retail gaming sales amounted to $79.5 million in January, a 55-percent jump over the January period from the year before. But where the US numbers covered five weeks of sales instead of the usual four, NPD's Canadian numbers only reflect sales during the calendar month of January, so year-over-year comparisons are more relevant. The increase was driven primarily by hardware sales, which more than doubled from $15.2 million to just over $31 million. Nintendo's Wii outpaced all the competition for the month with more than 34,000 units sold. Sony had the second best-selling console of the month, but it wasn't the PlayStation 3. Instead it was the aging PlayStation 2, which posted sales of more than 27,000 units. The PS3 actually finished significantly lower, with fewer than 6,800 units sold. The Xbox 360 nestled itself in between its rivals with sales just over 14,400. On the software side of things, Capcom's Xbox 360 bughunt Lost Planet: Extreme Condition unified the Canada and US January 2007 sales titles, selling more than 15,400 copies. Lost Planet had a little separation from the pack, with WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Wii), The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii), Gears of War (Xbox 360), and New Super Mario Bros. (DS) rounding out the top five in that order, each with sales between 12,000 and 13,000. The GameCube edition of Twilight Princess, the PS2 Guitar Hero 2 bundle, NHL 07 (PS2), Rainbow Six Vegas (Xbox 360), and NHL 07 (Xbox 360) filled out the back half of the top 10. Jan sales up 55% year-over-year Lost Planet 15,400 WarioWare, Zelda, Gears of War, NSMB all 12k-13k Hardware Wii 34,000 PS2 27,000 360 14,400 PS3 6,800 Software Top 10 1. Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (Xbox 360) 2. WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Wii) 3. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii) 4. Gears of War (Xbox 360) 5. New Super Mario Bros (DS) 6. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GCN) 7. Guitar Hero 2 bundle (PS2) 8. NHL 07 (PS2) 9. Rainbow Six Vegas (Xbox 360) 10. NHL 07 (Xbox 360)



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Heh, Canada is such a small market compared to the USA and Japan, or even the UK. Still, 34,000 Wii's sold to a population 34 million people in one month is not bad .1% Compare that 435,000 in America out of 300,000,000 people .145% in January If you do the math for PS3, it would take 50 months at this rate for PS3 to reach 1% of all Canadians... or even..Japan - 127 million people 450,000/127,000,000 = .35% If you believe that recent analyst claim that Wii can reach 33% of all Japanese households, then it has 32 % to go...over say another 60 months. So it would have to sell to .533% of the Japanese public every month...



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TheSource said: Heh, Canada is such a small market compared to the USA and Japan, or even the UK. Still, 34,000 Wii's sold to a population 34 million people in one month is not bad .1% Compare that 435,000 in America out of 300,000,000 people .145% in January If you do the math for PS3, it would take 50 months at this rate for PS3 to reach 1% of all Canadians... or even..Japan - 127 million people 450,000/127,000,000 = .35% If you believe that recent analyst claim that Wii can reach 33% of all Japanese households, then it has 32 % to go...over say another 60 months. So it would have to sell to .533% of the Japanese public every month...
Except that every person does not represent a household ... On average I would suspect you'd find 1 house to have about 3 people in North America, I don't know what it would be in japan ...



This should put to rest the whole Monty-Canada-360 numbers thing. It didnt even crack more than 4% of the USA market. Mexico is probably at around 3%, if not less than that if a country as affluent as Canada doesnt even buy a lot of them.



you have to take in alout of things into consideration there getting alout less shipments then the us so they cant buy as much. wii's are still selling out as fast as there going there. canada does have a very large gaming communitie there total game sale for january sales hit 79 million thats 2.5american dollars per canadian. http://www.gamespot.com/news/6166203.html



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So the Wii is outselling the PS3 five-to-one in Canada?!? Isn't that an even higher ratio than Japan? ...and that's with nobody able to find one in stores...