March NPD Predictions

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You're going to be waiting a while... Data for March NPD covers March 3- March 31 since Feb covered Feb 3- March 3. The good thing is the NPD months are aligned again, so none of this crap like when January covered the last day of Dec, Jan, and a few days of Feb. Data is released two thursdays after the NPD period ends. Look for it on April 12, 2007. "The Wedbush Morgan report revealed that, through February 2007, U.S. cumulative hardware sales for Xbox 360 were 5.1 million units, Wii 1.9 million units, and PS3 1.1 million units" http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13163 Wii - 350,000 (2.25 million through the 3/31) DS - 320,000 PS2 - 295,000 360 - 245,000 (5.345 million through 3/31) PSP - 210,000 GBA - 200,000 PS3 - 185,000 (1.285 million through 3/31) GC - 18,000 Xbox - 200 A couple expectations: - PS3 will get some help from Motorstorm. But, the question is how much - God of War 2 will be the best seller - Not a great month for software - Software has a couple wildcards...like SSX Blur, DDR 360 Top 20 software.. 1) God of War 2 (PS2) 1,100,000 (very impressive for releasing mid month) 2) Wii Play (Wii) 300,000 3) Crackdown (360) 280,000 4) Def Jam (360) 260,000 5) Tiger Woods (Wii) 245,000 6) MLB 2K7 (360) 230,000 7) Diddy Kong Racing (DS) 210,000 8) Guitar Hero 2 (PS2) 180,000 9) Gears of War (360) 145,000 10) Twilight Princess (Wii) 120,000 11) Motor Storm (PS3) 110,000 12) SSX Blur (Wii) 100,000 13) Lost Planet (360) 90,000 14) Nintendogs (DS) 80,000 15) New Super Mario Brothers (DS) 75,000 16) Sonic & The Secret Rings (Wii) 70,000 17) Resistance: Fall of Man (PS3) 60,000 18) Warioware: Smooth Moves (Wii) 50,000 19) Twilight Princess (GC) 40,000 20) Brain Age (DS) 35,000 Top 20: Wii - 6 360 - 5 DS - 4 PS2 - 2 PS3 - 2 GC - 1 GBA - 0 PSP - 0 Xbox - 0