The November NPD Thread (USA data for 4 weeks ending Nov 29 in 6 hours)

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Khuutra said:

FishyJoe said:

Pachter's response:

http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/12/11/nintendo-wii-officially-recession-proof/

Analysts were taken by surprise by how well the $249 console has performed in a flagging economy. “Two million? You sure? This is mind-boggling,” said Michael Pachter, a top industry analyst for Wedbush Morgan Securities. “At least Nintendo is meeting demand.”

Pachter says it’s because people are now choosing a Wii over a latte. “There’s a solid middle class that’s going to make substitutions to buy games. Now it’s buy a Wii and don’t eat out for a month, or don’t take that ski trip,” he said. “Or cut out Starbucks.”

Pachter is a silly, silly man. This isn't meeting demand. Not quite.

Seriously though is this the highest November in the US ever?

Pretty sure.

VGChartz would have adjusted if NPD had a large U.S month for 2002 (Ps2's highest). No doubt about it, as by those numbers and such is where VGChartz recieved the data from that time (or at least checked it up against).

 

Ps2 9th November to 30th November 2002: 1496K (Americas, not U.S).

 

 

GBA has 1439K for 8th to 29th 2003.

DS had the 1st place with 1629K in 07 (1.53M in NPD).

 

Wii smoked them all!