The Official December NPD 2008 Thread

[Oyvoyvoyv]

Avinash_Tyagi said:
Racers are selling, did you not notice Mario Kart Wii?

Sure. What do you think the total racer sales on Wii will be? I'd say it's shaping up to be 25-30M for MKWii, and then a 15M or so for the rest. Definitely below 50M, and I see 40M as the likely zone.

Okay, now Ps2. I counted 80M, and it is probably higher due to incomplete data. I'm pretty sure it's close to double of the Wii.

 

Khuutra said:

Oyvoyvoyv said:

It isn't like there's a huge shift though. The difference from Ps2 to this gen is mainly that

1. Racers aren't selling

2. JRPGs aren't selling (or are yet to be released).

 

Shooters, Racers and JRPGs are all the genres in the Ps2's top 15.

Well I mean if you take out two thirds of the genre count then yeah I guess it's not that different.

JRPGs weren't actually huge movers on the PS2, once you got past S-E's big three. Interesting, but people rarely talk about it.

 

My point is pretty horrible.

Ps2 sold ~ 80M racers. (possibly 90M)

GC sold 15-20M

XB sold 25-30M.

 

This gen, Wii will sell ~ 40M

Ps360 has already sold 35M, and considering many of the major racers are left to release, it could easily sell 80M.

 

So the genre overall hasn't dropped. But as the other genres (due to rise in SW sales) have increased, racers are dropping off compared to those.

 

The Ps2's top 20 was

4 shooters

6 racers

5 Square JRPGs

1 Madden

3 movie/series games.

 

 

This gen, it is much more ala the XB.

It had

 

8 shooters (as much as X360 currently has)

3 WRPGs

3 Sports games

4 racers

2 other violence oriented games (no idea what category to put them in).

 

 

That's actually pretty interesting.

 

The GC kind of games (best sellers) are the ones that are now on Wii.

The XB kind of games (best sellers) are the ones that are now on Ps360

The Ps2 kind of games (best sellers) aren't really major on any console right now. Well, maybe PsP.

(DS doesn't really follow any of last gen's, but is more of a completely new type of games, and a N64/Snes mix).