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TheSource on 14 February 2008

Data should be out in an hour or less, covering sales from January 6 to February 2

Platform

2-Feb

26-Jan

19-Jan

12-Jan

Total

Wii

92,217

114,412

61,761

58,639

327,029

PS3

53,443

50,561

45,256

52,527

201,787

Xbox 360

65,837

71,414

65,537

83,932

286,720

PS2

55,828

57,161

57,226

60,492

230,707

DS

148,927

150,058

137,353

111,050

547,388

PSP

66,075

67,545

63,455

71,639

268,714


We have the above totals here at VGC for the USA and Canada.

What do you expect?  Were the shortages accurately captured? etc.

Top Software on VGC:

 

 

Title

Platform

Sales

1

Super Mario Galaxy

Wii

332,511

2

Call of Duty 4

Xbox 360

302,516

3

Guitar Hero III: LoR

PS2

288,618

4

Wii Play

Wii

250,965

5

Assassin's Creed

Xbox 360

210,936

6

Halo 3

Xbox 360

204,529

7

Guitar Hero III: LoR

Xbox 360

198,133

8

Mario Party DS

DS

180,202

9

Guitar Hero III: LoR

Wii

179,393

10

Link's Crossbow Training

Wii

175,384

My article on NPD January expectations is still on the front page for anyone interested. 



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dajeff on 14 February 2008

I think Wii hardware will be spot on, 360 too high, PS3 will be good, DS is too high. Nothing looks undertracked.

Software- Could be undertracked, but we will see...



JGarret on 14 February 2008

I expect we´ll keep seeing the usual.

Wii 1st
XB360 2nd
PS3 3rd



Xyrax on 14 February 2008

News from Matt, early info:

"For the month, Wii was the winner. Barely. Guess who was number two? I'll give you a hint: It wasn't Microsoft. Indeed, 360 was technically the worst seller of the month, although the race is close.

Matt"

If Wii was barely the winner over PS3 then VGC numbers might be pretty far off this month.



outlawauron on 14 February 2008

Source, do you think we got the CoD 4 numbers right this month? We're wrong for Nov. and Dec.



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koffieboon on 14 February 2008

It could just be outselling DS instead of PS3. We should know for sure in about 30 minutes.



Neos on 14 February 2008
Xyrax said:
News from Matt, early info:

"For the month, Wii was the winner. Barely. Guess who was number two? I'll give you a hint: It wasn't Microsoft. Indeed, 360 was technically the worst seller of the month, although the race is close.

Matt"

If Wii was barely the winner over PS3 then VGC numbers might be pretty far off this month.

 i dont think he means the ps3..i think he means the psp



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celine on 14 February 2008
Xyrax said:
News from Matt, early info:

"For the month, Wii was the winner. Barely. Guess who was number two? I'll give you a hint: It wasn't Microsoft. Indeed, 360 was technically the worst seller of the month, although the race is close.

Matt"

If Wii was barely the winner over PS3 then VGC numbers might be pretty far off this month.

 So 2nd is PS3 or PSP or DS ( depend if he consider all hardware or only home-console ). 



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PooperScooper on 14 February 2008

Lol HAHAHAHAHA weird....

I thought those WERE npd numbers. I was so confused I was like "VGC has the same exact numbers NPD had wtf"



Avinash_Tyagi on 14 February 2008
Xyrax said:
News from Matt, early info:

"For the month, Wii was the winner. Barely. Guess who was number two? I'll give you a hint: It wasn't Microsoft. Indeed, 360 was technically the worst seller of the month, although the race is close.

Matt"

If Wii was barely the winner over PS3 then VGC numbers might be pretty far off this month.

 As we saw in December, NPD isn't always accurate



 

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