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Forums - Sales Discussion - The Official NPD April 2008 Thread

NPD Data for the four weeks ending May 3 for the USA will be released in ~three hours.

Vgchartz data for the same period and our NPD expectations can be found here

NPD Data:

Hardware
PlayStation 2 124.4K
PlayStation 3 187.1K
PSP 192.7K
Xbox 360 188.0K
Wii 714.2K
Nintendo DS 414.8K

Top 10 VG Titles - April'08 Units*
360 GTA IV 1.85mm
Wii Mario Kart w/ wheel 1.12mm
PS3 GTA IV 1.00mm
Wii Play 360K
Wii Super Smash Bros. Brawl 326K
PS3 Gran Turismo 5: Prologue 224K
DS Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness 202K
DS Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time 202K
Wii Guitar Hero III 152K
360 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 141K

**/1 ………………Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360) Take-Two*
**/2 ……………….Mario Kart (Wii) Nintendo
**/3 ……………….GTA IV (PS3) Take-Two*
4/4 ……………….Wii Play/with remote (Wii) Nintendo
1/5 ……………….Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) Nintendo
**/6 ……………….Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (PS3) Sony
**/7 ……………….Pokemon/Explorers of Darkness (DS) Nintendo
**/8 ……………….Pokemon/Explorers of Time (DS) Nintendo
7/9 ……………….Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) Activision
9/10 ……………….Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (360) Activision*
6/11 ……………….Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP) Square Enix
2/12 ……………….Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (Xbox 360) Ubisoft*
20/13 ………………..Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 (PS2) Namco Bandai
19/14 ………………..Game Party (Wii) Midway
14/15 ………………..Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2) Activision*
18/16 ………………..New Super Mario Bros. (DS) Nintendo
**/17 ………………..Mario Kart (DS) Nintendo
**/18 ………………..Rock Band (Xbox 360) MTV/Electronic Arts*
13/19 ………………..Mario Party (DS) Nintendo
**/20 ……………….Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) Nintendo

VG Chartz Data:

Vgchartz data which covers the Americas, rather than just the USA, shows the following hardware data for the four week period:

Week Ending12-Apr19-Apr26-Apr3-MayTotal
Wii98,964186,66276,608398,710760,944
DS135,644169,235151,872145,047601,798
PS358,20674,67882,652150,934366,470
Xbox 36057,28761,66573,578117,394309,924
PSP88,51173,89570,12475,643308,173
PS251,28537,76437,22742,718168,994

 

Hardware sales for April were largely driven by the two versions of Grand Theft Auto IV, Mario Kart Wii, Pokemon Mysterious Dungeon 2 for DS, and Gran Turismo 5: Prologue for PS3 as can be seen in the top ten software sales below. A number of carry over titles from last month, including Super Smash Brothers Brawl (Wii), Army of Two (Xbox 360), and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6: Vegas 2 (Xbox 360) continued to drive hardware as well. Two holdovers from 2007 also remained in the top ten Call of Duty 4 (Xbox 360), and Wii Play (Wii).


Software TitlePlatformPublisherAmericas Sales
1Grand Theft Auto IVXbox 360Take Two2,317,774
2Grand Theft Auto IVPS3Take Two1,386,032
3Mario Kart WiiWiiNintendo1,231,264
4Super Smash Brothers BrawlWiiNintendo644,744
5Pokemon Mysterious Dungeon 2DSNintendo492,179
6Wii PlayWiiNintendo371,983
7Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Vegas 2Xbox 360Ubisoft289,631
8Gran Turismo 5: ProloguePS3Sony271,925
9Call of Duty 4: Modern WarfareXbox 360Activision262,101
10Army of TwoXbox 360EA218,767



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Oh yeah, forgot that was tonight!



So will GTA IV data be in this or no?



this is going to be very interesting. let me guess, no MS press release means they probably ahead of ps3.



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11/20/09 04:25 makingmusic476 Warning Other (Your avatar is borderline NSFW. Please keep it for as long as possible.)

Actually, MS did a press release yesterday, about beating Wii and PS3 to 10 million.

With a year's head start.



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Few days of GTAIV should be in this. Will be funny to see what MS will say if PS3 sells more then 360 hardware wise.



 
Desroko said:
Actually, MS did a press release yesterday, about beating Wii and PS3 to 10 million.

With a year's head start.

my bad



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11/20/09 04:25 makingmusic476 Warning Other (Your avatar is borderline NSFW. Please keep it for as long as possible.)

WOW I forgot it coming today!!



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So is GTA IV in this data? Also, is MK Wii in this data?



@ darthdevidem, been too busy with other things to think about this?