While Wii sales more than doubled from the 981,000 units Nintendo sold in November last year, monthly PlayStation 3 sales dropped. Despite it commanding a much stronger software line-up, Sony saw PS3 sales decline from 466,000 last November, to just 378,000 this November. The company's previous generation platform also dropped considerably, moving just 206,000 compared to 496,000 units during the same month last year.
Microsoft's hardware sales jumped from November 2007, but not by such a wide margin. It sold 770,000 in November last year, with 836,000 this year.
On the portable front, over 1.57 million Nintendo DSs were sold in the U.S. last month, almost four times the amount of PSPs sold by Sony.
• Wii - 2,040,000
• Nintendo DS - 1,570,000
• Xbox 360 - 836,000
• PSP - 421,000
• PlayStation 3 - 378,000
• PlayStation 2 - 206,000
Total hardware sales amounted to $2.91 billion for the month, up 10% from November of 2007.
"The expanded supply of Wii systems at retail was clearly evident in the sales figures this month," Anita Frazier, analyst for the NPD Group noted. "The 360 realized a nice unit sales bump over last November and the PS3 year-to-date unit sales growth is impressive."
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VGChartz preview:
NPD will report its figures for the USA videogame market for the four weeks ending November 29 in about six hours. Microsoft's boss just said he expected Xbox 360 to top PS3 2:1 in November...and given that NPD releases data to clients who pay for early data on Wednesdays you have to figure thats about what the NPD data shows. Remember to scale down the Americas data by 0.9 for our USA estimates. The *ed figures include games packaged with holiday bundles, see the link below to see what games were in the top ten not including the seasonal bundles.
http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2633
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Game |
Platform |
Publisher |
Americas Sales |
1 |
Gears of War 2 |
X360 |
Microsoft |
2,268,041 |
2 |
Call of Duty: World at War |
X360 |
Activision |
1,627,945 |
3 |
Wii Fit |
Wii |
Nintendo |
889,128 |
4 |
Call of Duty: World at War |
PS3 |
Activision |
671,615 |
5 |
Wii Play |
Wii |
Nintendo |
509,137 |
6 |
Mario Kart Wii |
Wii |
Nintendo |
468,757 |
7 |
Resistance 2 |
PS3 |
Sony |
408,289 |
8 |
Lego Indiana Jones: ToA* |
X360 |
Lucas Arts |
356,116 |
9 |
Left for Dead |
X360 |
EA |
355,911 |
10 |
Kung Fu Panda* |
X360 |
Activision |
345,953 |
Americas |
8-Nov |
15-Nov |
22-Nov |
29-Nov |
Total |
USA NPD Est |
Wii |
295,388 |
342,927 |
335,757 |
803,956 |
1,778,028 |
1,600,225 |
DS |
175,280 |
209,263 |
295,766 |
909,924 |
1,590,233 |
1,431,210 |
X360 |
129,524 |
150,361 |
190,250 |
477,956 |
948,091 |
853,282 |
PSP |
65,063 |
72,386 |
86,236 |
254,618 |
478,303 |
430,473 |
PS3 |
71,363 |
79,069 |
91,195 |
198,068 |
439,695 |
395,726 |
PS2 |
41,963 |
45,562 |
52,642 |
163,305 |
303,472 |
273,125 |
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