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Forums - Sales - Worldwide Up. Weekly Hardware Chart 08th October 2011.

postofficebuddy on 14 October 2011
cyberninja45 said:
Well according to that Nintendo PR statement from
http://nintendoeverything.com/75878/nintendo-responds-to-september-2011-npd-data/
(this is where source of all those npd sales reports i believe.)

3ds sold 260,000 units for the entire month of September in the U.S.
So thats ~60k a week. So this means Japan Sales of the 3ds were almost the same as the U.S. and Europe have been outselling 3ds by ~20k weekly. This is unprecedented.
So which means if u were to adjust the sales figures weekly for the past month it would look very odd compared to other regions to say the least.

To me the only way to make sense of this is to call BS on that "PR" statement and the 3ds actually sold 360,000 as reported here:
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/13/september-npd-madden-gears-dead-island-are-hits/2#comments

This makes more sense because I would assume to overtrack by ~>120,000 is not possible. Unless something is really wrong with vgchartz.


It's not that unprecedented to have a handheld selling more in Japan than in America. DS was regularly selling over 100k per week in Japan back in 2006. Random week:

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly.php?reg=Japan&date=38858



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Allfreedom99 on 14 October 2011

Good numbers for 3DS, PS3, and X360. It will be exciting to see the sales during the holiday season. Thats always a fun time for sales.




germibobi on 14 October 2011

China is a huge market, why don't they have a chart for China(or are video games there banned or something)?



Alby_da_Wolf on 14 October 2011
cyberninja45 said:

Well according to that Nintendo PR statement from
http://nintendoeverything.com/75878/nintendo-responds-to-september-2011-npd-data/
(this is the original source of all those npd sales reports i believe.)

3ds sold 260,000 units for the entire month of September in the U.S.
So thats ~60k a week. So this means Japan Sales of the 3ds were almost the same as the U.S. and Europe have been outselling 3ds by ~20k weekly. This is unprecedented.
So which means if u were to adjust the sales figures weekly for the past month it would look very odd compared to other regions to say the least.

To me the only way to make sense of this is to call BS on that "PR" statement and the 3ds actually sold 360,000 as reported here:
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/13/september-npd-madden-gears-dead-island-are-hits/2#comments

This makes more sense because I would assume to overtrack by ~>120,000 is not possible. Unless something is really wrong with vgchartz.

Maybe 3DS was overshipped before the price cut and sold not only successively shipped units, but leftovers too after it. But to be able to know for sure, we should know total lifetime shippings region by region, and compare them with lifetime sales to end user on VGC, if those data are available, it should be easy.



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Blood_Tears on 14 October 2011

Great PS3 sales.



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maverick40 on 14 October 2011

BOOM!!! Ps3 ahead of 360 worldwide again!



Declan on 14 October 2011

I'll be interested to see if next week's data shows what may be the Wii's biggest release of the year (Just Dance 3, first full week in Europe and Americas) accompanied by a negligible hardware spike. I've noticed that the launch of multi-million selling games on the Wii rarely boost hardware sales in the way that similarly selling titles do on the HD systems.



hatmoza on 14 October 2011

Damn, did not expect PS3 to top 360 so soon. It's amazing all the feats 360 accomplishes with NPD only to be defeated when it is compared to other consoles on a global level. It's not fair I tell ya!



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4k1x3r on 14 October 2011

Can we assume PS3 is still over 200k?



cyberninja45 on 14 October 2011
postofficebuddy said:
cyberninja45 said:
Well according to that Nintendo PR statement from
http://nintendoeverything.com/75878/nintendo-responds-to-september-2011-npd-data/
(this is where source of all those npd sales reports i believe.)

3ds sold 260,000 units for the entire month of September in the U.S.
So thats ~60k a week. So this means Japan Sales of the 3ds were almost the same as the U.S. and Europe have been outselling 3ds by ~20k weekly. This is unprecedented.
So which means if u were to adjust the sales figures weekly for the past month it would look very odd compared to other regions to say the least.

To me the only way to make sense of this is to call BS on that "PR" statement and the 3ds actually sold 360,000 as reported here:
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/13/september-npd-madden-gears-dead-island-are-hits/2#comments

This makes more sense because I would assume to overtrack by ~>120,000 is not possible. Unless something is really wrong with vgchartz.


It's not that unprecedented to have a handheld selling more in Japan than in America. DS was regularly selling over 100k per week in Japan back in 2006. Random week:

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly.php?reg=Japan&date=38858

Thats not a random week, thats the ~week NSMB launched. There were crazy fluctuations around those times. e.g. america went crazy couple weeks after for some reason  http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly.php?reg=America&date=38879 ( maybe america were slow on NSMB? dunno.)
But right now their isnt  any kind of software to cause such spikes in random regions, if Monster hunter or Super mario 3d land were out,  maybe.



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