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FishyJoe on 17 January 2008

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j1UP6PnQ2YtCvWZMoV3Gms2ZAtLw

Canadian video game sales hit a record $1.5 billion in 2007

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TORONTO - The Canadian video game industry rang up a record $1.5 billion at the cash register in 2007, up 56 per cent from the previous year.

The figures, as reported Thursday by the NPD Group which tracks the industry, follow sales of $933 million in 2006, which in itself was a 22 per cent rise from the year before. Those totals include hardware, software and accessories

Nintendo, which continues to enjoy great demand for its Wii console and strong interest in its portable DS, accounted for 10 of the top-20 selling games in 2007. The Wii "Play" game, which came with a remote, was the No. 1 game of the year, consigning "Halo 3" for the Xbox 360 to second place.

Xbox had six 360 games in the top 20 while PlayStation had four, all for the PS2. Four of the top 20 games were part of the "Guitar Hero" family.

"Super Mario Galaxy" for the Wii was third, followed by "Pokemon Diamond"for the Nintendo DS and "Guitar Hero 3" for the PlayStation 2. The rest of the top 10 featured "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" for the Xbox 360, "New Super Mario Bros" for the DS, "Guitar Hero 2" for the 360, "Mario Party 8" for the Wii and "Brain Age 2" for the DS.

Ubisoft's made-in-Montreal "Assassin's Creed" for the Xbox 360 finished the year at No. 12.

Hockey games, which often dominate the Canadian sales charts, had to settle for No. 14 and 17 - both versions of EA's made-in-Canada "NHL 08."

The top-selling game in December was "Super Mario Galaxy" for the Wii.

 



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starcraft on 17 January 2008

That would indicate that the PS3 did not do well in December in Canada.



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--OkeyDokey-- on 17 January 2008

so the NPD numbers in the other thread were north america only? so what thats another 200k + for galaxy in canada last month on top of NA's 1.4 million?

awesome. that means the game is well past 5 million :D already ahead of gears of war.



tokilamockingbrd on 17 January 2008

hmm... maybe this will be enough to make Galaxy the top selling game in all of NA?



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--OkeyDokey-- on 17 January 2008
tokilamockingbrd said:
hmm... maybe this will be enough to make Galaxy the top selling game in all of NA?

possibly. it was only 70k behind cod4 in north america.



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Griffin on 17 January 2008

Do we know when we are going to get the full NPD numbers for Canada.



thekitchensink on 17 January 2008
--OkeyDokey-- said:
so the NPD numbers in the other thread were north america only? so what thats another 200k + for galaxy in canada last month on top of NA's 1.4 million?

awesome. that means the game is well past 5 million :D already ahead of gears of war.

NPD only covers NA.



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Fuzzmosis on 17 January 2008

Go dyslexic reading, I was wondering why the NDP was being talked about here. Oh, you crazy NDP.



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Xponent on 17 January 2008

I'm confused. Does NPD coverage for North America include Canada or not?



brute on 17 January 2008

hm it looks like galaxy did very good this month



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