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dolemit3 on 14 February 2008
Bodhesatva said:
Another really important point: Call of Duty 4 on the 360 actually has better legs than the vaunted Mario. Not only did it outsell it for the third month in a row, it actually grew its lead this month on a preportional basis, outselling SMG by nearly 50 percent.

 What's even more unreal is that RockBand 360 outsells SMG.



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gitanil on 14 February 2008
dolemit3 said:
Bodhesatva said:
Another really important point: Call of Duty 4 on the 360 actually has better legs than the vaunted Mario. Not only did it outsell it for the third month in a row, it actually grew its lead this month on a preportional basis, outselling SMG by nearly 50 percent.

What's even more unreal is that RockBand 360 outsells SMG.


 No it didn't.

 "Guitar Hero III for Wii was number three with another 240,000 in sales. Super Mario Galaxy was number four with another 172,000 sold. Xbox 360's Rock Band was number five with 171,000 in sales. Guitar Hero 3 for Xbox 360 (167,000), Burnout Paradise (144,000), Call of Duty 4 for PS3 (139,000), Mario Party DS (138,000) and Mario & Sonic at the Olympics (133,000) rounded out the top 10 best sellers."

Just barely but it did outsell Rock Band  Kinda surprised with Ps3 and DS hardware accuracy though.



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elnino334 on 14 February 2008

At least the 360 sold alot of software heh



naznatips on 14 February 2008

Definitely one of those times where ioi is going to want to get official shipment figures instead of update for NPD. Way too big a difference to just adjust, and the last few times the numbers have been adjusted for NPD they've had to be adjusted BACK after official shipment numbers came in.



TheSource on 14 February 2008

Here are my estimates so far on the differences in totals

 

  VGC US NPD Tot NPD Est % Diff Abs. Val.
Wii 327,000 274,000 295,000 11 11
PS3 202,000 269,000 289,000 -30 30
Xbox 360 287,000 230,000 247,000 16 16
PS2 231,000 264,000 284,000 -19 19
DS 547,000 251,000 270,000 103 103
PSP 269,000 230,000 247,000 9 9
          31.30%

Differences are based on VGC/NPD since NPD has more coverage of stores than we do. 


NPD Total Estimate = NPD USA x 1.075 (to estimate Canada)

Without the massive DS error, the data would be at about the usual 10-15% level of difference (on average) with NPD.

Also, Wii is close enough that it has still passed Gamecube.

Whats interesting is how similar some software is.  But I'm still going through the software. 

 

 



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Kzin on 14 February 2008
gitanil said:
dolemit3 said:
Bodhesatva said:
Another really important point: Call of Duty 4 on the 360 actually has better legs than the vaunted Mario. Not only did it outsell it for the third month in a row, it actually grew its lead this month on a preportional basis, outselling SMG by nearly 50 percent.

What's even more unreal is that RockBand 360 outsells SMG.


No it didn't.

"Guitar Hero III for Wii was number three with another 240,000 in sales. Super Mario Galaxy was number four with another 172,000 sold. Xbox 360's Rock Band was number five with 171,000 in sales. Guitar Hero 3 for Xbox 360 (167,000), Burnout Paradise (144,000), Call of Duty 4 for PS3 (139,000), Mario Party DS (138,000) and Mario & Sonic at the Olympics (133,000) rounded out the top 10 best sellers."

Just barely but it did outsell Rock Band Kinda surprised with Ps3 and DS hardware accuracy though.


 

There seems to be some descrepancies between The simExchange and the IGN article.

 

Rank Title simExchange IGN Article
1 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) 330900 328000
2 Wii Play (Wii) 298100 298000
3 Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) 239600 240000
4 Rock Band (Xbox 360) 183800 171000
5 Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Xbox 360) 182700 167000
6 Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) 172000 172000
7 Burnout Paradise (Xbox 360) 144100 144000
8 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3) 140000 139000
9 Mario Party (DS) 138500 138000
10 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS) 133000 133000

 



dolemit3 on 14 February 2008
gitanil said:
dolemit3 said:
Bodhesatva said:
Another really important point: Call of Duty 4 on the 360 actually has better legs than the vaunted Mario. Not only did it outsell it for the third month in a row, it actually grew its lead this month on a preportional basis, outselling SMG by nearly 50 percent.

What's even more unreal is that RockBand 360 outsells SMG.


No it didn't.

"Guitar Hero III for Wii was number three with another 240,000 in sales. Super Mario Galaxy was number four with another 172,000 sold. Xbox 360's Rock Band was number five with 171,000 in sales. Guitar Hero 3 for Xbox 360 (167,000), Burnout Paradise (144,000), Call of Duty 4 for PS3 (139,000), Mario Party DS (138,000) and Mario & Sonic at the Olympics (133,000) rounded out the top 10 best sellers."

Just barely but it did outsell Rock Band Kinda surprised with Ps3 and DS hardware accuracy though.

Yes, it did. IGN got their numbers messed up.

360 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION (CORP) NOV 2007 MATURE (M) 1 330.9K

WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA FEB 2007 EVERYONE (E) 2 298.1K

WII GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK W/ WIREACTIVISION (CORP) OCT 2007 TEEN (T) 3 239.6K

360 ROCK BAND SPECIAL ED BUNDLE MTV GAMES/ELECTRONIC ARTS NOV 2007 TEEN (T) 4 183.8K

360 GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK W/ WIREACTIVISION (CORP) OCT 2007 TEEN (T) 5 182.7K

WII SUPER MARIO GALAXY NINTENDO OF AMERICA NOV 2007 EVERYONE (E) 6 172K

360 BURNOUT PARADISE ELECTRONIC ARTS JAN 2008 EVERYONE 10+ (E10+) 7 144.1K

PS3 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION (CORP) NOV 2007 MATURE (M) 8 140K

NDS MARIO PARTY NINTENDO OF AMERICA NOV 2007 EVERYONE (E) 9 138.5K

NDS MARIO AND SONIC: OLYMPIC GAMES SEGA OF AMERICA JAN 2008 EVERYONE (E) 10 133K

 



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Rath on 14 February 2008

Crazy difference for the DS - 100% out is the largest difference I can remember.

Personally I'm actually going to sit out on whats right, the VGC number makes more sense while the NPD number has more sources. We will have to wait for the official numbers to get a good idea.



CrazzyMan on 14 February 2008

LOL.
PS3 DOMINATION over x360 CONFIRMED.
SMG sales DECLINING. LoL. =))

THIS is SO EXCITING. =)) Muahahahahaha! =)))



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2009.04.30 - PS3 will OUTSELL x360 atleast by the middle of 2010. Japan+Europe > NA.


Gran Turismo 3 - 1,06 mln. in 3 weeks with around 4 mln. PS2 on the launch.
Gran Turismo 4 - 1,16 mln. with 18 mln. PS2 on the launch.

Final Fantasy X - around 2 mln. with 5 mln. PS2 on the launch.
Final Fantasy X-2 - 2.4 mln. with 12 mln. PS2 on the launch.

 

1.8 mln. PS3 today(2008.01.17) in Japan. Now(2009.04.30) 3.16 mln. PS3 were sold in Japan.
PS3 will reach 4 mln. in Japan by the end of 2009 with average weekly sales 25k.

PS3 may reach 5 mln. in Japan by the end of 2009 with average weekly sales 50k.
PS2 2001 vs PS3 2008 sales numbers =) + New games released in Japan by 2009 that passed 100k so far

PooperScooper on 14 February 2008
naznatips said:
Definitely one of those times where ioi is going to want to get official shipment figures instead of update for NPD. Way too big a difference to just adjust, and the last few times the numbers have been adjusted for NPD they've had to be adjusted BACK after official shipment numbers came in.

too bad MS is already making excuses of bad sales by claiming shortages. How often have they done that before? I say that just backs up these figures