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Forums - Sales Discussion - The Official NPD April 2008 Thread

Xiru on 15 May 2008
Kenology said:
RolStoppable said:
This means we are in for another furious anti-Wii month?

 They'll be too busy eating their crow to say much after last month's fiasco.  Though I do hope to hear more Wii Doomsday, there's not much they can say when Wii sold so much in the face of GTAIV and Mario Kart beat PS3 GTAIV.

 If they do decide to hate, it'd be fun to watch.


I'll bite, Wii is not doomed but I will point out that its best selling titles are old franchises that were available on most Nintendo systems before it. Wii will sustain just like the Gamecube did. 1st party all the way. Until we start seeing some big 3rd party games in the top 20, developers will be dubious toward making big titles for the Wii. Wii is a phenominal seller, the best in gaming history, but 3rd parties still prefer 360/PS3. I don't see this changing anytime soon. Also, Wii has 2.5x the install base of the PS3 and MK barely outsold GTA4.



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kingofwale on 15 May 2008

hmmm... i'm getting conflecting reports. what the hell?



Soriku (Feb 10/08): In 5 years the PS3/360 will be dead.

KH3 bet: "If KH3 comes to Wii exclusive, I will take a 1 month of sig/avatar by otheres open a thread apologize and praise you guys' brilliance." http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=50&id=18379
Original cast: Badonkadonkhr, sc94597 allaboutthegames885, kingofwale, Soriku, ctk495, skeezer, RDBRaptor, Mirson,

Episode 1: OOPSY!
selnor: Too Human I even expect 3-4 mill entire life and 500,000 first day. GoW2 ( expect 7 - 9 million entire life and over 2 mill first day), Fable 2 (expect 5-6 million entire life and 1.5 mill fist day) BK3 (expect 4 - 5 mill sales entire life and 1 mill first day).. Tales/IU/TLR should get to 2 or 3 million! post id: 868878
Episode 2:
Letsdance: FFXIII (PS3+360) first week in NA = 286K
According to pre-order rate in week 13 (post id: 2902544)
carlos710 on 15 May 2008

lol, 360 wins by 1k =P

seems like 360 and specially the ps3 were greatly overtracked this month by vgchartz.

However the biggest new here is the Wii outselling by a large margin the 360+Ps3 combo, despite the release of their biggest game in the whole generation!



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FishyJoe on 15 May 2008

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/category.asp?blogID=17&category=34

It doesn't get much closer than this: Microsoft's Xbox 360 beat out the PlayStation 3 in U.S. console sales for April, but only by a whisker -- 188,000 units to 187,100 units, according to NPD Group data released this afternoon. As reported here earlier today, Nintendo's Wii dominated the market again, with 714,200 units sold.

The month included the April 29 launch of "Grand Theft Auto IV," and the Xbox 360 version of the game was the top-selling title for the month, with 1.85 million units of the game sold for the Microsoft console. The PlayStation 3 version of GTA IV sold an even 1 million units.

NPD analyst Anita Frazier had this to say in an e-mail accompanying the data: "It was surprising not to see bigger hardware sales for the Xbox 360 and the PS3 given the release of GTA IV. However, since the game was only in the market for 5 days during this reporting period, that sales lift could very well be evident in May data."



dolemit3 on 15 May 2008

GT5:P flopped



Currently playing on PS3: God of War III

Currently playing on Xbox360: Final Fantasy XIII

Currently playing on NDS: Chrono Trigger

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DOATS1 on 15 May 2008

nintendo have so owned this generation.




w3stfa11 on 15 May 2008

Does NPD release the numbers on their site? If so, where should I be looking? Or do you guys just wait until other outlets release the information (IGN, Gamespot, Neogaf?)



Hi there.

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Video_Game_Sales - A wiki for video game sales figures

Kenology on 15 May 2008
Videogirl said:

No

 


 lol!  There must've been a ripple in time and space!



dabaus513 on 15 May 2008

Ps3 lost by 1k, not bad but not good either.



 

 

 

bluesinG on 15 May 2008

Good god, y'all!