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Very nice list! Need some help?

Best sellers of 2008 (not totally exact numbers, as I had to subtract rounded numbers and such. May also be incomplete):

1. Wii Sports:8.7M

2. MKWii: 6.4M

3. Brawl: 6.3M

4. GTA IV: 5.7M 

5. Wii Fit - 4.8M

5. Wii Play: 4.5M

6. GTA IV - 4.2M 

7. MGS 4 - 2.6M

More Brain Training - 2.5M 

Mario & Sonic - 2.5M 

Brain Training - 2.4M 

8. Mario & Sonic: 2.2M

New Super Mario Bros - 2.2M 

Mario Kart DS - 2.1M 

9. CoD 4 - 2.1M 

Nintendogs - 2.0M 

10. Galaxy: 1.9M

(11) Pokemon Diamond/Pearl - 1.9M

12. Assassins Creed - 1.8M 

13. GT5P - 1.7M 

14. GHIII: 1.6M 

Mario Party DS - 1.6M 

15. Bioshock - 1.5M 

Imagine:Babies 

16. CoD 4 - 1.4M

17. MP8: 1.2M

18. DMC 4- 1.2M 

19. Link's Crossbow: 1.2M

Pokemon Mystery dungeoun 2 - 1.2M 

20. GHIII - 1.1M 

21. DMC 4 - 1.1M 

22. Carnival games: 1.0M

Sight Training - 1.0M 

23. Halo 3: 1M 

 

Wii has 11 1M + sellers for 2008. X360 has 8 1M + sellers, and Ps3 has 5 1M+ sellers.

 

1 of the Ps3 titles launched before 2008, and 4 of them were released in 08.

4 of the X360 titles were launched before 2008, 4 of them were released in 08.

9 of the Wii titles, 2 of them were released in 08.

 

The Wii 1M+ titles saw total sales of 39.8M. If you take out Wii Sports (which is moronic like hell to take out), 31.1M

The X360 saw 15.2M

The Ps3 saw 11.1M

Ps360 saw 26.3M, so Wii has actually outsold Ps360 software wise for 2008.

 

Okay, new info. Nutboy has added some info on what the 2007 sales are (here: http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=35619), and I thought I'd add some info here too. 

For the full 2008 these were the software sales of the consoles (1.5M + only sellers).

Wii: 41.6M, without Wii Sports 27.6M. With Wii Sports, it has sold almost as much, without, it has sold more than 15% more already! It is likely to have sold close to 225% more with Wii Sports, and close to 250% without it!

X360: Has sold 55% of what it sold in 2007 already. Is likely to sell about 130% or more this year.

Ps3: Has already sold more than 20% more than it did in 2007! Could sell close to 300% more this year.

 

 

 

 



http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261

That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS

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Thanks Oyv. You're now officially a co-writer of this thread. If you want to of course.

Help me update every 2 weeks.

If anybody else want to add something, that's also awesome!



Nutboy said:
Thanks Oyv. You're now officially a co-writer of this thread. If you want to of course.

Help me update every 2 weeks.

If anybody else want to add something, that's also awesome!

 

 Motorstorm is at 3.3 not 2.96 and cod4 is at 3.4



 

Barozi said:
Nutboy said:

10. Mario Party 8 - 5.31M

11. Gears of War - 5.30M

 

Actually it's more like:

10. Gears of War - 5.30M

11. Mario Party 8 - 5.29M

 

 

 

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Excellent list. Reminds me to update one of my own.

Something else that needs to be fixed. They seem to be slightly out of order.



Pokemon Blue Rescue team - 3.10M

18. Motorstorm - 2.96M

19. GHIII: Legends of Rock - 3.19M

20. GHIII: Legends of Rock - 3.00M

21. Resistance - 2.96M



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Thanks Viper. The probel was that I miswrote Motorstorm's number.

Thinking about adding best sellers for 2007, and maybe for each quarter.



Oyvoy: Can you show me how Madden sold 1.8 mil in 08 alone. It had already done 1.5 mil by then end of 07 at the least and only totals 2.32



Hi, this is Vince with Shamwow.

Oh, I'm sure he'll correct that when he's back online. Thanks for telling!



Corrected it. I'm in a hurry, so numbers aren't updated yet. Thanks for telling quarashi.



http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261

That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS

disolitude said:
You can take out:

Wii Sports
Wii Play
Forza 2
Marvel UA
Motostorm

Those games have the curse of being bundle packages and as such their sales blood is no longer pure.

the only one I agree should not count is Marvel UA.... that game had stopped selling at like 450k before it was bundled.... It would not even be a million seller.

 

WiiSports has sold 3.2 million in Japan... so it should be on there...

Forza would have sold around 2 million without the bundle, it is inflated but at least deserves to be on there. Wii Play is a hard one to judge... technically ever person who bought was willing to pay 10 for it... I think the game would have sold 3-4 million by now if it was alone and selling for 19.99 or 29.99.

Motorstorm is a tricky one... no comment because I am not sure about it.

 



End of 2009 Predictions (Set, January 1st 2009)

Wii- 72 million   3rd Year Peak, better slate of releases

360- 37 million   Should trend down slightly after 3rd year peak

PS3- 29 million  Sales should pick up next year, 3rd year peak and price cut