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Forums - Sales Discussion - The Official December NPD 2008 Thread

psrock on 15 January 2009

besides wii being way overtracked, everything seems in line with vgchartz numbers.



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darthdevidem01 on 15 January 2009

I want LBP Sales NAO!



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dolemit3 on 15 January 2009

The PS3 numbers are actually decent but it means that Sony will have less incentive to make the price cut happen.



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alfredofroylan on 15 January 2009

REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Before 2008, no video game system had ever been purchased by ten million Americans in a single year. But according to independent sales data released today by the NPD Group, the Wii™ console from Nintendo did just that, even during these economic times, with 2008 unit sales of 10.17 million. The Nintendo DS™ portable handheld system came in a close second, with 2008 unit sales of 9.95 million. Each of them broke the previous yearly unit sales record set in 2007 by Nintendo DS with sales of 8.52 million.

Consequently, Wii represented 55% of all next generation home console sales in 2008, while Nintendo DS claimed 72% of all portable system sales in 2008.

“Our type of entertainment has now moved to the point where there is no longer a question that if you offer consumers an expanded definition of what a video game can be, and deliver that idea with quality and affordability in mind, millions of new people will start playing video games,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “Concepts like Wii Fit, Guitar Hero, and Rock Band never would have seemed feasible just a few years ago, and now they’re driving growth for our the entire industry.”

NPD data released for December and all of 2008 also included the following:

* The industry’s top 4 selling games of 2008 were: Wii Play™ at No. 1, Mario Kart™ Wii at No. 2, Wii Fit™ at No.3, and Super Smash Brothers™ Brawl, at No. 4.
* Industry annual revenues jumped 19% in 2008 over 2007, and Nintendo products were responsible for 99% of those additional retail dollars.
* Nintendo DS set another industry record for system sales in any month, with 3.04 million units sold in December.
* Wii broke its own monthly record, set in December 2007, by selling 2.14 million units last month.
* In December, Nintendo titles filled 20 of the top 30 spots on the best-seller list. Six games made for Nintendo systems placed in the top 10, including Wii Music™ for Wii (No. 9), which has now sold 865,000 units following its launch in October 2008, and Mario Kart DS for the Nintendo DS (No. 7), which has sold a total of 4.3 million units 38 months after launch.
* Activision’s Guitar Hero® III: Legends of Rock and Guitar Hero® World Tour, and MTV Games/EA’s* Rock Band Special Edition Bundle all sold more units on Nintendo platforms than any other platforms in 2008.
* More 3rd party units were sold for Wii than any other home consoles in December for the 2nd consecutive month.
* For the year, more than 132 million games were sold in America for play on Nintendo systems.

Yes.... they did that cake.



NJ5 on 15 January 2009

-argh, alfredofroylan beat me to it!

That pie chart is much beyond pacman.

 



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Khuutra on 15 January 2009

Holy shit at that pie chart.



TWRoO on 15 January 2009
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Racers are selling, did you not notice Mario Kart Wii?

Now name a second one.

Next one down is Forza, but that had a lot of bundle help... then MotorSport, also heavily bundled, and Gran Turismo, another bundle game (but not so heavyly.

Without the bundles I think racing games this gen would go:

14 million - Mario Kart Wii

2.5 million - Forza 2
2.4 million - Motorstorm
2.4 million - GT5p

(of course adding together NFS games I think one of them comes to around 3-4 million, but still dwarfed by MKWii)

 



NJ5 on 15 January 2009
Khuutra said:
Holy shit at that pie chart.

Unfortunately it's hard to read the caption. It's revenue growth (god, my eyes).

 



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Mendicate Bias on 15 January 2009
DMeisterJ said:
Hyruken said:
DMeisterJ said:
FishyJoe said:
Nintendo and Activision make up 80% of the top 10. While Left 4 dead did better than expected, EA still got left in the dust. Not having RB2 for the Wii ready was inexcusable.

Considering how good RB1 (and GH: WT) was selling on the Wii, it was stupid.

Also, GH: WT may have finally put the nail in the coffin of the Wii/3rd party argument.

@ hyruken

No it's not good, but you act like the drop was like fifty percent or something. Don't sensationalize. It's worrying, but not life-or-death like you're coming across.

As I said, stop sensationalizing.

Dude no offence but 9% is a MASSIVE drop. If it happened at any other time of the year then what you say would be true. But it wasen't. It was at the time of the year where majority of people buying a console will buy one such is how the holidays work. Is it normal that a console in its 3rd holiday drops that far? Not if you compare it to history it is not.

Sensationalizing would be to say something like "PS3 is dead", that is not what i said nor what i implied. It is the knock on effect of that is what is worrying. As i said Sony will have no option now but to do 1 of 2 things, either accept that in US at least they will not get 1st place and now looks very unlikely will come 2nd. The gap is now 8.34M in US between the PS3 and the 360. Or do a price cut and hope sales pick up. If they do that they risk losing many more billions because as Joe mentioned PS3 sales for games are not even that great. The top PS3 game of the year barely made it onto the list and then still got killed sales wise by the 360 version. That sends out a msg as mentioned that going exclusive on PS3 could be a huge gamble to 3rd party devs. So the PS3 is not doomed, far from it. But MS have played Sony like a bunch of chumps. While Sony are trying to figure out what to do MS have snuck in on their old stronghold of europe and started to make that replicate the american sales. The question as i mentioned becomes how long can Sony let MS beat them week after week in EU and US before saying "this gen is lost"? They have some massive decisions to make. If these numbers were not 9% down, say they were something like 2% Up they would not be under the same pressure to act. The next few weeks will be vital for the PS3 in terms of compeating for 2nd place in US in my view.

I didn't read this.

But it's not that serious to have to write a long drawn out paragraph over a 9 percent drop.

Chill.

 

lol I love how dmeister plays it off like its nothing when he was the one going crazy in the thread before the figures were revealed and probably cares about sales figures more than most. How bout you take the time to reply to his well written post, I'm sure you can find something to spin positive, you always do.



                                           

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Jo21 on 15 January 2009

well it looks like a ps3 price cut may still be lethal afterall =)